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Title: Wild takeoff from somewhere in Russia
Post by: Nypsy on October 25, 2012, 07:03:02 AM: How much mud can a turbo prop eat?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uWUG1FuALaw
Title: Re: Wild takeoff from somewhere in Russia
Post by: Stalwart on October 25, 2012, 09:39:27 AM: Quote from: Nypsy on October 25, 2012, 07:03:02 AM
How much mud can a turbo prop eat?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uWUG1FuALaw

Holy Cow!~

I thought that was a flying boat until it rotated.
Title: Re: Wild takeoff from somewhere in Russia
Post by: ebfd11 on October 25, 2012, 09:46:31 AM: I guess they factor in at least an extra 500 lbs due to mud....!

Check list

Fuel 25000 lbs
Passengers 6000 lbs
Luggage 5000 lbs

Ok we are good to go.... Nope we are 500 lbs too heavy... Kick Mabel and Martha off the plane , I forgot to factor in the mud...

LawnDart
Title: Re: Wild takeoff from somewhere in Russia
Post by: zack1234 on October 25, 2012, 09:47:53 AM: That's how the Russians do things in peace time :)

Would not want to fight a war with them :)
Title: Re: Wild takeoff from somewhere in Russia
Post by: AAJagerX on October 25, 2012, 10:53:20 AM: The comment: "Needs Mudflaps" cracked me up.

:rofl
Title: Re: Wild takeoff from somewhere in Russia
Post by: GScholz on October 25, 2012, 11:06:59 AM: That's just how Russia is in the season of "rasputitsa". The word may be translated as the "quagmire season".

During WWII the VVS and Luftwaffe regularly flew under similar conditions as that An-24/26.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4ChYkkGSg

:O
Title: Re: Wild takeoff from somewhere in Russia
Post by: cpxxx on October 25, 2012, 11:56:53 AM: The issue was never in doubt. :rofl

The skydive strip I used to fly off would often have standing water and mud on it. Although it was solid underneath. I have video which shows a take off and it was similar to that. More like a speedboat than a plane. You could actually hear the splashes over the noise of the engine. It looked worse than it was though as we factored for it and stayed lightly loaded. But we dare not stray of the actual runway. I once did while taxying and the nosewheel sank into the ground with the prop cutting daisies!
Title: Re: Wild takeoff from somewhere in Russia
Post by: B4Buster on October 25, 2012, 12:14:57 PM: Wild! It took him a long time to get that nose wheel off.
Title: Re: Wild takeoff from somewhere in Russia
Post by: Waldo on October 25, 2012, 04:34:30 PM: Runways are too expensive, Mudways will have to do.
Title: Re: Wild takeoff from somewhere in Russia
Post by: tmetal on October 25, 2012, 04:54:17 PM: I just wonder if all that mud and water affected the flight characteristics or the center of gravity after it had dried in flight.
:noid
Title: Re: Wild takeoff from somewhere in Russia
Post by: camnite on October 26, 2012, 04:18:22 PM: Quote from: tmetal on October 25, 2012, 04:54:17 PM
I just wonder if all that mud and water affected the flight characteristics or the center of gravity after it had dried in flight.
:noid

so thats where dust storms come from
Title: Re: Wild takeoff from somewhere in Russia
Post by: Babalonian on October 26, 2012, 06:23:57 PM: Is it mud then that makes "brown ice"? :uhoh
Title: Re: Wild takeoff from somewhere in Russia
Post by: Vulcan on October 26, 2012, 08:46:59 PM: Why do I have this mental image of a drunk russian at the stick?
Title: Re: Wild takeoff from somewhere in Russia
Post by: perdue3 on October 26, 2012, 08:52:36 PM: Quote from: Vulcan on October 26, 2012, 08:46:59 PM
Why do I have this mental image of a drunk russian at the stick?

I dont know actually. Taking off from a damp grass field is tough. I cannot imagine what a complete mudhole would be like.