Flying the Twin Beech (Beech 18)

I didn't fly 7-0 tango Bravo here during Oshkosh I just flew in and then I'm gonna leave again he is soon but I did have a very memorable flight in a twin beach that's the beach 18 wonderful airplane Jeff Schultz who I know from Beach Talk offered me a ride and here's how that went this is my 1956 Beechcraft the 18s it's a twin Beach it's got two radial engines they're nine hundred eighty five cubic inches and they produce 450 horsepower they're carbureted supercharged engines so they lose manifold pressure as you gain altitude the airplane seats seven to eight depending on a configuration it has face to face seating and a bench that can be placed in place of two seats it cruises about a hundred and fifty knots hundred and sixty dots depending on how much you you want it's a conventional tailwheel airplane and it's a handful on the ground but it flies beautifully once it's in the air the tail wheels non steerable so you steer with differential braking differential power I have owned it for a year and a half prior to that it was originally delivered to Dallas Love Field I have pictures from the Internet of it with no paints at Dallas Love Field in 1956 for a good chunk of its early life it flew corporate executives around it was owned in Oklahoma and Washington State in California I believe the Washington State owner was a dentist and he I believe he was a navy veteran it's actually never been a military airplane but because if he was a Navy veteran I believe he put the Navy training command paint scheme on it and remembrance of his military history I don't know that for a fact that that's from its history and its location when it got painted that's where I suspect all right who is excited about a twin Beach right you got the two vertical stabilizers that's very characteristic entrance to the aircraft is via the este door yes their doors here in the back and then we get into the cabin storage space on the right this looks like it might be a potty seat here it is a potty seat and then we go one two three four five seats in the cabin and I could get used to that and the cockpit [Music] and I said in it once before the windshield looks pretty small from here but the visibility from this plane is actually excellent both forward and and to the site and there are these windows up here on both the right and the left side that provide very very good visibility out of the cockpit I can't help but take a quick peek at our neighbor here the albatross wow that's a beautiful airplane good morning so I'm gonna give each of you a chance and the copilot seat all right who among you is a multi-engine pilot just Galen that way not quite Martin is working on his Martin got a ride in the copilot seat on Saturday so gaylen's have been the takeoff position a couple things to note that there's a safety chain right here on the door that hooks otherwise it's a standard Beechcraft airstair door twist it open twist this way to latch it there's emergency exit on the right side right behind the table you lift the cover you push the button you pull the lever you shove it out if it's an emergency don't worry about my airplane if it's not an emergency don't open that door oh my go do the takeoff briefing now so that everybody hears it so we're gonna taxi out whatever runway we get we're gonna have plenty of distance we're gonna line up and we're gonna set 30 inches looks good sounds good we're going to release the brakes then we're gonna set 36 and a half or shy of that just a bit whoever's in the copilot seat can let me know because then I can keep my eyes down the runway twin Beach has a castering nonce terrible tail wheel it is lockable but it can get a handful on the runway once we get 36 power take-off power set by that time the tail will be flying so I'll call take tail flying airspeed alive we get the rotation which is between 90 100 miles an hour we'll rotate our decision point is the gear in transition if the gear is in transition we're going to continue flying and have an engine failure be a airborne emergency will do the drill mixture props throttles flaps gear identify verify and feather feather is a button on top there's two one for each engine you push it it feathers you hold it in unfeathered after we take off we reach blue line we'll start climbing and once we're climbing at blue line we set take climb power which is 30 inches 2,000 rpm if we have an engine failure after that point will increase the power to maximum continuous which is 33 inches 2200 rpm if that's not enough we'll go to takeoff power but it shouldn't be we're not that heavy you have an excited load of passengers here including me so here's the chain guys and it just hooks right there this was because people kept banging their head on that bulkhead war break ground the red and white twin beach next to albatross in arm six I'm ready to start I'm just giving a ride the red and white twin beats to the to the left of the albatross thank you okay so it looks like the way