Sorry 3490 miles
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Van Dyke" <l...@vandyke5.com> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 5:10 PM Subject: Re: KR> another day, another 2.4 hours and 17 landings... >I flew 3900 miles in 10 days and I didn't get in 17 landings... wow > > Lee > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> > To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> > Cc: "Corvair engines for homebuilt aircraft" <corvaircr...@mylist.net> > Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 7:46 PM > Subject: KR> another day, another 2.4 hours and 17 landings... > > >> NetHeads, >> >> You guys are soon going to regret egging me on about the "pilot reports". >> I couldn't fly to my father's farm today because of weather on his end, >> so >> the wife said "I'm sure you can still find someplace else to fly today", >> so off I went. One of the changes I made in the last few days was to >> make >> my static ports flush mounted, with nothing more than a 1/16" hole to the >> outside world, so I needed to check my indicated stall speed anyway. >> And >> I needed a little more shakedown on the new fiberglass spinner front >> bulkhead. What better way than a tour of the airport "neighborhood"? So >> I flew down to the Tennessee river, over the big bridge, and hung a left >> and flew up river to Guntersville, Scottsboro, Stevenson, Marion County, >> Jackson TN, Fayetteville TN, MDQ, and back to M38. That's eight airports >> and 17 landings. >> >> After the first landing at Stevenson, a guy came on the radio and asked >> "is that KR pilot Bill Clapp, flying a Corvair?". I said "no, but if you >> want to talk Corvairs, I'll be back in two minutes". I was just >> impressed >> that anybody in Alabama would even know a KR when he saw one! The guy >> was >> building a Corvair for a Piet, and had one totally blasted engine that >> he'd bought first, then he got super lucky and bought an entire 1965 >> Corvair with a "new" 1969 engine in it. This thing looked brand new, and >> he hadn't even cleaned the parts yet! I spent some time bringing him up >> to speed on stuff like small block rockers and why he should keep his >> original ones (which he had thoughtfully wired into pairs with their >> balls, even though he was planning on throwing them away), preserving >> that >> pristine crank at all costs, and then headed on up river to the next >> stop. >> >> Three of the landings I did were basically tailwheel first, as I was >> trying to stretch the bottom of the envelope. Most observers would call >> it a three point landing, but the "boing" noise tells me the tail wheel >> hit first, and that always occured at about 63 mph (well, all three times >> according to the GPS, but you wouldn't believe me if I told you that). >> Maybe I can get around to extending my gear this week and do some >> comparisons next weekend (another excuse to fly). I'm thinking it will >> lower my three point landing speed a few mph. I even flew over Georgia a >> bit just to say I'd been there, and made it back home with 289.0 hours on >> the clock. Life is good... >> >> Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama >> see KR2S project N56ML 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 >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________ > 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 > > >
