Here in America we hear how general aviation is so complicated and expensive flying is in the U.K., but your video adventures bely that notion. Many would call this the lower end of the aeronautical spectrum, but that's where I find the most fun. I'm kind of jealous! Thanks for sharing.
@@kenmercer8040 I depends what people choose to fly. There's lots of cheap and cheerful flying available in the UK and it's not at all complicated. Some pilots like gadgets and complication; I don't!
Those landings are so silky, years of companionship with the aeroplane really show! A very merry Christmas to you too, and thank you for your informative and entertaining content, it never fails to bring a smile to my face!
Thank you for your wonderful videos. This is the kind of aviation that got me interested in flying many years ago. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Québec, Canada.
Happy Christmas and Happy New Year - really enjoyed the videos and hope to see some adventure again. I hope to do also one of the chase the train moments as Steam and Flying must go hand in hand. Have a nice break and look forward to more.
An acquaintance began flying in the late 1920's would fly from Chicago to Windsor following the tracks of the " Nickle Plate" railway. Returning to Chicago ( carrying a load of bottled spirits) after sundown he would pick up the glow from the steel mills and then easly find his way back to his destination .( Ashburn Field on Chicago's south side. He was flying a surplus Standard biplane .
Another excellent adventure with "FT" and one I shall enjoy revisiting many times. Many thanks for generously sharing more of your travels Mr. Trecanair! 😉
It has been many, many years since I lived in England, but the scenery still makes me happy. Thanks for taking me along. I'll fly with you anywhere. When I was training for my PPL, one of my primary instructors used to operate a flying school equipped mainly with C2s and C3s. He had tons of tales about them. I hope to fly one someday. Merry Christmas and let's fly lots in 2025.
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair Eddie Gorski was my instructor and often my mentor. He worked for some years for Fokker at their factory in Teterboro, New Jersey. After the Knute Rockne crash in 1931, Fokker folded up its US operations and Ed took the job as manager and chief pilot for some investors who bought the Teterboro acreage. It must have been an interesting flight school indeed, because how did they give dual instruction un single seat "airknockers"? Simple, the instructor sat in the seat with the student on his lap, much like today's sport parachute operations. I wasn't there for that, of course, I have to take people's word for it. I was born in 1945 and from 1951 or so onward I was a fixture at Lincoln Park Airport in New Jersey where Ed relocated after his wartime service as an Army AF Civilian Service Pilot. How I wish there was a machine I could connect myself to that would record some of those memories ,,,,,
Happy Christmas and New Year to you. Really enjoy your videos, you strike a good balance between pure flying and the time in the workshop or with the Vauxhall. Thanks again
Another lovely interesting video. Used to fly in said Super Cub a lot out of that strip (can see it from my house) and once when we landed, a chap came running down the field, thinking we had force landed and did we need any help. When showed him the hangar, he twigged and then as a thank you was given a short flight around the local area.
@@idahoairplanes1235 Flambards! Now that takes me back to the 1970s. Was a brilliant series, I think it’s all available on another video hosting site (Dailymotion or Vimeo).
@@Pilotfromfaraway It’s been far too long; I did briefly park outside your office recently but it was 0200 local time, we just picked up two passengers and blasted off to somewhere I can’t remember 😂😂
At 10:34, you really stepped in it, didn't you! LOL Glad to see you took care of the mess immediately. Oh, when Lucy heard you have a Labrador, now she wants to see. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, Nick! CAVU and see you next year!!
I once had a ride in a Piper "Clipper" similar to the "Super" .PAA enjoined Piper from using that name so production passport lived. The owner suggested I take control and I did so. However, when I mentioned that my main aviation knowledge was a long association with free flight model competition he quickly resumed control.
Merry Christmas! Thanks once again for another video of my favourite flying machine. Still unbelievable for me that I knew EFT as a kid in 1956 and still get to see her. I wonder when the paint was changed from blue to yellow or perhaps something in between as well.
It's always good to see G-AEFT. She looks and sounds utterly wonderful. Merry Christmas to you too, sir. Here's to more fettling, splendidness and toad-like behaviour in 2025. 🙂
Always interesting. Good to see your chocks and ropes were positioned correctly. On occasions I've observed unbraked aircraft, engine running and some eager beaver struggling to pull them out because the ropes aren't positioned correctly😅. MerryChristmas from NZ.
@@chriskiwi2601 I’ve seen someone yank a chock out so hard they hit the propeller. Big solid wooden chock with rubber cover, luckily it was a big metal prop and appeared not to be damaged. Took a neat corner off the chock!
