Willy's Calamitous Cargo Run

***Willy*** · May 10th, 2011, 15:10

Went over to Marcos to make a deal with this AAF supply officer there. He some wrecked C-46s on hand that he needed to dispose of and I had some "supplies" that he could use. Ended up with enough C-46 pieces to put one together. O' course, since it was an under the table deal, we had to lose any data plates with serial numbers along with any identification markings on the outside. At least I did get a bill of sale for the scrap pieces.

Anyway, we've got it all together and somewhat flyable although Fred hasn't got enough C-46 time to talk about. I also figured Fred could do the flight engineer thing as well as co-pilot. We're hoping to finish tweaking on the engines soon so we can start back down south. (In other words, I've got few more tweaks on Gunter's Real Engine modules to finish up).

Hope to be able to take off for RPMD soonest....

***Willy*** · May 10th, 2011, 18:30

Let's see how this fine aeroplane flies. RPMT to RPMD With Real Engine to keep things honest.

***Willy*** · May 10th, 2011, 19:03

Nice short flight that I flew as light as I could (0 payload and 10% fuel). The big Curtiss flies very well and I managed to keep from blowing up the engines even though I did strain them a bit. All part of the learning curve I guess.

Now off to find a cargo that needs to go in my general direction....

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFli...HPnhjbysQHZEHA

***Willy*** · May 10th, 2011, 19:19

It just dawned on me that there are a couple of Corsairs heading this way and Corsairs use R-2800 engines like the C-46 does. Parts delivery?

***Willy*** · May 11th, 2011, 19:20

Heading out for WAMR on the SOH server. Hope I can keep the engines together.

***Willy*** · May 11th, 2011, 20:12

The engines turned out to not be a problem. I got a blue screen of death about halfway through the flight. I'll try to refly later on.

***Willy*** · May 14th, 2011, 19:06

Let's try this again... off to WAMR

***Willy*** · May 14th, 2011, 21:16

Success! Well, at least my comp didn't croak on me this time.

Actually, it was a nice flight with really good weather and other than overheating the cylinder heads and oil taxiing around after I landed, it went pretty good.

Darned if this C-46 aint slower than a SBD. Even after I swiped... er... "borrowed" a R-2800 off of PRB's Corsair after he landed at RPMD....

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFli...d981lKqYS3UOqA

***PRB*** · May 15th, 2011, 05:16

Originally Posted by Willy

It just dawned on me that there are a couple of Corsairs heading this way and Corsairs use R-2800 engines like the C-46 does. Parts delivery?

Mine's available now, sitting behind the big red hangar at Davao. Not sure how great a condition it's in after I got through with it...

***Willy*** · May 15th, 2011, 12:18

Parts is parts

***Willy*** · May 15th, 2011, 18:44

Pressing on to WASS here shortly. Maybe even WABB if I seem to be making good time.

***Willy*** · May 16th, 2011, 11:41

Made it to WASS just fine, but couldn't post the results due to SOH being down for maintenence last night. Nice flight with the radio/cd player running to drown out Fred's nonsense. I was a bit high on approach so I circled a bit until I was low enough for final.

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFli...pLminigjxR4dks

***Willy*** · May 16th, 2011, 19:06

Making preperations to get underway for WASS to WABB.

***Willy*** · May 16th, 2011, 21:34

Made it on in to WABB although it was a bit foggy there. Strained the engines a bit on take off, but they held together.

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFli...3nrRcZXiU920G8