Bob Carlton is indeed a very good pilot. He set the airplane down like he has flown it for years. I got a little nervous when he started doing the stalls, but he corrected so quickly, there was not even a hint of him getting into any trouble. What a great airplane. I was remember when Jim Bede first started taking down payments for the Bede 5, and it has taken 40 years to get a finished product. Congratulations to SubSonex. Once again, this airplane is not one for low time pilots, even though they all seem to think they can handle it.
I'm glad that everything is going well for the sonex team, I've been following your videos on UA-cam from the beginning and your boys are doing great things thank you for the insperation for all home built and experimental pilots, this is one of my favorite video thanks again.
@Fuzzy Butkus You won't be getting to the airport in a gyrocopter. They get their power from a pusher prop and yheir lift from the non-connected rotor, that spins with the forward motion of the aircraft. You need a runway of some sort to take off from!
First of all, Bob Carlton an excellent pilot. What no flaps? Touch down @ 75 mph. I totally love this airplane. This is a lot of peoples dream come true. IMO it is for a seasoned pilot, and not appropriate for a low time pilot. That doesn't stop me from saying someone has finally done it. A personal jet that will work well for personal use, and for business. One of the great things is, you can fly your own jet, and doesn't have to cost a million dollars.
the front right door of one of the lowering wheels of the jet to the ground remains open five centimeters, vibrates at high speed or at high altitude and disrupts the control of the jet .. I wish you good agriculture and good model flying successes sonex
That's one of the coolest things I've ever seen. And that's one of the coolest jet engines I've ever seen super awesome. I would love doing maintenance on that thing it wouldn't even be a chore for me.
bye life Grandpa pilot is in very good health. 16000 ft acrobatics and low passages on the runaway with this beautiful jet. I liked it a lot Congratulations old pilot
Last year I flew in a P51 doing barrel rolls at 350 mph. It would do 425 but would burn 50 gallons per hour. I think the configuration is revolutionary however the wing could use some work. Certainly I can picture a cabin with two passengers behind the pilot and the landing gear needs to be a little more beefy. Dave Hansen
At 16,000 feet without oxygen mask he was risking his life in a secondary aspect beyond testing an experimental plane. It appears that the cockpit canopy leaves a good-sized gap at the windshield so that is fresh 16,000 foot air he is breathing.
Takes a lot to impress me, but this has done just that, Its the power unite that impresses me the most, yes, the pilot was good to.Working for a fiberglass company for many years and working a lot on Defence projects, it has eaten through my chest for years to design and make a craft which is similar, but at 68 years old and retired, I think I might have left it a little too late for myself.though I could do it for someone else, I dont think it would be quite the same though.
A few more facts would be of interest: 1 Fuel consumption 2 Engine model & power rating. 3 Rotation speed on take off. 4 Stall speed. 5 Landing speed 6 All up weight limit. 7 Room for parachute (it is an experimental) Thanks for the video.
Just a couple of observations: the TO roll seemed long to me. What are specs? It appeared to be a gap between the canopy and the windshield. Was there? Excellent video. Enjoyed it greatly.
If it was up to me, it'd technically be a turboprop. The turbine engine would be mounted axial to the 12-bladed, ducted variable pitch propeller but would not drive it directly (you're probably thinking, "Great, she's reinvented the geared turbofan and added variable pitch"). Throttling up with the "reverser" stowed would result in prop pitch going from forward beta to an automatically determined optimum pitch, dependent on altitude and estimated power produced. Throttling up with the reverser active would cause the prop to revert through 0 degrees (at which point the leading edges would have about a wallet thickness of clearance between them) into reverse pitch. All this is normal turboprop so far. How do you get air to the engine if the fan in front of it is actively sucking air backwards? Auxiliary air intakes of course. The engine would have a bit of a snorkel sticking out over the cowling, and this would be the main air intake for the compressor when reverse was selected or when separators were selected (since the aux snorkel would have a simple inertial separator). To prevent the exhaust getting recirculated into the propeller and potentially melting a blade or getting into the intake again... I'm thinking the sides of the duct would ramp into the air stream, mostly blocking off the direct intake route but requiring the side intakes to be equipped with inertial separators (or more likely just coarse mesh filters) to prevent FOD to the prop. Or maybe I'd mount the turbine backwards and have the exhaust exit out the side of the cowl like normal turboprops do (but with a longer stovepipe). The idea behind all this unnecessary complexity is to make powerbacks possible and safe. Tell me how stupid I am. Go.
