401 looks about right! That’s me in the back seat! Well done! Where can I get that livery?
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Should be available tomorrow, just some last minute tweaks to do.
For those interested in trivia…I could not fly the T-33 in the front seat because of my upper thigh length. If I had ejected, the canopy bow would have cleaned off my kneecaps! People were generally smaller when this thing was designed.
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I had a few hundred hours in the T-Bird back in the day…and have a few stories if anyone is interested…in many ways a great airplane!
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Please share!
Ok, love to share some trivia. Cdn version might be different on other versions…you could jettison the tip tanks.The only time you would do this if one of them failed to feed, resulting in a huge imbalance. Saw this done once on the infield of our airport…cool! My regret here is that I never got a trip in the one with no tanks. It took a while for them to refit it!
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What would the difference in the no tips plane have been for you?
As I said, I never got to fly it without the tips but reportedly without the drag and weight of the tips, if nothing else the roll rate was way better.
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If you were patient and careful with the EGT…you could get this beast up to 40,000’!
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The problem was, once you got there it was like balancing a baseball bat on your nose…the slightest input and you had issues. You needed smooth hands on the controls. The benefit was amazing fuel milieage1
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What was the cabin altitude when the airplane was at 40,000’?
I don’t know exactly what the cabin pressure was…but the system was not that good by today’s standards. The oxygen system was more or less automatic…at sea level it fed you ambient air, as you ascended it fed more oxygen into the mixture…at 40K (maybe 25k) cabin pressure, the system started started “pressure breathing” where is was feeding you oxygen under pressure.
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First three RCAF liveries now available on flight sim.to
https://flightsim.to/file/82381/canadair-t-33-silver-star-mk-3-no-3-advanced-flying-school-rcaf
https://flightsim.to/file/82370/canadair-t-33-silver-star-mk-3-central-flying-school-rcaf
https://flightsim.to/file/82368/canadair-t-33-silver-star-mk-3-428-squadron-rcaf
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