And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Nope. Beech Staggerwing was a biplane with the upper (high) wing behind, rather than in front, of the lower wing. Arguably the Gulfstream/Lear of its time, I hear it was a bear to fly...
Beautiful while you are over here looking at it over there. Flying that thing making a crosswind landing in Amarillo (once the second windiest city in the USA) will make you cuss like a 20 year sailor. The owner flying it said he much preferred his AT-6 landing. En route? Comfy but my feet froze. Powered back at 8500ft we still were doing 175mph at 75 percent power. Amazing machine today, way way past that in the 1930s/40s. My grandparents drove from Austin Tx to Amarillo in a T Model Ford back then. Averaged 10mph and thought they were going too fast.
appears to be photoshopped, but, nonetheless, a beautiful bird
ReplyDeleteNope. Beech Staggerwing was a biplane with the upper (high) wing behind, rather than in front, of the lower wing. Arguably the Gulfstream/Lear of its time, I hear it was a bear to fly...
DeleteActually, easy to fly, a bear to land in even the slightest crosswind. (I've done it). Dude who has it flies it all the time.
Delete175mph in 65% cruise at 8000 ft all day long. It'll go a solid honest 200MPH.
It was WAY ahead of it's time. Equivalent to a Gulfstream for it's day.
Beautiful while you are over here looking at it over there. Flying that thing making a crosswind landing in Amarillo (once the second windiest city in the USA) will make you cuss like a 20 year sailor. The owner flying it said he much preferred his AT-6 landing. En route? Comfy but my feet froze. Powered back at 8500ft we still were doing 175mph at 75 percent power. Amazing machine today, way way past that in the 1930s/40s. My grandparents drove from Austin Tx to Amarillo in a T Model Ford back then. Averaged 10mph and thought they were going too fast.
ReplyDeleteBeech 17. The best looking biplane of all time. The one in the photo or one very similar might be for sale. I see it listed on Trade a Plane.
ReplyDeleteThe bizjet of it's era, one of the best looking propeller driven planes of all time.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I have seen a biplane with an enclosed cabin.
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