this works is pilot has to call the warbird ground control tell them he's ready and start up should happen any moment you want a checklist there's one play over on with a few locks great I've never I just do it myself but if you want to follow along go ahead alright coming back with the yoke everybody got your seatbelt fastened start the right one first clear my side not yet get everybody hear me I can't Thank You sounds like they want to do is a run up here so 3/4 gonna wait a little bit warm up we're gonna wait a bit to warm everything up yeah we're out here on the road well then what do I run up right here fyodor to take her for home okay be good sounds like we're gonna get the two-seven departure can you put that page nice customer information papa one two five to two whether went to 6:05 visibility Niner sky clear temperature to 1 0.18 out timber three zero one seven runway two-seven runway three six eleven years before the punchers follow the direction of the EAA what am i back [Music] that's a better check [Music] we're out just about 6 3 9 2 mega turning your twisting [Music] next video dude you're ready to depart is that correct Oh baby got Marshall with him oh my back dump it hold it I got it happy oh well waving him up and down he's got you keep going come on back there she is coming left they're on going to to seven right over here oh yeah I'm making that Bonanza nervous they move way over yeah and you wouldn't hey he doesn't want to tip your Wang and B he doesn't want his family Jilla hero easy purchases 7059 food spots on made its crew briefie script as presented I think you'd better let me read through that I'll shut up mouth open my pants stock bypass what's the right word for that off again a little shut up bypass off they go yeah kinda thoughts ideally a fellow oh yeah 87 ruin everything and our you have a ziggity sixes started with the 101 degree checkerboard see you got an option favorite I think you've got another foot or two you can give here but not now he's pulled ahead big big fun of wheat free kick from Zynga did you see the weight tip he's good as we did on him I think so I'm not sure he looked good here he fixed everything up quite a thick bottom from which he's done under that what's the one two weeks he point to his back and said one two and an orange straight out four to the right 2 7 2 3 6 degrees added below 1000 so we're closed up with her arriving aircraft still be in town at 1800 top of you 26 you're clear for takeoff runway two-seven why we need your rolling down to him I picked this up for fat Janka yeah Titan like that I saw him doing it and I'm like why do you do that so I tried it one time like pretty comfortable it's comfortable what is that guy doing which guy okay Turkey final that is a hell of a final if he claims that so final holy crap get yourself back to center line hey coordinated don't go it no you get don't spit in on top of me he's gonna make it but that was bit not uncoordinated thirty forty fifty go every guy's your seatbelt fastened I got a blur and every tough throw there's its outsider only teeth over line avoid left sided on hands my son is on that cross they cross that runway a photo thing sure cut towards those cones and 340 angles they're bigger they give you a whole thing give me a home run right I don't know therefore we don't need it but I hope like laughter right yeah idiot block click model equipped ago I'd asked for middle please I wouldn't want to give you a sign our website we're not there for clear for takeoff it goes sit on a ball go around oh yeah spokes but Anthony tracker only choose that a lot of away for running through the traffic and hip the whole runway not sure you can get too old I think I'm gonna put back up you can take off put in the clear for takeoff bro we need them Godhead loved the rumble of those engines I just love the ruff all those engine I always do timer transponder and Lily surrounded by the brakes of this whole mission when I'm ready to fly any airplane we got enough to keep a nice tight pull right up to this big shirt they're right behind them we could get a reduce runway or this apartment you're not the whole tourist we go all their forties Danis 125 feet thank you fine against the barge you're straight out head to q70 far right to 360 Hannibal one two three did you give him via pilot like Rome accused of the Crips got it 3w offer like you said a lot of await right so dot didn't get it I think he's doing it you've only cheese gotta clear for takeoff my twin speeches that run when g7 louder boy I get the center line from each yep that's my plan for you go up bigger they locked the world's finest babies hell will unlock feature clips let's go sounds good foolish through seven either way right so that you got it you got it 35 35 minutes alive Taylor's my baby I think sure barely good reset across the runway across you are a cheat 7 LCD we're heavy turn right at 5 g 3 come down Ellie that blue vine refinement vehicle bears in progress my second husband