Excellert report Mark L. Sounds as if you are finally really having fun. I am really looking forward to you hopefully flying up here for Airventure. Have a great weekend flying. I am off to board a Midwest Airli nes spam can to head to Georgia. Hopefully, I can give some good flight reports next week.
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Wales, WI web page: http://mywebpage.netscape.com/n886mj e-mail: flyk...@wi.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:27 PM Subject: KR> red letter date > KRnetHeads, > > Last night I put some Tempurfoam on my carbon fiber seat. One inch of the > blue "medium" density on the bottom, and one inch of "soft" pink stuff on > the seat back. I needed to try it out, AND beat the tropical storm that is > threatening to screw up our weekend. > > Although it was supposed to be stormy for 40% of the day, it looked decent > enough at lunch time for me to sneak in 3 hours of pretty decent flying, > mostly just a big series of circles, back and forth, whatever, and then 5 > touch and goes. I even got it up to 7000 feet and 180 mph. I've determined > though that top speed is only about 165 mph straight and level at 3000 ft, > until I clean it up aerodynamically and get the right prop. On the way back > to work the bottom fell out and we got our thunderstorm. > > But at quittin' time it looked pretty good so I went back and flew another > three hours! I had tweaked my static ports some more so I did some stalls > at 6000 ft. This time I really stalled it (50 mph indicated with flaps, 55 > without) the left wing dropped, and I got to look straight down at the > ground! I also have the aileron trim just right, so I can now steer by > leaning left or right in calm air. Afterwards I flew down to Moontown (M38, > the grass strip where I got my taildragger endorsement) and did my first > landing (in N56ML) at a different airport than MDQ! Spent a half hour > showing the plane to Gordy (Lionheart pilot) and Emily (the local > instructor), and then flew back to MDQ (in about 5 minutes!). Did five more > touch and goes at dusk and really squeaked a couple of them on in the calm > air. > > It still drew what passes for a crowd on landing, and the comment of > "lookin' good" from the Medflight chopper pilot. I never even thought > about the foam on the seat, or any pain in my butt, so I guess the > Tempurfoam works. I topped it off before I left the airport, so now I'm > ready for a "cross country" to Guntersville Lake next time I get a chance, > with another landing at a "strange" place. I called my father on the way > home and gave him the dimensions for the tiedown locations that he's going > to be installing next to my brother's C-172 parking spot at the grass strip > on his farm. > > OK, I'm ready to say it > now.....YeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!! > > Mark Langford, 23.5 KR hours down, 16.5 to go! > Huntsville, Alabama > see homebuilt airplane at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
