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kitfoxjunky(at)decisionla
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:42 am Post subject: J3 Launch from Trailer (off topic)

Hot exactly kitfox fodder...but I thought it was interesting.   An AME at the airport recently put his J3 on straight floats and used a utility trailer pulled by a pickup truck to launch it.  I have seen this done with a Stinson 108 too.  Me...I prefer the anphibs. 

 

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Gary Walsh

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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:42 am Post subject: J3 Launch from Trailer (off topic)

When I was a kid in St.  John's.  all the float planes were towed on a dolly to the end of the  runway.  the wheels were pegged straight and the plane was released to roll  down the runway under it's own power.  The plane had to be jerked off the  dolly as the brakes were set to dynamite as soon as the load was removed form  the dolly.  One of the local pilots used to take off around a half a dozen  planes that way in an afternoon.  

  

 While he was ferrying the  planes to Octagon pond the rest of the gang would hook up the dolly, tow it back  to the hangar and lift the next plane aboard using the overhead crane.  By  the time the pilot got back to the airport, by taxi the next plane would be  waiting for him.  The only plane in the hangar that didn't use this system  was CF-MPZ which at that time was a DHC-2 used by the Mounties  I think it  had Amphibs.  I've checked the registration a few times in the past few  years and it is now used by a Bell 212 owned by a company in  B.C..

  

 In the fall of the year at that  time the fire fighting unit had to purge their tanks.  S o they used to  spray down the grass on the side of the active with foam and everyone would land  in the foam.  It only took about a fifteen minute separation to allow time  for a small crane to load the planes on the dolly and transport it to the hangar  where it would be unloaded so the dolly could be used by the next plane.   Usually all the planes were landed within a couple of hours great stuff that  foam sits on top of the long grass for hours.

  

 I doubt they would let you try  it today.

  

 Noel

  

  

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