attack you link it way to the red ball that he cross and behind him and stand attack van on the other side there and mighty serve by an Avianca Vega in a lot we don't need to climb everywhere overtaking already Turkey on the south side when we choose the amount of weight left over that coming up on 1330 20 turkey clear for takeoff Zoomer golf but my nipple he writes out of that that's on the stuff I might avoid let us out of that I bet that Aerostars that's the other stink off that is something else to the ready to clear big on that arrow start might be off the left we're definitely Brown are we teeth set amount of oil rights out of that Green awaits us nonetheless that's not you clear for takeoff Yello I can't they'll quit what you're a lot of we thought they left out of that they just went downhill he started accelerating yeah but angle just say what you need on freak they said I had to be a VFR they said it's down here can we just do be a bar 13 or that direction yeah she's a reporter bigger and I didn't do my three brothers very well out of a we right side what's up oh I'm supposed to be a 1,300 epsilonc are bigger better not has anybody up here keep dealing on a buoy flipped over hurry up our departure straight out to some of the early we're in the class get out boy wonder he's got robot route 70 with a fair figure I waiting over the gravel pits target descent sorryi lolling over the ground pissed aren't you descent so as your roll out if you look left you'll see if iron hole Broadway and been there before if they do today sure you have it right up here mr. almost straight to the left now almost head of the way oh yeah Ledo Donovan streetcars rolling over the orange dot here we go and premiered yes sir you gotta go around there slow go around for music go around go around go around thank you you just want to stay with me and under the dhawan premier jet oh I would click it to close it 60s out there five miles boy hangers don't never let up jump in jump that you can offset to the right nose down when you can actually just enter the download from there six generator to download thanks thank you we're gonna keep turning your faith and just over the graph that you're following a for your meerkat he's just turned in the crosswind in front yeah he's gonna be wide so they're gonna be falling if you want to wide it out to the left ting concerns a cabin sign-on and the sister of the dollar and the rut bar those polyps removed right there widen out just right there ways for me so I know you thank you very much following the premiere sarmento you can turn your face keep your basis tight as you can you're inside traffic on a about a three-mile final premier dead 6gr turning on the bass thank you you clear the land for being dead tried to clear land secure the red and white lonely the follow up your beard you turn your face turn your faith highway turn your base budget colleges gums for landing I've never heard becomes let's see you sketch see the boost eat Gump see is what I actually do because they get you your carburetor II and then I had timer transponder trip brakes smoking mission assurance all on the orange dot put it down the orange does you get the aircraft on the control I need you I don't want we're just good job you're clear to land and you can make your first I just makes your minds off turn it off oh no sir Roger land sixth gear thanks 30 for the climber let it come back better Kyle and I want you to keep charity before keep coming all the way did they weren't stopped what if Donnelly or is that keep it airborne to the orange dot and then as soon as you can laptop in the grass I'll return days Tywin in the downward turn you three to keep it coming around all over the orange odd also keep it coming all the way down to the orange top I'm here inside about a two mile finals the highway that turn in beige now I used to practice out here and the island in the winter and came out here it was snow and the lake but I was practicing like this so I was looking left and right up here north to south totally lost my horizon got total vertical eat it on the ground and you have never come out here practice again just scared the crap I mean I just saw that the one 907 I might use that lamp [Music] somebody can we switch yep first [Music] any question uh yeah this is a pretty thing awesome out of the heck of a view you can't do me a favor there's that switch there put it on left or right rear some two clicks to the right perfect thing they're flowing before yeah cata piously dude let's let some students how old are you fixed it heavy snow load yep alright what do you what if he's alone 180 Georgie right no [Music] elevator trim is here aileron letters normal I'd feed on the pedals this is a rudder airplane watch this look straight ahead I'm going to take your feet off the pedals come on through no rudders and watch which way the nose goes grows up with the juice explicitly opposite directions right 182 our Gees got a more balanced [Music] caught you flies if