Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 10/21/2019 at 08:55 • Filed to: None

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Happy Monday. 

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 10/21/2019 at 09:26

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The car really should be a corvair.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 10/21/2019 at 09:33

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also:

https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N3091V

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 10/21/2019 at 09:54

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Worth note, if the FAA registration is correct, that’s a first year of production Bonanza (1947) . One of the two things in the picture is still in production, interestingly, and it’s not the ‘60 Dodge.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/21/2019 at 10:05

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More than 17,000 built according to Wiki. Nowhere near the Cessna 172 though. More than 44,000 of those have been built, more than any other plane in history. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 10/21/2019 at 10:11

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Purportedly there were 262,000 Darts made in ‘60, excluding wagons. I wonder if there are more surviving Bonanzas now than ‘60 Darts?

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/21/2019 at 10:14

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There probably are. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 10/21/2019 at 10:18

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I made a mistake. It’s a Polara, not a Dart . 42,000, which makes the number of survivors question likely a lot clearer.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/21/2019 at 10:23

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Those fins are......interesting.

user314 > ttyymmnn 10/22/2019 at 10:22

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The Fork-Tailed Doctor Killer. 

ttyymmnn > user314 10/22/2019 at 11:35

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I find it interesting that we don’t see more V tails. I guess at the end of the day they aren’t that great of an idea.

The Fouga Magister comes to mind.

The Supermarine Type 508 which never entered production.

Republic toyed with the idea on the XF-91.

Oh, and the Y F-23 had a sort of V tail.

And of course the Global Hawk and the Predator. I’m sure there are plenty more that I just can’t think of right now.

user314 > ttyymmnn 10/22/2019 at 13:46

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There’s a couple GenAv jets, the Eclipse 400 and Cirrus VisionJet

The idea is that with only two tail surfaces you cut down on weight and drag, but in practice the tail surfaces have to be larger, and the fuselage has to be longer, than would be with a normal tail.

FWIW, The Bonanza’s reputation as a “doctor killer” may have been unearned :

a detailed analysis by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of accident records for common single-engine retractable-gear airplanes in the United States between 1982 and 1989 demonstrated that the Bonanza had a slightly lower accident rate than other types in the study.

Now, there was an unusual cluster of wheel-up landings, as well as gear retractions on the ground, due to the gear lever being a little too close and a little too similar to the flap lever, but post-1984 Bonanzas redesigned and relocated the gear lever, and added squat & throttle position sensors to prevent the gear from retracting on the ground or at low power settings. Most other accidents resulted from pilots flying into weather from VFR conditions, and admittedly the Bonanza’s V-tail does not handle imbalances well. Eve n an improperly done paint job can induce aeroelastic flutter, which in severe cases can rip the tail and aft fuselage apart.