Small Aircraft
Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 120; Flight Crew Total 2700; Flight Crew Type 1375
Other / Unknown
Conflict Ground Conflict; Critical
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Airport; Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors; Aircraft
I was in the middle of a day of working an aircraft with no radio.  Wind was from the southeast.  I took a load at Brawley (BWC) and taxied to Runway 08.  I stopped at the hold-short line; checked the approach to both ends of the runway.  I pulled out onto the runway; lined up on centerline; set flaps and engine condition lever for takeoff; and locked the tailwheel.  I then began the takeoff roll. A few hundred feet into the roll; I observed a cloud of dust from the north side of the east end of the runway.  I then saw a light tan colored Cessna 150 or 152 had been on Runway 26 and was now in the dirt on the north across from the easternmost taxiway. As I was already near rotation speed when I saw the Cessna more than 1;000 FT away; I became airborne; sidestepped to the right (south) and continued departure; passing well clear of the other aircraft. The Cessna must have pulled onto the runway while I was setting takeoff configuration; or perhaps I failed to see him on the base to final turn.  The dirty white and tan color of the other aircraft blended in with the desert terrain around Brawley.  The sun was near the horizon at my back; which would have affected the other pilot's view.  In any case; we both failed to see the other until we were both on the runway in opposite directions.  The lack of an aviation radio in the aircraft I was flying also contributed to the loss of situational awareness.
Small aircraft pilot reports departing Runway 8 at BWC and noting a cloud of dust at the opposite end of the runway on the north side. As the reporter rotates and side steps to the right a C152 is detected in the dirt having aborted a landing or takeoff to avoid a collision.