I say I have the flight controls not take it back okay okay give the flight control okay they were helpless 267 we buy the Yankee watch out did you lose mounting again I'll pitch up to minors oh yeah - plan on their rivets that's your level okay they work great for an hour heads-up display [Music] for me it's between right about this one right here but you're a little lower so it's by lower okay I haven't you slow for about 200 feet a minute hey [Music] what else do you fly my dad has a Grumman Tiger uh I actually flew that here alright go ahead and give me a right turn to West at 3,000 all right you want flying good bet you have a flight control [Music] beat the house and heading a West Fargo about another mile or two and then I want you itself again we've gotten a little further so we go right over the Boy Scout camp Bob seeing it yeah looks like bunch of scouts are there about hey quit the camp when I was in Boy Scouts like that now in Amarillo Texas it's dry and hot go ahead turn right to the way do it great [Music] okay [Music] which your trips gonna be hopping the speed off now yeah all right let's go ahead and let my cry about it thank you very much here welcome [Music] yes sir [Music] it fedja seat belt fastened else's house go ahead and turn the cabin hang on to the left of that dial there one more over you go you have to turn down on every fasten your seat belt please [Music] all right and if you do one more thing before we totally take the fuel selector gage and put it on the right main right Maness in front again right front right front you got it far make sure we stayed four miles from Fondulac and here is the arrival okay so we fly to Fondulac at 2800 row I left my house to go [Music] and then we prepare we call and then we they'll have us go to Warburton Island which you can see right off the nose [Music] and they'll think with its it from warbirds Harbour Island how busy do you think the arrival is at this time let's try motor but touchdown run like three six right cleared alanis green square do you think like real quick hi wing over the highway starts at Ethan at the rest red knows that Mustang red reporter to my initial delicious see 6 2 pi or a base 3 6 rights to fix Roger only threes the trek clear land on the green dot clear Lance we secrete grease out Rogers the high-wing taildragger in debates turn in now 3/6 left clear land yellow dot a vision is everybody going to three six right Crick three six right for defense or a great stair set set thank you very much England on my route Red Square now it's one copy Oshkosh cow red white to impeach model a bird right win beach for the island for the eyes 2020 is our pattern speech power setting under carries not yet mixture it up spot when I hit and the high-wing over when I put it down left turn to the grass for left turn into the grass Paula Blackmon Hey well we go over the highways start it down do you want to sit that policy six out of the red strip a form of ethnic bread square okay we're going low-wing do you see the chief dick short final blow down low and haloing all him three six rankbrain square clear land that was a departure off three six prop a short file threes but I keep it airborne out of the Red Square what's he supposed to be that high that stuff looking good on me thirteen hundred until you're cleared the class results up at that time I went till dryer over the highway starts decent moody turns final three six right red square clear to lamp and enough thing in the overhead went to which direct did you wonder part after this one thing I'll call it for right over the island I'll probably have us do a right bait for three sick Oshkosh Thai red white and beige warbird Island join beach support you might be annoyed with the car but no such reason as Becky said that's pretty much right over this beat playing bass I'll try and get you a good view of it focus have you been out there no that'll be Saturday Oh Jordan 340 the afternoon I go to see that's a good day to go out of the plane start our descent here basically we're always three six bracelets skinnier Emily at our after the Red Square they Corvo might be sequestered they poured affirmative r36 let's lipstick a little ethnic left pen okones these airplanes were just it's amazing these airplanes were designed without computers you know some guy with the four by three six of right skinny runway at her after arrest partnered with some was that Mustang mother wife we heard earlier yeah where is the seaplane base from here it's cold right in front of us all okay good job blowing ever after the red sweater after the red splurt thank you real all the way to the end three stick figure on all the way to the end but when set it down for me put it down for a second back up enough there's another traffic off our nose apply impart your insight there's another one over there Quinn ray please firmly three cigarettes that was for us I don't think we're gonna weigh Marchetti bottle and highway on the left they keep it in tight for me