G'day, Great stuff. I "detailed" a Super-Cub, whdn I was working for Ansett General Aviation at Bankstown, in '79...; it seemed a lot "Gruntier" that the 65 Hp J-3 which I'd flown in '78...(!). Are you adding to your fleet ? I visited the local museum yesterday, to start a Video with my father's Charcoal-Gas Producer, circa 1943 -45...; to start a Video titled, "80 Years' Renewably-Powered Road-Vehicles,In Glen Innes ; Practical Realities...!" After a bit of a peek at a Steam Engine I used to run on Compressed Air, and avery sketchy guesstimation of how the Gas-Producer worked - there's two there, to compare...(!) ; then I got into the formulae I've come up with for calculating the cost, in Oz$, including GST - for enough of a stand-alone Solar Installation to recharge one's Tesla, Off-Grid..., after a day's out-and-abouting... With almost the whole Solar-Electric dissertation delivered off the cuff, to the Chest-Camera, while riding home via the Lookout (the Scenic Route...). Now I know why there's only one bloke in my whole Postcode who recharges his Tesla with stored Sunlight, Off-Grid ; and his daily commute is "only 100 km for the return journey - he's not recharging an actually flat Battery - more like one that's still got 50% of a Charge remaining... (he has to climb 2,500 ft on the km way into town). Anyway, having done the numbers, I'm glad I embarked on an attempt to acquire a "Poor-Man's Tesla...; because my entire spend - Bike, Accessories and Solar System, was an order of magnitude below what the System to recharge an Elon-mobile would cost one, to be looking at it, installed... Anyway, Happy Solstice Festival ! We can all give thanks that we don't live in that troubled Kand between Mexico & Canada, at least ! Stay safe, ;-p Ciao !
Wow! I wish my plane was that easy to start. I feel like each time I start it I'm going to get chopped up by it (and I stand behind). it's also MUCH MUCH harder to crank over. Yours seemed so easy! Give that nice little plane a nice new coat of paint. No?
@ 👍🏻 The Aeronca Jap is well set up for hand starting; the impulse magneto fires at TDC when retarded so there’s a healthy spark and little inclination to kick back.
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair Can you tell me the compression of that motor? My motor doesn't kick back, but it is just seems to have high compression. It's the most terrifying motor I've ever hand propped. All the others I've hand propped didn't bother me, they were even fun. This one...ugg. No fun.
Thanks for all the videos this year, your charming little films are the next best thing to being there. Glad you avoided the flocking sheep!
Enjoyed you taking me with you. Happy New Year and another year with the Aeronca C3
Here in America we hear how general aviation is so complicated and expensive flying is in the U.K., but your video adventures bely that notion. Many would call this the lower end of the aeronautical spectrum, but that's where I find the most fun. I'm kind of jealous! Thanks for sharing.
@@kenmercer8040 I depends what people choose to fly. There's lots of cheap and cheerful flying available in the UK and it's not at all complicated. Some pilots like gadgets and complication; I don't!
Splendid indeed. Thanks - I always look forward to your next trip!. VBR
I’m very happy to have made your virtual acquaintance this year. Happy Christmas to you and yours.
Those landings are so silky, years of companionship with the aeroplane really show!
A very merry Christmas to you too, and thank you for your informative and entertaining content, it never fails to bring a smile to my face!
@@Pete-tq6in Thank you. The Aeronca is a very well mannered flying machine 🙂 more content on the way 👍🏻
I never cease to e amused by the sound of the engine on that adorable little airplane,
Thank you for your wonderful videos. This is the kind of aviation that got me interested in flying many years ago. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Québec, Canada.
Love watching the fly abouts. Keep up the great work & have a good one!
Merry Christmas, Nick! Looking forward to sharing more flying adventures with you in 2025.
The "scowl" on a cold, damp startup seems to work a treat!! Thanks for sharing once again, Nick! 👍
@@kbjerke Did you spot the vaporous puff on the second start? I think that was the remains of the icing, now converted to steam.
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair Sure did! She's a rip-snortin' beast! Rarin' to fly!!
Thanks for taking us along. Nick, Merry Christmas to you and yours from Iowa
I can’t believe how green your grass looks!
@@bentonbee1 A combination of rain and sheep manure!
Another lovely video, thanks! Happy Christmas and let’s have more great videos in 2025 ! 👍👍
Merry Christmas and thank you for the wonderful videos
Happy Christmas and Happy New Year - really enjoyed the videos and hope to see some adventure again. I hope to do also one of the chase the train moments as Steam and Flying must go hand in hand. Have a nice break and look forward to more.
An acquaintance began flying in the late 1920's would fly from Chicago to Windsor following the tracks of the " Nickle Plate" railway. Returning to Chicago ( carrying a load of bottled spirits) after sundown he would pick up the glow from the steel mills and then easly find his way back to his destination .( Ashburn Field on Chicago's south side. He was flying a surplus Standard biplane .