So many questions! I noticed the test pilot wearing a parachute. Again, I am no pilot, but how would you bail out with a V tail and a jet engine directly behind you? I knew an old navy pilot(Korea) that told me they taught you to open the canopy, put your feet on the seat and jump as high as you can, but that can't be easy at 250 mph plus. Also how much fuel does this aircraft consume per hour?
18:14 - What's with the awkward hand angle to pull significantly back on the stick? Is it small for a tall person? Looks like there wasn't enough elbow room to pull back with a more natural hand position?
I still want to see a twin engine version with a H tail configuration that looks like a mini A10 . If you are listening sonex it would be popular i promise.
Why does the N-number keep changing between 12" and 3" ? 18:49 It looks like perhaps the flaps were forgotten in the down position. This means that armed intervention is requested per FAA order 7110.49D.
Wish I could fly, but as a Test Pilot. There's nothing like being free in the skies. Great plane with great abilities by the looks of it. Thanks for the video. It was very informative. Blessings
I got one question.. how much wear and tear can those little wheels take? after all at scale theyre taking alota punshiment for such small amount of rubber.
It seems like the throttle is too high and forward. Is that the only place it would fit, or is it so larger pilots can still reach it? What is the pilot weight limit anyway? Do you think there will be a 2-seater one day?
As I learnt in University - One engine isn't be safe for flights. Will be great if you add second engine. Yes it's more expensive but for safety life of the pilot and resources of work of all engines right decision. And if one engine is malfunction - second takes all work on itself. But I know you know it :) Thanks for video! Good luck and always good weather for flights.
What's more dangerous than single engine plane? A underpowered, worn out training twin that cant even maintain altitude with an engine out. Having trained in a piper seneca, a Bonanza V tail and a debonair - I always felt safer in a single engine. Two engines = twice the burn, twice the trouble and never twice the performance. Low time pilots are far more likely to prang something losing an engine on TO in a small twin than a regular SE training plane like a diamond or C172, in which no thought of trying to go around is entertained with SE failure, your going to settle in, keep in tracking straight and grease her back on. In a poopy piper seminole, a noob pilot will firewall the good engine and maybe make the trees or worse they just stall and roll into the dead engine and faceplant shiny side up. Dead foot dead engine.
