Aeronca C3 - Airstrips And Turnpikes

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  • Опубликовано: 18 дек 2024

Комментарии • 88

  • @wesleycardinal8869
    @wesleycardinal8869 2 дня назад +7

    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!

  • @ohwell2790
    @ohwell2790 3 дня назад +12

    Enjoyed you taking me with you. Happy New Year and another year with the Aeronca C3

  • @kenmercer8040
    @kenmercer8040 23 часа назад +2

    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.

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  22 часа назад +2

      @@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!

  • @sloleydave
    @sloleydave День назад +2

    Splendid indeed. Thanks - I always look forward to your next trip!. VBR

  • @zebop917
    @zebop917 День назад +1

    I’m very happy to have made your virtual acquaintance this year. Happy Christmas to you and yours.

  • @Pete-tq6in
    @Pete-tq6in 3 дня назад +5

    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!

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  3 дня назад +2

      @@Pete-tq6in Thank you. The Aeronca is a very well mannered flying machine 🙂 more content on the way 👍🏻

  • @robertcovell2787
    @robertcovell2787 3 дня назад +2

    I never cease to e amused by the sound of the engine on that adorable little airplane,

  • @redblack8414
    @redblack8414 2 дня назад +4

    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.

  • @talesfromthehutandhangar
    @talesfromthehutandhangar 3 дня назад +2

    Love watching the fly abouts. Keep up the great work & have a good one!

  • @MemphisBBQ640
    @MemphisBBQ640 2 дня назад +2

    Merry Christmas, Nick! Looking forward to sharing more flying adventures with you in 2025.

  • @kbjerke
    @kbjerke 3 дня назад +3

    The "scowl" on a cold, damp startup seems to work a treat!! Thanks for sharing once again, Nick! 👍

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  3 дня назад +1

      @@kbjerke Did you spot the vaporous puff on the second start? I think that was the remains of the icing, now converted to steam.

    • @kbjerke
      @kbjerke 3 дня назад +1

      @@FlyingForFunTrecanair Sure did! She's a rip-snortin' beast! Rarin' to fly!!

  • @bentonbee1
    @bentonbee1 21 час назад +1

    Thanks for taking us along. Nick, Merry Christmas to you and yours from Iowa

  • @bentonbee1
    @bentonbee1 21 час назад +1

    I can’t believe how green your grass looks!

  • @arimington-is7gv
    @arimington-is7gv 2 дня назад +2

    Another lovely video, thanks! Happy Christmas and let’s have more great videos in 2025 ! 👍👍

  • @dianeredlich
    @dianeredlich 2 дня назад +2

    Merry Christmas and thank you for the wonderful videos

  • @Vanblade1692
    @Vanblade1692 3 дня назад +2

    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.

  • @paulhelman2376
    @paulhelman2376 3 дня назад +3

    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 .

  • @maciek_k.cichon
    @maciek_k.cichon 3 дня назад +2

    Thank you for some knowledge, insights into local airfields and enjoyable flights!

  • @1944Devon
    @1944Devon 9 часов назад

    Another excellent adventure with "FT" and one I shall enjoy revisiting many times.
    Many thanks for generously sharing more of your travels Mr. Trecanair! 😉

  • @terrywilliams557
    @terrywilliams557 3 дня назад +3

    What a Awsome little plane ✈️

  • @edwardtuijl7517
    @edwardtuijl7517 3 дня назад +3

    Thank you and Merry Christmas

  • @hernanmorelliphilip9952
    @hernanmorelliphilip9952 День назад +1

    Que tengas una feliz Navidad
    Y toda clase de parabienes y lindos aterrizajes en el nuevo año
    Con cariño desde
    Chile

  • @boots_n_coots
    @boots_n_coots 3 дня назад +3

    A trip to there and back again. Many thanks, and a hug for the little flying machine.

  • @davestarr7112
    @davestarr7112 3 дня назад +5

    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
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  3 дня назад +1

      @@davestarr7112 Blimey, a school with two cylinder Aeroncas? He must have been instructing in the 1930s?

    • @davestarr7112
      @davestarr7112 3 дня назад +2

      @@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 ,,,,,

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  3 дня назад +1

      @ A wonderful story, thank you for posting 🙂

  • @pjcarter8230
    @pjcarter8230 3 дня назад +3

    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

  • @sailor5026
    @sailor5026 3 дня назад +2

    Nice. Good holidays.

  • @tedfarwell3132
    @tedfarwell3132 3 дня назад +4

    So enjoyable!!

  • @martinpengelly9155
    @martinpengelly9155 3 дня назад +2

    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.

  • @wingmanjim6
    @wingmanjim6 3 дня назад +3

    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 !

  • @idahoairplanes1235
    @idahoairplanes1235 День назад +2

    Brilliant. Your flight and landing reminded me of a mid-century Flambards… the BBC series of course.

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  День назад

      @@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
    @Pilotfromfaraway 3 дня назад +3

    When I watch your videos, it feels like we had a visit. Merry Christmas my ole buddy.

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  День назад

      @@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 😂😂

  • @Diogo-ou6ql
    @Diogo-ou6ql 3 дня назад +2

    Merry christmas and happy landings

  • @guidor.4161
    @guidor.4161 3 дня назад +2

    Very relaxing and entertaining, plus educational. A very Merry X'mas!

