On Fri, June 27, 2014 1:20 pm, Mark Langford via KRnet wrote: > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options >
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