Seen Over Your House Today

[jcf]

Light aircraft with retractable undercarriage always look somehow odd to me 

I know eh ! Like they're just flying around looking for a place to crash......

Exactly mate

Does that include this one:

[Logan Hartke]

Light aircraft with retractable undercarriage always look somehow odd to me 

I know eh ! Like they're just flying around looking for a place to crash......

I generally agree with this, though there are definitely exceptions.  Obviously, low wing monoplane light aircraft don't count, but even then there are a few.  Jon's example is lovely, and one of my favorite light aircraft of all time had retractable undercarriage:



Cheers,

Logan

[PR19_Kit]

I rather like the look of the Cessna Centurions with retracts, mainly because I flew one in California some years ago.

That 'clunk' as the gear goes into its wells is a very 'different' sound. 

[kitnut617]

Light aircraft with retractable undercarriage always look somehow odd to me 

I know eh ! Like they're just flying around looking for a place to crash......

Er! say what ------




Doesn't seem to work as a flying boat either ---

[Captain Canada]

Ya I think it's just the Cessna's that do that for me...just so used to seeing them with wheels dangling down that they don't look right when they aren't !

What was that first one atop this page ? Beautiful aeroplane !

[PR19_Kit]

What was that first one atop this page ? Beautiful aeroplane !

The clue is in the title written on the piccie......... 

It's a Heston Phoenix.

[NARSES2]

The Phoenix is a beautiful aeroplane but when I first see it, it just looks wrong to my eye. Almost as though it's been poorly photoshoped. It's simply the way my mind works 

The Staggerwing on the other hand somehow looks right ! Crazy I know but the human mind is a strange thing. It might be the bulk of the radial verses the slenderness of the in-line ? It's probably a "me" thing

[Logan Hartke]

Not just you, NARSES, I feel the same way about both designs.  I think the Staggerwing looks so "right" because of its signature feature.  That lower wing conveys some of the aesthetics of a low wing monoplane and retractable gear looks just fine on those, so I imagine that's why it looks "right".

Cheers,

Logan

[darthspud]

Bloody Super Lynx decided to do hover practice right over the back garden just as I got home.
Wastelands products, keeping Yeovil away from Cider for 70 years, unsuccessfully!

Apparently we aren't allowed to call them super lynx, they are Wildcats.
Still  a bag of bolts made by ......

[pyro-manic]

The Super Lynx is a different project, originally dating from the mid-80s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_Lynx#Super_Lynx_and_Battlefield_Lynx

There was a Wildcat blatting around over work a week or so ago.

[Thorvic]

Working from home again and spotted an Airbus Beluga flying over the house on what must be its way to the factory at Broughton.

An hour later had a pair of Merlin HC3 fly over probably onto that annual exercise that the Ian the 'Kiwi-Gatherer' used to report on near Southport, obviously taking the route up the east of the Pennines and then west using the M62 as a guide over the hills and into Lancashire

[NARSES2]

obviously taking the route up the east of the Pennines and then west using the M62 as a guide over the hills and into Lancashire

All that expensive kit and they still navigate like "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" 

[bobbo]

IFR:  I Follow Roads (Rivers, Railroads) . . . .

bobbo

[lancer]

Speaking of light aircraft with retractable u/c. I had one floy over this afternoon. A Cessna by ther look of it, about 250ft and going like the clappers.... Must've been in a hurry. Still looked kind of nice

[scooter]

IFR:  I Follow Roads (Rivers, Railroads) . . . .

bobbo

The motto of all Cub pilots