I had always said that if someone just gave me a chance to fly an airplane that I could do it, and I was working for an old man that bought a Mooney 201 single engine, four seat plane that was in St. Louis, Mo. We live in Danville Va. and he bought me an airline ticket so I could go with him to St. Louis and get the plane and bring it home. We got rained in for three days and I got what I call the best three days of Ground School a man could buy, if I'd had to pay for it. But on the fourth day it was clear on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains but still raining on the east side, but I told Chyester that heck, we could at least get half way home. We were going to have to stay in a motel room somewhere anyway and he said ok. During the three rained in days I had climbed across and sit in the pilots seat and I taxied the plane around all over the airport. Oh yea. They had sold the airport and the only trafic were a couple of planes going out. Nothing else was coming in so we played all we wanted to. On that day Chester told me to taxi it up to the runway and put her on the white line, which I did, and then after getting clearance to take off from the tower, out of nowhere, with out any warning at all, Chester looked at me and said "You Drive!" Well he caught me slap off guard. I mean totally off guard and I said "No, I don't think so!" The he said "If I tell you to turn her loose, turn her loose!" and with that he shoved the throttle to the fire wall and down the runway we went with me being the pilot. The whole time we had played with the plane on the ground there were two things that he had really beat into my head, and that was, #!:::: The instrument Panels on both sides were identical, and #2::: You don't break ground until you hit 78 knots airspeed. Well, the Pilots instrument panel has the airspeed indicator on the top left corner. But this time, I was in the Co-Pilots seat, and that is the only gauge that isn't on the Co-Pilots instrument Panel. I remembered what he had said about the air speed and started looking for the indicator and it wasn't there. The first thing I new was my right wing tip had drifted over to the center line. Now while on the ground, you drive an airplane with the rudder pedals with your feet. That was a new one for me but I got down hard on the right pedal and as soon as I got the plane back in the center I started looking for the indicator again. The next thing I knew the left wing tip was on the line so I had to get down on the left rudder pedal and all this time we are picking up speed fast. Now as I said, we had been rained in for three days and both side of the runway looked like huge lakes. I had no idea how deep the water was, but after the last course direction change I was now headed for that huge lake on the left and really fast by then. I got down on the right rudder pedal as hard as I could but I simply ran out of room and to start with I "Thought to myself" "F88K it, I'll fight her in the air!" About that time Chester figured out what my problem was and said "65 Knots!" That was when it came to fly or swim and I said out loud with a yell "FU(K IT, I'LL FIGHT HER IN THE AIR" and I pulled the yoke back and away we went. But I pulled it back to ha4rd and a few seconds later the stall light and horn went off and Chester started to push my yoke back down some, but I beat him to it and the light and horn shut up before his hand reached my yoke. I won't get into the rest of the two extremely interesting flights we took that day and the day after getting back home except to say, Short of landing on either of those flights, I flew the plane all the way to Evansville, Indiana the first day, while crossing the great Miss. River 7 different times, and then thinking this old man had no idea where Danville, Virginia was any longer, broke into his brief case that night and laid out a trip to Danville using what is called Distance Measuring Equipment that tells you how far from a radio station you are and flew the plane home, with him constantly telling me to put it back on the heading he wanted to fly at. I didn't know it, because he didn't tell me, but he was trying to take the plane to Greensboro, N. C. to have an annual inspection done. Well, I thought we were coming back home, and we came back home. Martinsville, Va. is dead between Evansville and Danville and I was so happy to see route 220 and the 58 East and West, while on the other hand, Chester Baker was as confused as a football bat. As long as he has been flying, which started when he was 15 years old in a little single seat plane more than a half century ago, he still swears that you can't change a planes direction with nothing but the rudder, but I did. I knew he'd notice if I tipped the wings, even while he was reading the manual the whole flight. That was my first two flights but now I have somewhere close to 300 hours flying the Mooney, a Twin Engine Queen Air he bought a couple years later, I forget what the other one was, but compared to the first two, hat plane seemed as if you were going to grind the seat of your pants off before you ever took off or landed in that one.I hate it when I can't remember something like the name or really the make and model of an airplane. But I can say that he is still the only one ever to teach me anything about flying that I have learned from books on my own. I started building an ultra light airplane about ten years ago but blacked out from paint fumes and I fell from from a make shift scaffold and had to scrap that project for then, and now the fuselage has had rain water in the tubes so I am going to have to start from scratch again, but I am getting ready too. I just have to have my own airplane, even if it is an ultra-light two seat trainer.
A couple of engineers and myself built a small 2 seater jet we call it a JETME, SHE WILL CRUISE AT 415 MILES PER HOUR, WITH A RANGE OF JUST OVER 2000 miles, once we get her to 3500 she will be ready to put in production a child could fly this baby, comes with an emergency chute, already tested comes down like a feather fully loaded, and here's the kicker she lands on the wheels every time, no damage, that was my invention. once we get her able to fly from california to new york on one tank of fuel, we got this, i sure hope this world has room for 1 more billionaire, i feel real lucky about this baby. a jet a child can fly and land, gentleman the future is in anti gravity plates, we are currently trying to get a patient now, not to make her float no we just want to lighten the load , it changes the weight to only 200 lb from 1600 lbs much more than that it becomes unstable, a friend invented them 20 years ago he was afraid the FBI CIA would try and kill him imagine that .
