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Martin Říha
Czechia
Registrace 29. 04. 2011
Airbus Helicopters EC120B walkaround
Walkaround of Airbus Helicopters (former Eurocooter) EC120B Colibri registration OK-EUP. Shot on sunny Thursday March 2nd 2023.
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Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat gear swing test
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Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat gear swing test during scheduled maintenance. The gear is extended mechanically by the pilot utilising a hand crank. It takes between 28-32 turns of the crank from fully retracted to fully extended and locked position and the same number of turns to reverse the process.
Antonov AN-2 engine startup - birds nest being thrown out of the exhaust
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Antonov AN-2, the biggest biplane in the world, the only airplane with no published stall speed beeing started after longer storage. You can see a birds nest beeing expelled from the exhaust during startup.
Douglas A26 Invader gear swing test
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1944 Douglas A26 Invader (later becoming one of the On Mark Marksman Conversions) gear swing test after renovation to its original military look. The video contains few extra details of the gear bays.
Lockheed L-10A Electra gear swing test
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Gear swing test following annual inspection on Lockheed L-10A Electra. This particular airplane was originally sold to Czechoslavakia to a famous enterpreneur Tomas Bata when new. This is the same serial number after extensive renovation finished back in 2015. Probably the only L-10A version in flying condition. The gear is quite simple construction, electrically driven. Only main gear is being...
Cessna Citation CJ525 Starting Engines
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CJ525 Starting Engines after battery recondition.
Piper Seneca PA-34 200T landing gear swing test
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Piper Seneca PA-34 200T gear swing test following annual check. This one is a much simpler design compared to the previously published video of Beech Mentor as there is only a simple door for the front leg compared to sophisticated door system installed on the Beech.
Beech Mentor T34B gear swing test
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Beech Mentor T34B gear swing test including gear warning horn test (activated by reducing throttle). This gear works like a clockwork, very precise compared to Cessna retractables.
Twelve year old driving Volvo FH12 460
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Twelve year old son driving manual gearbox twelve speed transmission Volvo FH 12 460 semi truck. Non public paved road environment. One of the last chances to drive manual gearbox truck as all the new ones are automatic.
Cessna 177RG Cardinal gear swing test
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Gear swing test of the original Cardinal, which is probably the worst retractable gear design by Cessna, ever. The gear locks are electromechanically actuated by solenoids with a system of levers, which is PIA to work on and hard to find even used parts for it. The best solution to remedy the problems with the landing gear on this type is to sell the airplane... The trouble is that owner of thi...
Cessna 337 Skymaster gear swing test
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Gear swing test of Cessna 337 Skymaster performed at Nitra airport. Notice the operation of the gear doors and also the way the front wheel is stored, it turns 90 degrees upon retraction to save space laying flat in the wheel well.
Bell 429
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VIP configuration Bell 429 na návštěvě v Hradci Králové, LKHK, plnění palivem na cestě do Prahy. Bell 429 visiting Hradec Kralove, LKHK, refueling stop on a way to Prague, LKPR. Nice twin engine machine with full FADEC control of the engines, the starting is a real joy, no threat of a hot start at all. I was quite surprised by the low noise signature of the whole machine, which is equipped by d...
Airbus Helicopters EC120B Colibri Engine Module 1 Exchange
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Short photo story documenting Engine Module 1 exchange after the engine started making metal chips and repeated engine flush and oil and filter exchange did not help to remedy the problem. Turbomecca recommended Module 1 Exchange.
Five Antonov AN-2 biplanes formation flight
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Five Antonov AN-2 biplanes formation flight
Piper Meridian - IFR approach to Malmo (ESMS)
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Piper Meridian - IFR approach to Malmo (ESMS)
Socata TB-20 ILS 27 at LKPD, coupled approach GTN 750 and KAP150 autopilot, VMC, aborted landing
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Socata TB-20 ILS 27 at LKPD, coupled approach GTN 750 and KAP150 autopilot, VMC, aborted landing
Piper Twin Comanche PA-30 landing at Cuatro Viente, Madrid, Spain. EC-BQC
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Piper Twin Comanche PA-30 landing at Cuatro Viente, Madrid, Spain. EC-BQC
Socata TB-20 enroute from LKMT to LKHK
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Socata TB-20 enroute from LKMT to LKHK
L-200 Morava approach and landing at LKJA
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L-200 Morava approach and landing at LKJA
Great sky tractor.
Made a skydive from an AN2 back in the 90’s. What was cool was the main cabin door swung open to the inside of the aircraft toward the tail which allowed the door to be closed for the ride to altitude and opened for the exit. Carried 12 jumpers to 5500’ for a demo jump. A clean 35 minute ride to the exit point. Fun jump.
Now you know how reliable it is
Like that engine would be bothered by that little amount of junk in exhaust, chill the fuck out doomsdayers
Crude bu effective 😅
CLEAR NEST!!!
