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Posted on 12/30/11 at 5:27 pm to arlo
Posted on 12/30/11 at 5:27 pm to arlo
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The wifey gave me some Bowers Flybaby plans for Christmas. I think she's eyeballing the insurance money.
Nice....
my wife doesn't like to fly, so I'm on my own. With one still in College, an aircraft purchase is still a couple of year away.
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Ever hung from the straps in an open cockpit? It scared the shite outta me when I was 18, but for some reason I feel compelled to do it again.
Oh yeah....I love it! Got about 25 hours in the Stearman and 20 hours in the Texan. It's great to throw back the canopy on initial approach and have the wind in you face for landing. The sound of the radial engine is "music to the ears" and you can clearly hear the wheels "chirp" on touchdown...
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Posted on 12/30/11 at 5:38 pm to lsu_tiger_az
A local Fed Ex guy won one of the races at Reno a few years back in a Texan. When he was buzzing the house, I called the airport and said, "Alert the media! The Japs are attacking!"
It will be a race to get that Flybaby built before I'm too old to fly it. I'm looking forward to that moment at the end of the runway with the motor idling wondering if I should do it or not. I'm sure you know the feeling.
BTW, have you ever flown a Breezy?
I flew one many years ago. I hear the performance is comparable to a warthog.
It will be a race to get that Flybaby built before I'm too old to fly it. I'm looking forward to that moment at the end of the runway with the motor idling wondering if I should do it or not. I'm sure you know the feeling.
BTW, have you ever flown a Breezy?
I flew one many years ago. I hear the performance is comparable to a warthog.
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Posted on 12/30/11 at 5:48 pm to arlo
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A local Fed Ex guy won one of the races at Reno a few years back in a Texan. When he was buzzing the house, I called the airport and said, "Alert the media! The Japs are attacking!"
They always use the T-6 to mimic the Zero in the WWII war movies.....
It's a fun aircraft to fly, but you have to be steady and straight on landing. It will ground loop with the smallest inattention to keeping the aircraft straight down the runway!
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It will be a race to get that Flybaby built before I'm too old to fly it. I'm looking forward to that moment at the end of the runway with the motor idling wondering if I should do it or not. I'm sure you know the feeling.
So far I'm still "good" on the medicals....
and I only need glasses for reading the charts and runway plates.
But "that day" comes to all of us who fly.....
I'm resolved to it's coming, but I won't like it!
Posted on 12/30/11 at 6:05 pm to lsu_tiger_az
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It's a fun aircraft to fly, but you have to be steady and straight on landing. It will ground loop with the smallest inattention to keeping the aircraft straight down the runway!
I ground looped a Super Cub once, but didn't get a wing. Crosswinds! It was funny when I started planes where the manual recommended to land in a crab. Wha?
Posted on 12/30/11 at 6:28 pm to arlo
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ground looped a Super Cub once, but didn't get a wing. Crosswinds! It was funny when I started planes where the manual recommended to land in a crab. Wha?
Crosswinds are a lot tougher on tail dragger...
And I hate trying to set up a "crab" on approach into the threshold. It's too damned easy to get into a cross control situation. I just dip a wing into the crosswind on the approach and set one main down, then the other, then reduce power and let the tail settle on the runway when it wants to.
Posted on 12/30/11 at 6:33 pm to arlo
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BTW, have you ever flown a Breezy?
I flew one many years ago. I hear the performance is comparable to a warthog.
Now that's just a low blow....
The A-10 had at least an additional 30 KTAS over the Breezy!
Posted on 12/30/11 at 6:40 pm to mauser
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We don't care what they think.
you shouldn't. but, it seems as if some of the lsu fans here do as they continue to post quotes from alabama player, message board posters, etc
Posted on 12/30/11 at 7:21 pm to lsu_tiger_az
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Crosswinds are a lot tougher on tail dragger...
There is one airplane I still dream about. It was a 1946 Luscombe with mottled white paint that was parked next to the fence at the Headland, AL airport just sitting and rotting. It was owned by the local mortician, and he had a pickled original Continental engine in his attic. He wanted $6k for the package back in 1979. Holy moley! I wish I could have sent myself some money back then.
The bad thing about a Luscombe is the only tail dragger that had the mains closer together is a U2. Very squirrely, but fast for the HP.
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And I hate trying to set up a "crab" on approach into the threshold. It's too damned easy to get into a cross control situation. I just dip a wing into the crosswind on the approach and set one main down, then the other, then reduce power and let the tail settle on the runway when it wants to.
I took my commercial in a Mooney 20 (such a tiny rudder) at Apple Valley, CA on a day when the xwind was around 20kts. LOL! The windsock was sticking straight out perpendicular to the runway. When I came in for the precision landing part of the test, I was trying to push the left rudder through the floor, and had 3/4 right aileron and was still drifting to the left. It was supposed to be a hit&git, but the FE said "That's enough. You've got your ticket."
Big airplane crashes will cremate you. Small airplane crashes will just barely kill you.
Posted on 12/30/11 at 8:00 pm to arlo
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There is one airplane I still dream about. It was a 1946 Luscombe with mottled white paint that was parked next to the fence at the Headland, AL airport just sitting and rotting. It was owned by the local mortician, and he had a pickled original Continental engine in his attic. He wanted $6k for the package back in 1979. Holy moley! I wish I could have sent myself some money back then.
The bad thing about a Luscombe is the only tail dragger that had the mains closer together is a U2. Very squirrely, but fast for the HP.
The Luscombe is a great airplane....
There's always at least one at the Scottsdale Airpark Airshow every year.
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I took my commercial in a Mooney 20 (such a tiny rudder) at Apple Valley, CA on a day when the xwind was around 20kts. LOL! The windsock was sticking straight out perpendicular to the runway. When I came in for the precision landing part of the test, I was trying to push the left rudder through the floor, and had 3/4 right aileron and was still drifting to the left. It was supposed to be a hit&git, but the FE said "That's enough. You've got your ticket."
Big airplane crashes will cremate you. Small airplane crashes will just barely kill you.
Sounds like a 9.5 on the 10 point Landing Sphincter Scale...
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