Man I felt as if I was doing the rolls and heavy banks. I miss my flying days and I was doing Crop Dusting and just recreational flying as an amature actually.
It took a sudden dive to the right, which is a really quick way to get into a spin, but he was ready and looked like he even anticipated it. High time pilot in an experimental jet. He handled it like the pro he is. It would be very easy to get in trouble with this airplane. I would have to have a parachute installed.
With this variant, considering the original propellor design was configured for a much lower speed, what structural changes were made to support the higher loads? What distance/ranges are possible with this plane?
Bob Carlton is indeed a very good pilot. He set the airplane down like he has flown it for years. I got a little nervous when he started doing the stalls, but he corrected so quickly, there was not even a hint of him getting into any trouble. What a great airplane. I was remember when Jim Bede first started taking down payments for the Bede 5, and it has taken 40 years to get a finished product. Congratulations to SubSonex. Once again, this airplane is not one for low time pilots, even though they all seem to think they can handle it.
I'm glad that everything is going well for the sonex team, I've been following your videos on UA-cam from the beginning and your boys are doing great things thank you for the insperation for all home built and experimental pilots, this is one of my favorite video thanks again.
Thanks Bob for taking us for a spin in your Little Subsonix plane nice flight sir.....
This aircraft seems to share a lot of concepts with Jim Bede's BD-5J of the 1970s. Nice to see.
David Olie it looks like the original prototype
I was thinkin the same !
I love how simple the cockpit is!
upon stalling the aircraft destabilization comes on quick but just as well the stall recovery time it excellent.
@@SonexLLC I like the way it warns of a stall with it shaking like it does
You know your doing well in life when you can fly something like this!!
Retractable landing gear and a measly 75 MPH landing speed . Respect sent from Vector Technologies .
That main monitor screen really makes the pilot's job look a lot easier. So many functions monitored, it really is a game changer, isn't it?
yes, and cheap ! only an android tablet :-)
Wonderful video! Having been a part of FLY NAVY years ago, this brought back many memories, thank you!!
This jet is super cool. My first purchase after winning the lottery! Second purchase is an AeroVee turbo for my Onex. Great job Sonex!
courage1st I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING!
get a viperjet
Winning the lottery, as if that is really a thing.
Have you seen the BD-10 yet?? It is bad ass and very fast.
@Fuzzy Butkus You won't be getting to the airport in a gyrocopter. They get their power from a pusher prop and yheir lift from the non-connected rotor, that spins with the forward motion of the aircraft. You need a runway of some sort to take off from!
What a awesome video! I felt like I was inboard for that take off roll!
A very good little craft and good airmanship. Well done the team.
Looks like a very nice, smooth flying plane.
I enjoyed this video very much. Especially glad to hear the sights and sounds without any music added as some do,
oh, that cockpit view. Must be a joy to fly.
First of all, Bob Carlton an excellent pilot. What no flaps? Touch down @ 75 mph. I totally love this airplane. This is a lot of peoples dream come true. IMO it is for a seasoned pilot, and not appropriate for a low time pilot. That doesn't stop me from saying someone has finally done it. A personal jet that will work well for personal use, and for business. One of the great things is, you can fly your own jet, and doesn't have to cost a million dollars.
Great pilot and great aircraft.
That's a fantastic airframe ! respect
One word: beautiful!
Wonderful, enjoyed that immensely, kudos to you sir!!
What amazing flying and PERFECT landing!
