I was wrapping up a job this evening when I heard a small airplane overhead. The engine sound was a bit off, sort of like a WWII bird rather than the usual Cessna's. I looked up as it went overhead and watched as flew away. It's wing was shaped a bit different with pods on the wing tips and a distinctive V-tail. Karoly would've known instantly what it was but I had to Google it. Beautiful plane.
Nice!
Thanks, I found all sorts of info on it but no pictures worth posting. That is it except the one I saw had the pods on the wing tips.
Edit: Here's a good one.
Aw yes, the forked tail Doctor killer.
I flew the 1959 model, a K35 Bonanza. It had a 250HP fuel injected engine and 4 seats.
The Bonanza could be a real handful in a cross-wind due to the goofy V-tail.
Buddy Holly was killed when the 1947 model he was riding in crashed.
I get a Piagio P180 over my house now and then :
I know what it is as soon as I hear it off in the distance. Sounds awesome.
On of our aerial photo providers here in the NW flies a V tail. Another in southern CA flies the vertical tail Beech, Model 36 IIRC. Some very clean airborne GNSS data comes off the providers plane in CA in particular, I think it is partially due to the low wing design vs a high wing plane which is more common for an aerial platform for mapping.
SHG
One of those based in the NW hit a deer on attempting to land a local rural private strip, the pilot aborted the landing and flew to the local regional airfield and did an emergency landing, messed it up pretty good, all walked away, last I heard they scapped it. My SIL works for the FBO and I know one of the controllers in the tower at the regional airfiled so I get better info than the general public when something like this happens locally.
SHG
Ian's pic
looked vaguely familiar...
you can see Cushing, Oklahoma's AP in the lower left of the frame, with Bill Smith's '66 V35 centered. Still a beautiful plane.
