Just couldn't resist. :lol:

[spadjockey]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w_v0k57 ... e=youtu.be[/youtube]

[cflord]

Spad, I love it! Check out these links from MilViz on their DHC-2 Beaver in development:

Exterior
http://milviz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5652

Interior
http://milviz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6414

Keep the shiny side up and the dirty side down!

Ret SMSgt Cliff Lord - C-130 Flight Engineer & Mechanic

[AKar]

I wonder why it tells to use JP-1 aviation fuel?

-Esa

[Killratio]

One of those new jet radials, no doubt

[Nick - A2A]

I wonder why it tells to use JP-1 aviation fuel?

Mmm? Presumably the Milviz guys are used to sticking the stuff in their Sabres and things. Anyway, I hadn't realised that the DHC-2 has fuselage tanks instead of ones in the wings. Very sensible I suppose, given the height of the wing above the ground, and the coldness of the water where they tend to operate.

Nick

[n421nj]

Any word if the milviz version will model wear and tear and damage? Its not enough for me to have an eye candy exterior and realistic flight model. I need the whole package.

[AKar]

Mmm? Presumably the Milviz guys are used to sticking the stuff in their Sabres and things.

Yeah, I hope they don't test fly the thing with JP-1... While it's an obsolete grade, I'd figure its effects in an AVGAS-using piston engine would be similar to JET-A1 being used: after the JET starts to get into the engine in significant amounts, I'd guess for less that two minutes of any usable power being produced - and more power you request, faster the pistons burn through. Anyways, I don't know the specs of JP-1.

Anyway, I hadn't realised that the DHC-2 has fuselage tanks instead of ones in the wings.

There you go.


-Esa

[Nick - A2A]

Thanks Esa. Yeah, I read somewhere that those tip tanks were optional extras. Seems they'd have been quite troublesome ones, with all the extra plumbing and stuff that would be needed. Wonder how many Beavers have/had them fitted?

Seems some DHC-2's have been modified with entirely new 'wet' wings too. Not always without problems, as this TSB report (PDF) shows.

Anyway, I've got the chorus from that 'Beaver Ballad' stuck in my head now, so thanks for posting it (again) Spad!

Nick

[AKar]

Yeah, the figure appears to be "an all-inclusive" general picture of the airplane, dating back to 1. February, 1959. No wet wings back then. I haven't checked the tip tanks, how they were.

An excellent accident report - as expected by TSB Canada, btw. If nothing else, just read the analysis part and note how they tend to approach the issues from real-life work point-of-view instead of "you should have" or "stupid error" one, even if the results were known.

Also, the case you linked is one of just the plenty of to which I base my immediate dislike towards airplane modifications - unless they are actually proven sound.

-Esa