I thoroughly enjoyed the entire flight and sounds awesome. Keep on Flying !!
great flight - loved the landing - smooth as .. Great vid - thanks!
the front right door of one of the lowering wheels of the jet to the ground remains open five centimeters, vibrates at high speed or at high altitude and disrupts the control of the jet .. I wish you good agriculture and good model flying successes sonex
The size comparison between the engine and body show just how powerful jet engines are.
Note the windscreen is not completely closed and right landing gear not fully retracted.
That's one of the coolest things I've ever seen. And that's one of the coolest jet engines I've ever seen super awesome. I would love doing maintenance on that thing it wouldn't even be a chore for me.
Looks like a blast to fly!
Need to do one as a Heinkel He 162
Heinkel 162 from Germany ww2 is similar design concept, good to see it worked out years later
Thanks for sharing this wonderful moment.
bye life
Grandpa pilot is in very good health.
16000 ft acrobatics and low passages on the runaway with this beautiful jet.
I liked it a lot
Congratulations old pilot
Супер самолет, просто мечта, получил огромное удовольствие от просмотра.
Почему его на высоте 1200 потряхивает?
пилот проверял минимальную скорость сваливания, несколько раз. гдет в пределах 70mph
Fuck Russia
Wow how much power this jet engine have great job.
The aerobatics portion is more unsettling when you realize that he’s in the same compartment as the fuel tank
Amazing aircraft, amazing "Pilot", amazing views, amazing flying stunts, "Amazing" Sir!! 😯😲👌👌👍👍👏👏
A M A Z I N G! Absolutely fantastic!
Great I love it thank you for sharing this experience guys
..awesome! I hope within ten years I can do a microjet of some type.
Last year I flew in a P51 doing barrel rolls at 350 mph. It would do 425 but would burn 50 gallons per hour.
I think the configuration is revolutionary however the wing could use some work. Certainly I can picture a cabin with two passengers behind the pilot and the landing gear needs to be a little more beefy.
Dave Hansen
Thanks for the ride.
At 16,000 feet without oxygen mask he was risking his life in a secondary aspect beyond testing an experimental plane. It appears that the cockpit canopy leaves a good-sized gap at the windshield so that is fresh 16,000 foot air he is breathing.
Amazing aircraft, and very well demonstrated
very impressive - thank you for sharing :)
imteresting !!!!!
Nice what yuh our as
great work!!!!! TOP!!! best regards from Spain
I like the paint scheme and the v shaped tail wings.
Test Pilot Bob Carlton looks to be a veteran in Test Pilot job. Such a confidence level he is got.. Wwaahh..!!
Takes a lot to impress me, but this has done just that, Its the power unite that impresses me the most, yes, the pilot was good to.Working for a fiberglass company for many years and working a lot on Defence projects, it has eaten through my chest for years to design and make a craft which is similar, but at 68 years old and retired, I think I might have left it a little too late for myself.though I could do it for someone else, I dont think it would be quite the same though.
what maintenance is required, hours to rebuild?
Just Awesome! enjoyed every second.
that WAS A BLAST! especially sitting just in front of my big LED TV, WOW! got a little dizzy too.
A few more facts would be of interest:
1 Fuel consumption
2 Engine model & power rating.
3 Rotation speed on take off.
4 Stall speed.
5 Landing speed
6 All up weight limit.
7 Room for parachute (it is an experimental)
Thanks for the video.
A2: TJ100 Turbojet Engine
Now THATS what I call a "good time"
Great video thank you for sharing Australia
Great flight test
The shaking before it stalls; I am surprised. We don’t experience that with RC’s.
Ha, that takeoff roll is ludicrous for a plane that size
Just a couple of observations: the TO roll seemed long to me. What are specs? It appeared to be a gap between the canopy and the windshield. Was there? Excellent video. Enjoyed it greatly.
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TO roll probably is long. One of the the holy grails of VLJ engines is to get similar TO performance to props, the other is to get good fuel economy
The canopy gap might be for a ram air effect at 16K fy. THe right main gear did not seem to be retracting quite as far as the left.
