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Post by fletcherfu24 on Aug 15, 2008 20:28:15 GMT 12
No,its just how they transported the loader driver,altough he went backwards at least he could see out,unlike the early Fletcher where the loader driver sat behind the hopper pretty much in the dark as in the early FU-24 the pilot sat in the middle of the cockpit on a bench seat arrangement.It wasn't until the 400hp Fletcher came out that there was a real second seat to take the farmer for a ride.
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Post by yak2 on Aug 15, 2008 20:51:22 GMT 12
A passenger could watch the effectiveness of the spray pattern and also there may have been a C of G consideration. My AOP 9 had a rear observers seat which could be installed facing backwards. In the interest of maintaining aircraft hygeine, I kept it conventional.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Aug 15, 2008 21:12:07 GMT 12
t wasn't until the 400hp Fletcher came out that there was a real second seat to take the farmer for a ride. Fu-24 c/n 7 N6506C/ZK-CQB assembled 2Aug55 was the first two seat dual control Fletcher. There has always been the need to accommodate the loader driver in a topdressing aircraft, as many jobs took more than one days work from the one strip. In the really early days, the poor sod had to travel standing up in the Tiger Moth's hopper.
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Post by Bruce on Aug 15, 2008 21:32:19 GMT 12
Well the RAF transports right through to the C17 have rearward facing pax seats - mind you generally they dont get thrown around quite as much ...generally.
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Post by shorty on Aug 15, 2008 21:55:04 GMT 12
That photo of BSQ at Wanganui on 17-2 56. If you look in the hangar behind you can see the derelict J2 Cub ZK-AGD as posted in my "Stash" thread.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 15, 2008 22:25:13 GMT 12
I thought the same thing Shorty, that the hangar looked very familiar.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Aug 16, 2008 15:34:33 GMT 12
Correct, the Cub at the same time:
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 16, 2008 20:20:59 GMT 12
As a 'Cub', it must have been hybernating rather than stored.
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Post by ZacYates on Dec 28, 2008 18:26:39 GMT 12
Ok, bought an Airfix Harvard yesterday with the express purpose of building BSQ, so now I need to know - mstokes, what did you work from when building your one? Just those pictures? I'd love to find some 3views, and I'm wondering how practical/enjoyable it would be to make the centresection wider...... Planepictures.net has some lovely close-up shots by our own Glenn Alderton of VH-SSY, currently the only (?) airworthy CA-28, shot at Temora in early 2006: www.planepictures.net/netsearch4.cgi?stype=actype&srng=2&srch=CAC%20CA-28%20Ceres. I've heard rumour of two other airworthy restorations in Australia.....fingers x'd we can see TWO together! Have you any other shots of SSY, Glenn?
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