Thank you for some knowledge, insights into local airfields and enjoyable flights!
Another excellent adventure with "FT" and one I shall enjoy revisiting many times.
Many thanks for generously sharing more of your travels Mr. Trecanair! 😉
What a Awsome little plane ✈️
Thank you and Merry Christmas
Que tengas una feliz Navidad
Y toda clase de parabienes y lindos aterrizajes en el nuevo año
Con cariño desde
Chile
A trip to there and back again. Many thanks, and a hug for the little flying machine.
It has been many, many years since I lived in England, but the scenery still makes me happy. Thanks for taking me along. I'll fly with you anywhere. When I was training for my PPL, one of my primary instructors used to operate a flying school equipped mainly with C2s and C3s. He had tons of tales about them. I hope to fly one someday. Merry Christmas and let's fly lots in 2025.
@@davestarr7112 Blimey, a school with two cylinder Aeroncas? He must have been instructing in the 1930s?
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair Eddie Gorski was my instructor and often my mentor. He worked for some years for Fokker at their factory in Teterboro, New Jersey. After the Knute Rockne crash in 1931, Fokker folded up its US operations and Ed took the job as manager and chief pilot for some investors who bought the Teterboro acreage. It must have been an interesting flight school indeed, because how did they give dual instruction un single seat "airknockers"? Simple, the instructor sat in the seat with the student on his lap, much like today's sport parachute operations. I wasn't there for that, of course, I have to take people's word for it. I was born in 1945 and from 1951 or so onward I was a fixture at Lincoln Park Airport in New Jersey where Ed relocated after his wartime service as an Army AF Civilian Service Pilot. How I wish there was a machine I could connect myself to that would record some of those memories ,,,,,
@ A wonderful story, thank you for posting 🙂
Happy Christmas and New Year to you. Really enjoy your videos, you strike a good balance between pure flying and the time in the workshop or with the Vauxhall. Thanks again
Nice. Good holidays.
So enjoyable!!
Another lovely interesting video. Used to fly in said Super Cub a lot out of that strip (can see it from my house) and once when we landed, a chap came running down the field, thinking we had force landed and did we need any help. When showed him the hangar, he twigged and then as a thank you was given a short flight around the local area.
Love your channel - to me, this is what flying is all about. Thanks very much, and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours !
Brilliant. Your flight and landing reminded me of a mid-century Flambards… the BBC series of course.
@@idahoairplanes1235 Flambards! Now that takes me back to the 1970s. Was a brilliant series, I think it’s all available on another video hosting site (Dailymotion or Vimeo).
When I watch your videos, it feels like we had a visit. Merry Christmas my ole buddy.
@@Pilotfromfaraway It’s been far too long; I did briefly park outside your office recently but it was 0200 local time, we just picked up two passengers and blasted off to somewhere I can’t remember 😂😂
Merry christmas and happy landings
Very relaxing and entertaining, plus educational. A very Merry X'mas!
prettige kerstdagen en een gelukkig nieuwjaar ,thanks for all your video's ,see you next year.
At 10:34, you really stepped in it, didn't you! LOL Glad to see you took care of the mess immediately. Oh, when Lucy heard you have a Labrador, now she wants to see. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, Nick! CAVU and see you next year!!
@@kbjerke 😂😂😂 I was going to call, the film ‘Turnpikes & Turds’ but wasn’t sure if the algorithm would like it. See you next year 🤞🏻👍🏻
I once had a ride in a Piper "Clipper" similar to the "Super" .PAA enjoined Piper from using that name so production passport lived. The owner suggested I take control and I did so. However, when I mentioned that my main aviation knowledge was a long association with free flight model competition he quickly resumed control.
@@paulhelman2376 haha, that’s wonderful! Free flight is much like the controls in an Airbus 👍🏻😂
Merry Christmas! Thanks once again for another video of my favourite flying machine. Still unbelievable for me that I knew EFT as a kid in 1956 and still get to see her. I wonder when the paint was changed from blue to yellow or perhaps something in between as well.
Was silver from 1961 to 1984 and then rebuilt again. Emerged as yellow in 1986. Next rebuild will keep yellow fuselage but with silver wings.
Delightful as always Nick. Merry Christmas. Chris in Devon.
@@GULLPERCHFLYER I must buzz down to Bolt Head in 2025 👍🏻
Looking forward to your vids in 2025. Always interesting. Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to You and Yours from Sweden.
somehow the smell of petrol made it 6000 kilometres
into my living room.
cheers my friend, and a merry c-mas to you!