If it was up to me, it'd technically be a turboprop. The turbine engine would be mounted axial to the 12-bladed, ducted variable pitch propeller but would not drive it directly (you're probably thinking, "Great, she's reinvented the geared turbofan and added variable pitch"). Throttling up with the "reverser" stowed would result in prop pitch going from forward beta to an automatically determined optimum pitch, dependent on altitude and estimated power produced. Throttling up with the reverser active would cause the prop to revert through 0 degrees (at which point the leading edges would have about a wallet thickness of clearance between them) into reverse pitch. All this is normal turboprop so far. How do you get air to the engine if the fan in front of it is actively sucking air backwards? Auxiliary air intakes of course. The engine would have a bit of a snorkel sticking out over the cowling, and this would be the main air intake for the compressor when reverse was selected or when separators were selected (since the aux snorkel would have a simple inertial separator). To prevent the exhaust getting recirculated into the propeller and potentially melting a blade or getting into the intake again... I'm thinking the sides of the duct would ramp into the air stream, mostly blocking off the direct intake route but requiring the side intakes to be equipped with inertial separators (or more likely just coarse mesh filters) to prevent FOD to the prop. Or maybe I'd mount the turbine backwards and have the exhaust exit out the side of the cowl like normal turboprops do (but with a longer stovepipe). The idea behind all this unnecessary complexity is to make powerbacks possible and safe.
Tell me how stupid I am. Go.
So many questions! I noticed the test pilot wearing a parachute. Again, I am no pilot, but how would you bail out with a V tail and a jet engine directly behind you? I knew an old navy pilot(Korea) that told me they taught you to open the canopy, put your feet on the seat and jump as high as you can, but that can't be easy at 250 mph plus. Also how much fuel does this aircraft consume per hour?
18:14 - What's with the awkward hand angle to pull significantly back on the stick? Is it small for a tall person? Looks like there wasn't enough elbow room to pull back with a more natural hand position?
I still want to see a twin engine version with a H tail configuration that looks like a mini A10 . If you are listening sonex it would be popular i promise.
We are on ‼️
Looks like a lot of fun!
Excellent flight pilot and flying machine !! I want an aircraft like that !!
Why does the N-number keep changing between 12" and 3" ?
18:49 It looks like perhaps the flaps were forgotten in the down position. This means that armed intervention is requested per FAA order 7110.49D.
I have a bunch of old EAA mags so I was surprised this airplane had a jet engine mounted where it is :)
Just awesome and very brave too... thanks.
Not the world’s most forgiving stall, but not bad for what it is
Wish I could fly, but as a Test Pilot. There's nothing like being free in the skies. Great plane with great abilities by the looks of it. Thanks for the video. It was very informative. Blessings
I got one question.. how much wear and tear can those little wheels take? after all at scale theyre taking alota punshiment for such small amount of rubber.
superb landing old chap.
Nice warning before actual stall!
Airflow going from laminar style flow to turbulent air...
My lord... If I ever find myself with an unreasonable amount of money, I'm buying some flying lessons, and getting me one of these babies!
you are really brave people, to work with that kind of thing, thanks for the video, be well
11,200' and no oxygen? I am not a pilot, but I thought over 10,000' hypoxia was an issue?
Fsntastic little aircraft, an exterior shot of the high speed pass and steep climb out would have been good.
ha ha love the intro, ok waiting for the pumps and .... stuff.
I want one of those! Nice flying.
Great video!
Looked like some serious turbulence, good flying
So cool wishlisted
It seems like the throttle is too high and forward. Is that the only place it would fit, or is it so larger pilots can still reach it? What is the pilot weight limit anyway?
Do you think there will be a 2-seater one day?
As I learnt in University - One engine isn't be safe for flights. Will be great if you add second engine. Yes it's more expensive but for safety life of the pilot and resources of work of all engines right decision. And if one engine is malfunction - second takes all work on itself. But I know you know it :) Thanks for video! Good luck and always good weather for flights.
