Patrick Flowers wrote: > As long as you're doing rewinds, I've been curious a while - what happened > to the Swift?
I still have it. On my 93rd landing I forgot to put the gear down, which was my incentive to buy N891JF. I thought I was past that point, but I entered downwind too fast to drop the gear (110k max), and made a mental note to drop it after the speed dropped...and forgot. Smoothest landing I ever did in the Swift, until the "tick tick tick" of the prop blades on the runway. The skin damage wasn't that bad, but I do want to rebuild the engine and inspect the crank and gears (I'm funny about crankshafts), which will be a winter project. The wife likes the idea of having a larger plane, so we'll keep it in the inventory. The good news is they say you only do that once...and it will have a really loud horn to go with the flashing light on the panel for the "gear is up, but RPM's are low" warning... Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com website at http://www.N56ML.com --------------------------------------------------------