AN-2 don’t care
Exactly!
Somebody didn't do a very good pre-flight...
How rude!
Naah. Rat's nest.
That’s why aircraft have Blanks .
A VERY old, but very simple aircraft that’s still has many uses. Has a good payload and almost unequal at flying low and slow. North Korea used/uses them for their “special forces” insertions.
Some military experts have said that North Korea could potentially use them to deliver smaller nuclear bombs, at least at shorter range targets (their only true bombers are lighter, VERY early jet aircraft built in the late 1940s).
caught one of these going thru Star Wars Canyon last January. They had put a train horn on the thing and beeped it to say hello to all the photographers each time it dropped into the cyn.
Impressive pre flight, was it Russian???
That was a Russian exhaust cover.
So much for the preflight inspection!
I saw a video of a twin Caribou bird take off, nose up, flip over and crash....pilot left the gust locks on the control surfaces. 🤔
In Russia that is the preflight 😂
Well, they do things differently in Russia.
@@richardlahan7068 yes dey do babuska now off to gulag.
AN-2 don't need no inspection.
So it is retracted and deployed manually, with a crank?
That’s an FM-2
Isn’t it FM-2
There are interesting engineering solutions to folding landing gear like the F4F. The B-52, F-111, C-5, notable mentions.
Um mini trem de pouso, em comparação com o tamanho do avião, deveria ter sérias restrições de estabilidade e frenagens.
Was always strange to me how one of the coolest looking planes had one of the ugliest sets of landing gear.
They can rebuild an 80 year old plane, but can’t turn the phone to landscape …smh
All done with a hand crank.
かすかにSteppenwolfの Magic Carpet Ride が聴こえる気がする．．．
Я думал в ручную,при помощи "терщетки", шасси убиралось только на И 16...😂
people who play war thunder automatically know this planes gear had a crank you had to spin
If y’all think this is bad, imagine being enlisted as a Tanker at the time… that turret didn’t always have electrical power.
Sick bro
Happy to see it is still hand cranked.
Действительно просто! Зачем просто убирать шасси когда можно как на "кэте"!
“Mhm.” 🤦♂️
The pilot needs to do about 29 stick rotations
Ручной привод уборки шасси и выпуска
IL-2 1946 be like *ctrl-G x 100*
It doesn't look like it was designed by some talented engineer.
It’s funny that everyone thinks this hand cranked gear is terrible. Personally I think it’s a great idea a lot less to go wrong and who cares if you had to turn a crank. It’s just like crank windows in a car. I have 2 cars one has manual cranked windows and the other has those god forsaken electric ones. I’ve never thought about the crank windows but every time I drive the other car with the electric ones I think wow these are horrible. They are slow, don’t work without the key on, seem to break down a lot, ect. I don’t know who decided electric windows where a “feature” but there is a special place in hell for that person.
Can you imagine having to crank this thing down with a bullet lodged in your arm or leg, all while keeping the aircraft on the correct glide path to land on a moving, rocking aircraft carrier?
This is what I was going to say. Everyone is say ohh the stress about returning from combat and the adrenaline and then having to crank. Screw that, what if you’re injured and can’t crank it? That’s the bigger issue. Stress or Adrenaline won’t even be a factor because it’s all muscle memory. Getting injured changes that.
1930년대에 저런걸 만들다니... 미국 찬양해!
Was it the wild cat or hell cat that was better? I always get them mixed up, and how flimsy was that under carage 😬
This is just an anecdote, but supposedly it worked as a ratchet system. So many pilots would release the ratchet rather than turning the handle to lower the landing gear, letting gravity or centrifugal forces do the work for them. None of the accounts mention if that damaged the landing gear.
Not sure it’s fair to call it a swing test…
Aw thats adorable
so no hydraulics
Just another reason why this aircraft was eclipsed by the F6F Hellcat.
One of the coolest retractions of any WW2-era fighter, in my opinion.
No imagine a pilot fresh from a combat sortie. His adrenaline is spent he wants to get back on the ship without crashing, his muscles feel like jelly and now he has to hand crank his landing gear down.
They usually didn't bother. There was an informal, but commonly used technique where you would simply unlock the landing gear lever and then perform a 90 degree turn to drop the landing gear for you.
@@Jamesbrown-xi5ih really I did know this I figured that the system had a break to keep the gear from dropping while cranking it up or down.
Combat wouldn’t matter. It’s muscle memory by that point, just like flying was.
@@PTRRanger951 muscle memory means nothing when your exhausted amd trying to get back to ship.
@@patrickradcliffe3837except it does. That’s why it’s muscle memory. So it can be done without thinking. It’s also one less thing that can fail or get shot up, then you don’t have gear. That’s why it was like that, to keep it easy.
I completely forgot these things were hand cranked... holy crap if it was me forget it I think I would place here in the drink- massive respect to those pilots who flew her and fly her still
Cool
Зато Надёжно!!!