What's more dangerous than single engine plane? A underpowered, worn out training twin that cant even maintain altitude with an engine out. Having trained in a piper seneca, a Bonanza V tail and a debonair - I always felt safer in a single engine. Two engines = twice the burn, twice the trouble and never twice the performance. Low time pilots are far more likely to prang something losing an engine on TO in a small twin than a regular SE training plane like a diamond or C172, in which no thought of trying to go around is entertained with SE failure, your going to settle in, keep in tracking straight and grease her back on. In a poopy piper seminole, a noob pilot will firewall the good engine and maybe make the trees or worse they just stall and roll into the dead engine and faceplant shiny side up. Dead foot dead engine.
I had always said that if someone just gave me a chance to fly an airplane that I could do it, and I was working for an old man that bought a Mooney 201 single engine, four seat plane that was in St. Louis, Mo. We live in Danville Va. and he bought me an airline ticket so I could go with him to St. Louis and get the plane and bring it home.
We got rained in for three days and I got what I call the best three days of Ground School a man could buy, if I'd had to pay for it.
But on the fourth day it was clear on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains but still raining on the east side, but I told Chyester that heck, we could at least get half way home. We were going to have to stay in a motel room somewhere anyway and he said ok.
During the three rained in days I had climbed across and sit in the pilots seat and I taxied the plane around all over the airport.
Oh yea. They had sold the airport and the only trafic were a couple of planes going out. Nothing else was coming in so we played all we wanted to.
On that day Chester told me to taxi it up to the runway and put her on the white line, which I did, and then after getting clearance to take off from the tower, out of nowhere, with out any warning at all, Chester looked at me and said "You Drive!"
Well he caught me slap off guard. I mean totally off guard and I said "No, I don't think so!"
The he said "If I tell you to turn her loose, turn her loose!" and with that he shoved the throttle to the fire wall and down the runway we went with me being the pilot.
The whole time we had played with the plane on the ground there were two things that he had really beat into my head, and that was,
#!:::: The instrument Panels on both sides were identical,
and #2::: You don't break ground until you hit 78 knots airspeed.
Well, the Pilots instrument panel has the airspeed indicator on the top left corner.
But this time, I was in the Co-Pilots seat, and that is the only gauge that isn't on the Co-Pilots instrument Panel.
I remembered what he had said about the air speed and started looking for the indicator and it wasn't there.
The first thing I new was my right wing tip had drifted over to the center line.
Now while on the ground, you drive an airplane with the rudder pedals with your feet. That was a new one for me but I got down hard on the right pedal and as soon as I got the plane back in the center I started looking for the indicator again.
The next thing I knew the left wing tip was on the line so I had to get down on the left rudder pedal and all this time we are picking up speed fast.
Now as I said, we had been rained in for three days and both side of the runway looked like huge lakes.
I had no idea how deep the water was, but after the last course direction change I was now headed for that huge lake on the left and really fast by then.
I got down on the right rudder pedal as hard as I could but I simply ran out of room and to start with I "Thought to myself" "F88K it, I'll fight her in the air!"
About that time Chester figured out what my problem was and said "65 Knots!"
That was when it came to fly or swim and I said out loud with a yell "FU(K IT, I'LL FIGHT HER IN THE AIR" and I pulled the yoke back and away we went. But I pulled it back to ha4rd and a few seconds later the stall light and horn went off and Chester started to push my yoke back down some, but I beat him to it and the light and horn shut up before his hand reached my yoke.
I won't get into the rest of the two extremely interesting flights we took that day and the day after getting back home except to say, Short of landing on either of those flights, I flew the plane all the way to Evansville, Indiana the first day, while crossing the great Miss. River 7 different times, and then thinking this old man had no idea where Danville, Virginia was any longer, broke into his brief case that night and laid out a trip to Danville using what is called Distance Measuring Equipment that tells you how far from a radio station you are and flew the plane home, with him constantly telling me to put it back on the heading he wanted to fly at.