  • @biljartklok
    @biljartklok 3 дня назад +2

    prettige kerstdagen en een gelukkig nieuwjaar ,thanks for all your video's ,see you next year.

  • @kbjerke
    @kbjerke 3 дня назад +2

    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!!

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  3 дня назад +2

      @@kbjerke 😂😂😂 I was going to call, the film ‘Turnpikes & Turds’ but wasn’t sure if the algorithm would like it. See you next year 🤞🏻👍🏻

  • @paulhelman2376
    @paulhelman2376 3 дня назад +2

    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.

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  3 дня назад

      @@paulhelman2376 haha, that’s wonderful! Free flight is much like the controls in an Airbus 👍🏻😂

  • @raymondhoward1581
    @raymondhoward1581 3 дня назад +2

    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.

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  3 дня назад +2

      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.

  • @GULLPERCHFLYER
    @GULLPERCHFLYER 3 дня назад +2

    Delightful as always Nick. Merry Christmas. Chris in Devon.

  • @danhubert-hx4ss
    @danhubert-hx4ss День назад +1

    Looking forward to your vids in 2025. Always interesting. Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to You and Yours from Sweden.

  • @kidmohair8151
    @kidmohair8151 2 дня назад +2

    somehow the smell of petrol made it 6000 kilometres
    into my living room.
    cheers my friend, and a merry c-mas to you!

  • @piearm1271
    @piearm1271 3 дня назад +3

    Many thanks for your content looking forward to learning more next year. Have a great Christmas and new year. Stay well

  • @clearprop
    @clearprop 2 дня назад +2

    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. 🙂

  • @Banaawa
    @Banaawa 3 дня назад +2

    Nice, enjoy the skies

  • @Volksplane1
    @Volksplane1 3 дня назад +2

    Aaahhh!🙂 Hope you get some good family and home time soon. Have a good Xmas

  • @RotaxRod
    @RotaxRod 3 дня назад +3

    Merry Christmas to you too, really enjoyed the content this year.

  • @GeorgeKnight-e7f
    @GeorgeKnight-e7f 3 дня назад +4

    beautiful landings, really enjoy your video's

  • @earlmyers9374
    @earlmyers9374 3 дня назад +2

    nice, easy, low and slow x country.....doesn't get any better!

  • @Aeroclub-Borschiv
    @Aeroclub-Borschiv 3 дня назад +2

    Nice

  • @dcmflydude6320
    @dcmflydude6320 3 дня назад +2

    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.

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  3 дня назад +1

      @@dcmflydude6320 No; my middle name is Danger, same as my more famous cousin Austin 🤣

  • @chriskiwi2601
    @chriskiwi2601 3 дня назад +2

    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.

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  3 дня назад

      @@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!

  • @Dazsvintagestuff
    @Dazsvintagestuff 3 дня назад +2

    A very Merry Christmas and a happy new year to your good self and your family 🎄

  • @spurgear4
    @spurgear4 3 дня назад +2

    Merry Christmas

  • @AlbertRobinson-v3y
    @AlbertRobinson-v3y 3 дня назад +2

    For the hp.. the C-3 does pretty good and would out run a 40hp. J-2 or Taylor Cub.. AEFT is a jewel !!

  • @WarblesOnALot
    @WarblesOnALot 3 дня назад +2

    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 !

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  3 дня назад +2

      @@WarblesOnALot Super Cub well outside my price range! Just helping the owner with changing from a Certificate of Airworthiness to a Permit to Fly.

    • @WarblesOnALot
      @WarblesOnALot 3 дня назад +1

      @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      Ah, I see...
      Carry on then, a mission of mercy, apparently.
      Stay safe,
      ;-p
      Ciao !

  • @cluelessbeekeeping1322
    @cluelessbeekeeping1322 3 дня назад +2

    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?

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  3 дня назад +1

      @@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?

    • @cluelessbeekeeping1322
      @cluelessbeekeeping1322 3 дня назад +2

      @@FlyingForFunTrecanair It's a 1/2VW.

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  3 дня назад +1

      @ 👍🏻 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.

    • @cluelessbeekeeping1322
      @cluelessbeekeeping1322 3 дня назад +2

      @@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.

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  3 дня назад +2

      @ 5.2:1, very low compression ratio. 70 octane fuel is fine;would probably run on Cognac!

  • @loomisgruntfuttock
    @loomisgruntfuttock День назад +1

    Merry Christmas! What a nice gentle film to end the year; Turnip King, was that 18th Century fast food?!

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  День назад

      @@loomisgruntfuttock I’d like to think so!

    • @loomisgruntfuttock
      @loomisgruntfuttock 4 часа назад +1

      @@FlyingForFunTrecanair 🤣🤣I think more turnpikes (and more tramways) would make splendid content.

  • @Banaawa
    @Banaawa 3 дня назад +2

    At first I thought the propellers were too small generate lift for your aircraft, what their measurements. am also working on the same project

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  3 дня назад +1

      @@Banaawa The propeller is well matched to the small engine. 63” diameter, 32” pitch. Tell us more about your project?