Many thanks for your content looking forward to learning more next year. Have a great Christmas and new year. Stay well
It's always good to see G-AEFT. She looks and sounds utterly wonderful. Merry Christmas to you too, sir. Here's to more fettling, splendidness and toad-like behaviour in 2025. 🙂
@@clearprop Hurrah to that! Poop Poop! 🤣🤣
Nice, enjoy the skies
Aaahhh!🙂 Hope you get some good family and home time soon. Have a good Xmas
Merry Christmas to you too, really enjoyed the content this year.
beautiful landings, really enjoy your video's
@@GeorgeKnight-e7f A bit of luck helps 🤣
nice, easy, low and slow x country.....doesn't get any better!
Nice
Thank you Nick. Merry Christmas. BTW….please run a cable so you can remotely turn that choke on and off😊. It is TOO close to that prop.
@@dcmflydude6320 No; my middle name is Danger, same as my more famous cousin Austin 🤣
Always interesting. Good to see your chocks and ropes were positioned correctly. On occasions I've observed unbraked aircraft, engine running and some eager beaver struggling to pull them out because the ropes aren't positioned correctly😅. MerryChristmas from NZ.
@@chriskiwi2601 I’ve seen someone yank a chock out so hard they hit the propeller. Big solid wooden chock with rubber cover, luckily it was a big metal prop and appeared not to be damaged. Took a neat corner off the chock!
A very Merry Christmas and a happy new year to your good self and your family 🎄
Merry Christmas
For the hp.. the C-3 does pretty good and would out run a 40hp. J-2 or Taylor Cub.. AEFT is a jewel !!
G'day,
Great stuff.
I "detailed" a Super-Cub, whdn I was working for Ansett General Aviation at Bankstown, in '79...; it seemed a lot "Gruntier" that the 65 Hp J-3 which I'd flown in '78...(!).
Are you adding to your fleet ?
I visited the local museum yesterday, to start a Video with my father's Charcoal-Gas Producer, circa 1943 -45...; to start a Video titled,
"80 Years' Renewably-Powered Road-Vehicles,In Glen Innes ; Practical Realities...!"
After a bit of a peek at a Steam Engine I used to run on Compressed Air, and avery sketchy guesstimation of how the Gas-Producer worked - there's two there, to compare...(!) ; then I got into the formulae I've come up with for calculating the cost, in Oz$, including GST - for enough of a stand-alone Solar Installation to recharge one's Tesla, Off-Grid..., after a day's out-and-abouting...
With almost the whole Solar-Electric dissertation delivered off the cuff, to the Chest-Camera, while riding home via the Lookout (the Scenic Route...).
Now I know why there's only one bloke in my whole Postcode who recharges his Tesla with stored Sunlight, Off-Grid ; and his daily commute is "only 100 km for the return journey - he's not recharging an actually flat Battery - more like one that's still got 50% of a Charge remaining... (he has to climb 2,500 ft on the km way into town).
Anyway, having done the numbers, I'm glad I embarked on an attempt to acquire a "Poor-Man's Tesla...; because my entire spend - Bike, Accessories and Solar System, was an order of magnitude below what the System to recharge an Elon-mobile would cost one, to be looking at it, installed...
Anyway, Happy Solstice Festival !
We can all give thanks that we don't live in that troubled Kand between Mexico & Canada, at least !
Stay safe,
;-p
Ciao !
@@WarblesOnALot Super Cub well outside my price range! Just helping the owner with changing from a Certificate of Airworthiness to a Permit to Fly.
@FlyingForFunTrecanair
Ah, I see...
Carry on then, a mission of mercy, apparently.
Stay safe,
;-p
Ciao !
Wow! I wish my plane was that easy to start.
I feel like each time I start it I'm going to get chopped up by it (and I stand behind).
it's also MUCH MUCH harder to crank over.
Yours seemed so easy!
Give that nice little plane a nice new coat of paint. No?
@@cluelessbeekeeping1322 Not much point repainting old fabric. One the C2 is flying, the C3 will get a new cover. What engine is in your aeroplane?
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair It's a 1/2VW.
@ 👍🏻 The Aeronca Jap is well set up for hand starting; the impulse magneto fires at TDC when retarded so there’s a healthy spark and little inclination to kick back.
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair Can you tell me the compression of that motor? My motor doesn't kick back, but it is just seems to have high compression. It's the most terrifying motor I've ever hand propped. All the others I've hand propped didn't bother me, they were even fun. This one...ugg. No fun.
@ 5.2:1, very low compression ratio. 70 octane fuel is fine;would probably run on Cognac!
Merry Christmas! What a nice gentle film to end the year; Turnip King, was that 18th Century fast food?!
@@loomisgruntfuttock I’d like to think so!
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair 🤣🤣I think more turnpikes (and more tramways) would make splendid content.
At first I thought the propellers were too small generate lift for your aircraft, what their measurements. am also working on the same project
@@Banaawa The propeller is well matched to the small engine. 63” diameter, 32” pitch. Tell us more about your project?