Mike Hartman with WACO Aircraft Corp, gives a detailed Walkaround tour of the Junkers F 13 at Oshkosh 2022 Video sponsored by: Paradise Jets www.paradisejets.com Bryan Turner / justplanesilly
Oh, what a nice surprise! The F 13 is such a pioneering aircraft-it’s almost unbelievable that it’s a 1919 aircraft, when one sees its contemporaries. Thanks for making and sharing! 👍
Any plans for enclosed cockpit variants in the future? Does it have accessible cargo compartment behind the cabin? Is there gravity fuel tank at the rear like the original?
Insisting on keeping this open cockpit seems pretty darn stupid...There are times when authenticity is just choosing to make yourself uncomfortable and your life unnecessarily difficult.
It’s kinda what separates the bad asses from the whimps. To each their own. I’d absolutely love to fly in both the front and back of this plane. You don’t have to fly in an open cockpit aircraft if you don’t want to.
@@ErikJohnston Having part of my flight training in a DH-82 Tiger Moth, I can speak of experience in both. A nice sunny day in an open cockpit is a joy. A cold, wet and windy day in an open cockpit, particularly if you are flying cross country for hours at a time, flying low to observe landmarks to navigate, with your vision being obscured by cloud, rain, or snow, without modern flight aids like GPS, relying on map reading and dead reckoning, is very unpleasant, and downright scary. This was the norm when they were in service, when you consider that these, and related Junkers aircraft such as the W33, and W34 did a lot of bush flying in Australia, Alaska, Canada , South America and in New Guinea. I would rather run naked around a cactus garden than be flying a Junkers F-13 in the New Guinea highlands in lousy weather with 1920s instruments. They might be painfully pulling cactus thorns from your "family jewels" for months after the first experience, but your chances of survival of the second encounter, are far, far less.
@@bjolie78 True enough. However - weather can change pretty quickly, and unpredictably sometimes, which is why forecasts get it wrong so often. I would probably have a canopy made that you could fit the same way you do a hard top on a convertible sports car. I know they did this modification on Tiger Moths, particularly in Canada. That way you would be able to get more use out of a fairly sizeable investment...!😁