keep it in tight runway three six right the skinny and three six great you're gonna land after the Red Square burnt wait three six right you're clear to land keep it inside for me right - it made you - well right mate Fred and whites win beat your father they left solos face their clothes another way little forward roadway three six left lipstick up toy beat set it down on the green square form a skinny run my order at three six right green squares are life three things left i wings oh boy Jenny you're ugly highly guys three six four eight three six pairs of skinny runway after a tour after the red dot tobey's turnitin farming third and on the green square form a straight six ray of skinny right away on the green square yellow every civil war bird of them I read em are reversed the war bird island where a barber every guy's seat belt fastened I mean ever report to my alright babe all right babe they said chief that green dot by Green Square yeah which is the first square of the threshold I went on the skinny runway all the way down keeping everyone for me all the way down a door after the Red Square after rolling out you're gonna realize where the highway is right now that's what we're supposed to touchdown I got orange or white mark anywhere burger thank you card your way Mike any reports you a little last year I rejected 3:6 right I went rolling out on these candy where my good dresser would roll it all the way down to the end welcome back keep it down the runway down the runway for me Red Square out her up to the Red Square all rolling all the way to the end all Caressa a gentleman kicked off a green square yeah that Cessna is still I don't know if that's gonna work it'll work okay blowing let's play starts defense could be thrown out beautiful job thank you all the way to the end nice landing on the square yellow RB demo tomorrow right throw it on base for 360 where the reference yes said the RB just keep it coming keep it coming near number two right now you're number two you're falling a high wing on a left base having a let base keep it in tight for me keep it in tight straight to the Red Square big boards were there behind the yellow RV before discontinuing bound for the right base three six break my high wing turning final good job three six raised three 6 way it looks like a bonanza Bonanza turn is fine on 360 a you're cleared to land after the Red Square I'll be your front of bonanza three six three six breaks clear to land by corporate ground red white put be chopped three six right looking for orange six it's good to be challenged affirmative okay yes all the marshals will have one nap he makes a left turn what that aren't six it was that way you were pranking again which runway are you in attacks in George I believe they take me two steps but I just still attacking out and I'm right next the flight line operations uh backing out Oh fun right now might clear that cone okay yeah the tanks waiting queue up in line and once he's close to the runway the controllers out there will be holding up a factor with the frequency for you to monitor it'll be a little bit that looks like there's a long line this morning yeah I'd have to wait a bit horse this all the way in these are going out oh yeah it's autumn it's all the way in okay if you could hold the sign up for him every side oh look at the tail wheel lock hold it higher they can't see it right over the top I bout to get that off oh that's a lot of departures come on back [Applause] oh man that view alone here p47 is about a gold alright on our left side you want me coming yup he does [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Jeff that was a real feat thank you very much you're very welcome Jeff thank you again for this wonderful experience I really enjoyed it and I hope you did too until next time fly safe as always appreciated like and subscribe see you soon alright [Music]

Channel: Martin Pauly

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Rating: 4.8700314 out of 5

Keywords: twin beech, beech 18, beechcraft, Beechcraft 18, Beechcraft model 18, flying, historic airplanes, vintage airplanes, vintage aircraft, historic aircraft, Jeff schulz, oshkosh, airventure, warbird, warbird arrival, Oshkosh warbird arrival, twin beech 18, twin beech 18 aircraft, twin beech startup

Id: On01OcxAjMI

Length: 45min 54sec (2754 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 18 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Martin_Pauly]

My friend Jeff Schulz from BeechTalk kindly invited me to join him on a couple of flights in his Beech 18 during AirVenture 2019. I had never before stepped onto a Twin Beech, let alone flown in one. I was impressed by the spacious cabin and the performance.

Compared with my A36 and even even with a Baron, the many systems, switches, levers and gauges in a Twin Beech sure look like a handful to handle. I captured one of the flights on video. I hope you enjoy the result.

- Martin

[u/1lamenamegame911]

Pretty dang cool, as the kid said.