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G'day all,

Well I have been thinking about it for a while and have looked at all sorts of aircraft and I have finally taken the plunge and bought a 4 Seat Aircraft.

I have given in to the presure of family life and got something we can all go flying in, rather than leaving the trib on the ground looking up watching me have all the fun

Its call a BEAGLE Airdale A109. For all those not familar with the breed its basically an Auster with a nose wheel (Brittish Aircraft), although its blood lines date back to Taylorcraft from the good old US of A.

Its sort of a 150 with four seats and 180HP with CS prop, and believe it or not its actually aerobatic, having said that I'm not, although I might think about doing a few lessons to see how I go if I can pluck up the courage....

Anyway, Ill put a few pic's here for you all to have a look at,

The basic number are...

Stall 38Kts
IAS 105kts at 24" and 2450RPM
6 Hours of fuel with 4 on board
Usable weight 474KG
Fuel Burn 38lts P/H normal cruise

Cheers

By the way, the 150 still has a home here with me(after all they are a had aircraft to part with) unless of course anyone makes me an offer I just cant refuse

And another from a different angle

And one of the panel

and lastly, how cool is this, its even got a sun roof for the front and back seat passengers not even my wife overpriced 4x4 has one of them

Matt- Thats a great looking bird! I know what you mean about having to look for a bigger airplane. My wife is pregnant with our second child and I can see the writing on the wall. So my father and I are looking at 172 skyhawks.

Hey, we got to get y'all to Clinton in 06!

Matt, pretty neat! I never heard of this airplane. Pretty attractive numbers.

George

Michael,

G'day,

Feeling the pinch too ah, it was a hard decission to make as in one mind, I want to share my flying with my family, however, what I am really affraid of is that in the next few years they decide, OK, flyng is fun, but here are other things they want to do, and I end up flying around by myself in an aircraft the sucks more fuel than I really care to feed it whilst flying on my own - if you know what I mean, anyway its too late now the money has been spent and its sitting there int he hangar waiting to be utilised.

Good luck with your search for an appropriate aircraft, as I mentioned earlier, it was a pain staking effort as the only real aircraft that meet the challenge was the Cherokee 180E (or similar) and this one, and as it was hard to find a cherokee here in OZ that would pass the test, s in condition and at the right price, this seemed to be the go, plus an underlying desire from many years back to own a classic aircraft. I did not mention that there were only 43 made of this type, however having said that they share most of the parts of the Austers or which there were quite a few make over the years. I forgot to mention that in the deal I also have access to around two other aircraft here in OZ that were bought for parts by the group of Beagle owners, what I mean by that is, there are 6 here in OZ with only 4 flying examples, the 2 non flying aircraft are parts for the remaining 4, one fuse, two sets of wings and a whole bunch of other bits and pieces

Cheers

By the way here is another pic from front on, you can kinda sort of see whay they call it a Beagle, look's like a dog with big brown ears in the pic - think of Pluto and you'll probably see it.

As to Clinton 06, can't wait, it was just killing me watching everyone else having such a good time while I was here at home - Next year for sure, be bring the family along as well, funds permitting

George,

G'day,

Yep, the numbers are pretty good, and it has a good solid feel in the sky as well, however, the only problem is I contacted the VG people, and they don't have a kit VG for this aircraft - darn, I was really looking to see how slow it would go with them, and any other advantages of inflight performance....never mind

By the way George, (or for that matter anyone else), if you are interested in more info on the aircraft or its heritage, have a look at the this address

http://www.austerclub.com/Company_History/Short_History.htm

Cheers

And their own set of vents. Nice!

- Jeff

Matthew,

Funny looking plane! It looks like a joy to fly, too. Congrats!