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Comment on 110 by raph

raph — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:43:50 +0000

Indeed. 29/06 marked the 110th anniversary of his birth.

Comment on 110 by Rutger Coucke

Rutger Coucke — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:31:49 +0000

This is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, by Hugo Pratt

Comment on summer productivity by raph

raph — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:35:12 +0000

Yes I was following the Innovator combo… From what I read about the Bird Innovator, the smaller engines were actually mostly to improve airflow and not for performance and I just followed on that, although I guess your suggestion does indeed make more sense as we’re talking about replacing the engines altogether.

Note, I’m not actually an aeronautical engineer, I was just thinking out loud It would be interesting if someone actually got around to put this to a test on a real Catalina some day. I’m pretty sure the airframe could take it. Food for thoughts…

Thank you for the clarification about the Goose, I will edit my text accordingly.

Comment on summer productivity by Dave Marion

Dave Marion — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:45:03 +0000

Why would you mix 550 shp PT6A-6 engines with 1200 shp PT6A-67’s? Just because that combo gives you approximately the same hp configuration as the Bird Innovator? So what! Why not just put four of the same model engine on it? They don’t have to be all 1200 shp engines. You could use four 850 or 1050 shp PT6A engines (-42 or -60 series for example) and still have more total horsepower. It’d be simpler for maintenance and for stocking spare parts. You could always shut down two engines in flight to save fuel – the same way that they shut them down on a US Navy P-3 Orion patrol plane.

By the way, Antilles is NOT building “Grumman G-21 ‘Super Gooses’” – there is no such thing. We’re building Antilles G-21G “Super Gooses” which are based on the McKinnon G-21G “Turbo Goose”. It falls under a completely different type certificate (TC 4A24) than the original Grumman piston-powered Gooses (TC 654).

Comment on winds of change by Mariano

Mariano — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:32:07 +0000

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails

– William Arthur Ward -

Comment on cloud nine by Kolya

Kolya — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:41:49 +0000

Dethtoll would be so proud!
Nice pictures.

Comment on There and back again, by rapho baggins by raph

raph — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:59:04 +0000

Thanks! Yeah I’ve been quite lucky lately

Comment on There and back again, by rapho baggins by Chris Hogarty

Chris Hogarty — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:24:19 +0000

I wish I had the independent means to travel as extensively as you do. Totally jealous looking through some of those pics, especially the ghost town – amazing.