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    Draco..

    Anyone following Juan Browne will know of Draco. Maybe you've come across this aircraft elsewhere, an incredible STOL competitor which was crashed and totalled recently, fortunately with no fatality or even real injury. If so, the following might give you cheer..

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    Yes, I subscribe to his channel and was speachless when he totalled it. Cudos to him for admitting it was 100% his fault. Can’t wait until he gets it back into the air again, it’s a unique aircraft.
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    Fascinating that people from diverse backgrounds follow the same things.
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    I follow heaps of aircraft and flying channels - in another life I was a Pilot I think. I love the Engineering and the flying. 👍. Quote a few bush and back country Pilots have channels about their adventures - would be a great crowd to hang out with.
    If you need to contact me please email homestarrunnerau@gmail.com - thanks - Gav.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Homestar View Post
    I follow heaps of aircraft and flying channels - in another life I was a Pilot I think. I love the Engineering and the flying. 👍. Quote a few bush and back country Pilots have channels about their adventures - would be a great crowd to hang out with.
    I'm a bit older than you, and I remember books. A man I admire enormously, even though he died about 60 years ago, called Nevil Shute, wrote a book called An Old Captivity. As was the case in all Shute's books there was a romance, but the book was focussed on flying an aerial survey of some place in Greenland.... in 1937. What the pilot had to do, what he went through, the physical and mental cost of flying in those latitudes. It's bloody hard now, with heaters and camps and GPS. Imagine it then. Blows me away.

    In case you think Shute was merely a writer, google him. He had a few strings to his bow that would surprise most.
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    Ha ha - you’ll never believe this but I’m reading ‘No Highway’ by him at the moment. I’ve read it before, and others by him but not ‘An Old Captivity’ - will see if I can find a copy. 👍

    Yep, quite a fellow - he was an Aeronautical Engineer and moved to Melbourne later in his life. 👍

    My Dad put me onto him years ago, there are quite a few of his books still on the shelves at Mums place (Dad died a while back) - should see what is there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Homestar View Post
    Ha ha - you’ll never believe this but I’m reading ‘No Highway’ by him at the moment. I’ve read it before, and others by him but not ‘An Old Captivity’ - will see if I can find a copy. 👍

    Yep, quite a fellow - he was an Aeronautical Engineer and moved to Melbourne later in his life. 👍

    My Dad put me onto him years ago, there are quite a few of his books still on the shelves at Mums place (Dad died a while back) - should see what is there.
    Like I said, you continue to surprise, Gav. No Highway is brilliant. Mr Honey... Elspeth. Marjorie Corder, Monica Teasedale, the Reindeer.. That was written, as my mom would say, post war. I would ask, which one? An Old Captivity was 'tween wars, in the narrow focus of British Subjects, which some of us were. Great book though.

    Shute wrote a few books. He died of a heart attack somewhere in Mornington I believe. There is a street named after him in Berwick. In another book, "In The Wet", he mentions the old Casey airfield, named after Lord Casey, which is now a sportsground.

    If you like that sort of thing then I'd recommend all of his books after maybe Lonely Road. Not bad, but a little immature, as Shute himself said in a preface to "What Happened to the Corbetts". I agree, but his writing in What Happened was good, so I keep it in my list.

    But 'An Old Captivity' was when he started to become great. 'Landfall', which followed, is a truly great story about young love in a World War. It is one of my faves.
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    By heck, that Draco is definitely STOL! I've not seen it before.

    Re Shute, I think I've read all his books.

    Have you read his autobiography, "Slide Rule"?
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    Quote Originally Posted by p38arover View Post
    Have you read his autobiography, "Slide Rule"?
    I sure have. Can't speak for Gav. Slide Rule would be an inspiration to someone with ambition. Kinda what I was saying about googling him. Bloke was a genius. The aircraft he designed were amazing.

    Edit: Shute would have loved Draco..
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    I am so very glad that 1) Juan got out ok, and 2) he is rebuilding Draco. I still can’t believe it got totalled though!
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