AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958 - (Page 46)

"AROUND THE WORLD-.,' FOR 30 YEARS". < ., *-: s^ SAFETY AIR hi AIDS à IENT% port operator had been waiting over an hour for the wind to stabilize suffi- Today'sfrusted standard for piloft and navigators everywhere For -rub navigation, you need instrument* you can absolutely rely upon. So select your needs from the world-famous ciently for him to send a student pilot up for practice. A s they waited, the ill-fated Cessna 170 with its pilot and Wwaa line , and be sure, two passengers approached from the Always Ask for fheie Two Reliables south at about 1,500 feet. It passed directly over the airport and began a W W MARK II descending left turn to a down-wind PLOWEaleg. Three-quarters of a m l away, it ie T o pilota the world over, "dotter" mean= lined up with the runway toward the Weem Mark II made of clear, laminated Yinylita. Only p 0 . . 0 A+ the Mark ZI-N, northeast, for nautical mtle navigators, ;S.SO; tk< Witnesses state that the engine had Mark Ii-NAF, for j e t chwts, $8.00. been cat but flaps were up and no effort DALTON E-68 COMPUTER (Plastic) was made to slip the plane for a landing -Standard for years in U.S. and though it was high in. its approach many foreign air f o m s and Halfway down the field the ship was most commercial airline*. Two ~ i d e s ~ o n e al vector probsolves l still 20 to 40 feet off the ground. Filems. Other solves speed-tirnenally power w a s applied and the airdistance, and general computacraft was put into a steep climb. tiona. $10, case included. Also available if high speed Dalton There i a clump of trees about s E-10 at $1in plastic (fSS in wtsl) 75 feet high at the end of the runway, and nfw, automatic E-10A at fS6, the airport operator explained. "The pilot seemed concerned about clearing THEE CATALOG describe^ complete Weems line, including home study navigation these trees and made what looked like courses. See your Aviation Supply Dealer a desperate effort to gain sufficient or write us direct. Address Dept. 1 , height," he said. Wwina System of Navigation,Annapolis, In its nose-high position, the plane Maryland. ~ruited o r n fo Air N ~ V J ~ H ~ I M seemed to lose rather than gain alti~ * tude, bat when it had almost reached the trees, the nose was pulled still higher until the ship stalled, spun and crashed with power full on. Based on the weather as reported by the CAA Communications Station, the Koch Chart which shows effect of ternBy Skycraftera perature and altitude on performance, tallied a 26% decrease in the rate of climb that evening. Model TRV .. positive that the airplane ever touched down, but it was doubtful." Other witnesses confirmed this account and watched the plane s t a r t a slow climb with full power when it reached the second half of the runway, It gained about 160 to 200 feet along the left side of the valley when it must have appeared to the pilot that he would never make it over the ridge ahead. He attempted a 180 turn at full power, stalled and crashed. One of the pilot's good friends arrived at the scene some time later and, after questioning witnesses, declared that he knew the pilot to be an experienced flyer. H owned a Bellanca Cfitiaatr e and had accumulated about 700 hours in the last five years. He had not, however, flown such a lightplane as the Cessna 120 for some time, and was not, the friend believed, "used to the peculiar 'float' characteristic of this type." One sure cauw of the accident, said this friend, was the pilot's attempting to land in a "questionable airport, an aircraft with which he was not familiar." Aerial Prospector Killed PILOT : Bank teller ; age 21 ; 20 hows? PLANE: Piper J-4 PROFICIENCIES: Student pilot N W TUNABLE E VHF MULTIPHONE OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A 2-WAY PORTABLE RADIO The only truly portable 2-way VHF comrnunicattom unit for g à § r m uircmft u r in Powered Aireroft Glicbri . HmlIaptws IDEAL FOR EMERGENCY USE. I 128 with Battery Unfamiliar Plane PILOT: Engineer; age 29; 700 hours PLANE: Cessna 120 PROFICIENCIES Private pilot : Pack It was a warm September day, about noontime. A former Air Force pilot, swimming with friends just west of the .. . .. The model TCV-128 VHF MULTIPHONE fan b* used as a dry battery portable or with Multipaws' Pack can ba plugged into any nwrcm of primary p w e r . WRITE FOX FREE BROCHURE FROM 2453 East Spring Street long Beach, Calif. Phom B A 7-86 19 final approach leg to Bass Lake Airport, Calif., looked up on hearing the buzz of an aircraft coming in from the west at about 1,000 feet. "I was very interested in tile landing and takeoff problems that a pUo& would be confronted with at this particular field." he said. The plane circled the lower end of the lake, heading in on final toward the north. It passed the lake, reaching the beginning of the runway with about 100 feet of altitude. Just at that point the pilot cat the throttle. "It appeared that his speed was too great," a witness stated, "and he floated a long way down the runway. I'm not It was approximately three hours after the accident before anyone noticed wreckage in the Oregon hills, and by that time both the pilot and a companion were dead, The plane appeared to have stalled at an altitude of about 60 feet, according to CAA investigators. A Geiger counter was found in the cabin. It was generally known that the young pilot had been prospecting tor radio-active ore in the area where the accident occurred on a number of previous occasions, though there was obvious danger of stalling a low-flytog Piper i the n steep, rolling terrain There was no evidence of malfunctioning. Both maga were on, throttle was closed, carburetor heat off and fuel selector jammed between AUX and MAIN. There was a flat stretch of land directly ahead where the pilot could have landed had he had mechanical difficulty. Contour Flying PILOT : Businessman, age 32 ; 190 hours PLANE: Piper PA-22 PROFICIENCIES: Private pilot Maybe it was just coincidence, butA man and his wife driving through the Saa Jose hills of southern California toward dusk were startled to THE AOPA PILOT

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958

AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958
Contents
Calendar
Legally Speaking
Editorial
What About Airspace Use, Mr. Pyle?
10,000 Seconds Under the Hood
Flying Weather One Month Ahead
AOPA Weathercast
AOPA 185579
Air-Age Teenagers Give City a Lift
Your Radio and You
Operation Cost Cut
Put Your Fabric to the Test
Are You "Compasss Punchy?
Yankee Duster in Latin America
South American Challenge
I Lived Through a Graveyard Spiral
Safety Corner and Accident Report
On the Airways
Travel
What's New?
Classified Department

AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958

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