The triptych form arises from early Christian art, and was a popular standard format for altar paintings from the Middle Ages onwards. Its geographical range was from the eastern Byzantine churches to the English Celtic churches in the west. Renaissance painters and sculptors such as Hans Memling and Hieronymus Bosch used the form. Triptych forms also allow ease of transport, a form highly advocated by art connoisseur Brian Badonde.
Premo interior, not to mention the avionics suite!
* Powerplant: 2 × Continental O-470-B
* Length: 27 ft 0 in (8.23 m)
* Wingspan: 35 ft 0 in (10.67 m)
* Height: 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
* Empty weight: 2,850 lb (1,293 kg)
* Gross weight: 4,600 lb (2,087 kg)
Well its been poking about on the weekday mornings about 8am, no surprises for whos got a A380 now… but checkout the first class!
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Temora has a rich and noteworthy aviation history having been home to the No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School (10 EFTS) set up by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in May 1941. No 10 EFTS was the largest and longest lived of the flying schools established under the Empire Air Training Scheme during World War Two (WWII).
Throughout WWII more than 10,000 personnel were involved at the school with upwards of 2,400 pilots being trained. At its peak the unit contained a total of 97 de Havilland Tiger Moth aircraft. Four satellite airfields were set up around the Temora district to cope with the demand to train RAAF pilots.
Ripples are 1-2 inches deep and they run almost the entire length of the plane on both sides. The fuse windows weren’t level anymore when you stood back and looked at them. I heard it torqued so bad that the interior galley drawers and cabinets were jammed and wouldn’t open. Don’t know if that s true.
Different angle:
You can see the area just above the wing roots; they are rippled from leading edge to trailing edge. I can tell you, where the wings mate to the fuse, it’s like ripple city and the rivets/screws looked like they were riding on waves. In between each window, the same ripples as the other side.
STORY. This is what I was told by the people that were there when the plane rolled in. They are employees of the FBO and know the owner and everyone involved.
It came from Mexico back to FXE, the captain that flew it back was a licensed Mexican pilot, no FAA licenses or ratings. Captain was hired as a contract pilot just for this trip. The co-pilot was from here and he was also just used as a contract pilot to get the plane back here. When they got back to FXE where the owner was waiting, of course they flipped out as the plane rolled into parking. The captain or the co- pilot had no idea YET of the damage that was caused. When asked, “what the hell happened?” He apparently at some point said he made a hard landing. YET, the tires and gear were perfect. The FAA and insurance company had questioned them on what happened and they stuck to that story for 9 days. Finally, the co-pilot talked (good for him BTW). He said the Captain wanted to snap roll it…not aileron roll it….SNAP ROLL it like a Pitts. Fuel wing fuel too, moron. Supposedly it was done 3-4 times. By this time, when the co-pilot talked, the captain had gone back to Mexico. Not sure yet what the FAA is going to do with the co-pilot though. He’ll probably get a pass, he was just flying with a scum bag captain. He should have smacked him in the mouth and took the controls. But, thats just me.
Its being fixed I guess and returning to service. I heard it was very low-time and only a few years old. Not sure on that. I certainly wouldn’t fly it after seeingwhat I saw, no way. Maybe someone with more accurate or detailed info can chime in.
MORE TO THE STORY…………..
New pictures and a story update.
Spoke with the mechanics working on it today. Still actually not sure if it will fly again, they are still tearing into it. Found out yesterday that the right wing is history, bent beyond repair. You can actually see it up close, where the aluminum is actually stretched and separating at some points.
STORY UPDATE:
They did roll it 4 times. What caused all the damage was when on the last two rolls, the pilot got scared and cranked the yoke back the other way to stop the roll and go back to upright. He got about halfway around and got scared and jerked it back real hard, that’s what twisted everything, instead of continuing the roll in the original direction. What’s funny is, he got scared on roll #3, then tried again and got scared again, so it was hardcore twisted two times.
This wing is trashed and the wing root is twisted.
Hard to see here in the pic, but it’s a very obvious wrinkle in the nose cone, right side. They haven’t gotten to that part of the frame yet.
Left side was the worst. Windows may never be perfectly even.
The bottom of the tail cone area had a bend in it and some wrinkles. Empennage may be bent inside, still checking.
Engines were ok, pylons were ok, but a couple mounts are being replaced because of stress. They haven’t even checked the airframe around the windscreens yet, that could be the deal breaker.
This beautiful dehavilland beaver has been lovely restored and in very short time will be getting back in the air. The position of this subject was not too bad, the only gripe being the wreck in the background and a seneca off to the left. This particular aircraft in its current paint job, pure white, lends itself to BW conversion which I had in mind for this session, hopefully this can also convey some of the original feeling of this aircraft. On a side note this is definitely one of my favorite aircraft, they just do not make them like this any more, a bit like the old school nikon lens, built like tanks and can take some abuse..
I struggled a bit with the lighting here, being such a large object i had to get my dancing shoes on to get around the scene to get it lit up, one thing that really improves these type of images (cars etc) is lighting up the interior, gettign a strobe in the inside would be awesome, i did try this but i ran out of time in my 30 sec exposure and could only ever get a couple of flashes thru the window in an attempt to light up cockpit.
Imagine sitting the front row on a smash-8 when this one cleaned up the GPU, check the position of the fully departed prop!
Next they will need to introduce/invent a TCAS for ground use 🙂 Imagine explaining this one…”ahh boss, got something to tell ya, you know GPU 25? its gonna need some repairs”