I didn't know it, because he didn't tell me, but he was trying to take the plane to Greensboro, N. C. to have an annual inspection done. Well, I thought we were coming back home, and we came back home.
Martinsville, Va. is dead between Evansville and Danville and I was so happy to see route 220 and the 58 East and West, while on the other hand, Chester Baker was as confused as a football bat.
As long as he has been flying, which started when he was 15 years old in a little single seat plane more than a half century ago, he still swears that you can't change a planes direction with nothing but the rudder, but I did. I knew he'd notice if I tipped the wings, even while he was reading the manual the whole flight.
That was my first two flights but now I have somewhere close to 300 hours flying the Mooney, a Twin Engine Queen Air he bought a couple years later, I forget what the other one was, but compared to the first two, hat plane seemed as if you were going to grind the seat of your pants off before you ever took off or landed in that one.I hate it when I can't remember something like the name or really the make and model of an airplane.
But I can say that he is still the only one ever to teach me anything about flying that I have learned from books on my own.
I started building an ultra light airplane about ten years ago but blacked out from paint fumes and I fell from from a make shift scaffold and had to scrap that project for then, and now the fuselage has had rain water in the tubes so I am going to have to start from scratch again, but I am getting ready too.
I just have to have my own airplane, even if it is an ultra-light two seat trainer.
Nice book.
You can redirect a plane by rudder. It's hard but you can.
Great, crazy story !
That sleek thing looks like the offspring of a BD-5 microjet and a Fouga Magister...
So this man is just casually flying at 16 000 feet without any kind of oxygen?
A couple of engineers and myself built a small 2 seater jet we call it a JETME, SHE WILL CRUISE AT 415 MILES PER HOUR, WITH A RANGE OF JUST OVER 2000 miles, once we get her to 3500 she will be ready to put in production a child could fly this baby, comes with an emergency chute, already tested comes down like a feather fully loaded, and here's the kicker she lands on the wheels every time, no damage, that was my invention. once we get her able to fly from california to new york on one tank of fuel, we got this, i sure hope this world has room for 1 more billionaire, i feel real lucky about this baby. a jet a child can fly and land, gentleman the future is in anti gravity plates, we are currently trying to get a patient now, not to make her float no we just want to lighten the load , it changes the weight to only 200 lb from 1600 lbs much more than that it becomes unstable, a friend invented them 20 years ago he was afraid the FBI CIA would try and kill him imagine that .
Man I felt as if I was doing the rolls and heavy banks. I miss my flying days and I was doing Crop Dusting and just recreational flying as an amature actually.
Hay Bob, what helmet are you using? Fits the Lightningspeed headset well.
How much does this tiny little jet cost and how long can it stay airborne?
what is the weight of only aircraft and from which material it is made? what is the name of jet engine and how much thrust does it produce?
Pratik Lavande don't know the weight, aircraft is aluminum, jet is a PBS jet making approximately 250 lbs of thrust if I recall correctly
On the Stall test I saw that the pilot used aileron to try to correct the aircraft.
This action could result in a spin?
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It took a sudden dive to the right, which is a really quick way to get into a spin, but he was ready and looked like he even anticipated it. High time pilot in an experimental jet. He handled it like the pro he is. It would be very easy to get in trouble with this airplane. I would have to have a parachute installed.
@@luvstruck2733 recovery from a spin is not impossible in the least.
Excusme mr. What this is plane hand made(DIY)..?
I think that is really neat.
How much thrust? And can you approximate what that thrust works out to in hp?
Hello! what is the cruising speed? What is the minimum stol speed
Should pressurize it in order to take to the service ceiling
Who don't want to do this !
With this variant, considering the original propellor design was configured for a much lower speed, what structural changes were made to support the higher loads? What distance/ranges are possible with this plane?