X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.196] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.6) with ESMTP id 927693 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:42:55 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.233.184.196; envelope-from=wdleonard@gmail.com Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 55so1018121wri for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:42:10 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=GbDy7n/Iqd9YTbB3riYLr1hkhxpmHYtN4BNy3WVdCYoBxc/j+4T0Hmq3aK9NeWd96pyJhzz6U5hQxlw4GzuS2Qa50DHUpzhKa8SnFS2sesXnBeOK19iElkRjKLgh7JPIEsft0/qFV4zBunysE5X9uhuqi/PQAcLnCtY1yyWlhtM= Received: by 10.64.210.10 with SMTP id i10mr2500896qbg; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:42:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.142.19 with HTTP; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:42:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1c23473f0601151442x128abc49qfdabc35aaa50ef83@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:42:10 -0800 From: David Leonard To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Good News, Bad News - not really bad In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_73638_236894.1137364930192" References: ------=_Part_73638_236894.1137364930192 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Wow Ed, Fantasitc that you plane was not in it... that you cant have someone else rebuild! Glad you had a good trip. Dave Leonard On 1/15/06, Ed Anderson wrote: > > Hi folks, back home after the trip to Florida. It was sort of a good > news/bad news trip. > > Took off Thursday morning about 1015 after ground fog had lifted. Cool > morning and engine hit 6200 rpm on take off roll. Landed shortly afte= r > 1pm at Shady Bend on Thursday, after making a low 200 MPH pass down the > strip. Was welcomed by Tracy's delightful wife Laura as I taxied up to t= he > house. Spend Thursday evening in great company including Jessica, > Tracy's grandchild who is staying with them. That was the good news. > > The bad news {:>) was that Jessica was now occupying the "guest" suite, > the good news was Laura had reserved the living room couch for me. The b= est > new was - nobody snored. (different story) > > During Thursday evening it was clear from looking at the forming weather > patterns and despite the favorable forecast of a day earlier, a two prong= ed > front was rapidly advancing on the Southeast. It was clearly looking lik= e > any flights from north of Florida on Friday would only happened in the ve= ry > early morning. Later that evening a small secondary pre front line forme= d > out over the gulf and moved over northern Florida precluding even an ear= ly > Friday flight. > > Poor Laura is the one faced with making the decision whether to Postpone > the Flyin or not (after all that work). Well, it finally became clear th= at > even if the Flyin was held with mainly Florida attendees, that Saturday w= as > going to be cold, windy and miserable at Lakeland. So Laura made the > courageous decision cancel the RV flying. That's the bad news. > > The good news is it was not cancelled but only postpone until next week > end, so those of you still desiring and able to make it, I encourage you = to > do so. > > Then Laura had to notify a list of people that would have made the > pentagon emergency recall program boggle. But, she pressed on until the = job > was done. Great lady! I called Cappy early in the morning so he could po= st > the news on the RVSoutheast list. > > The good news is I got to spend three days at Shady Bend with Tracy and > Laura. Managed to help Tracy with a few things on the airplanes, discuss= ed > my AOA project and contributed a radiator cap to his RV-4. (Yes, I do f= ly > with a spare). > > The bad news was I got a phone call from the wife (which was unusual) on > Saturday and Laura had clearly detected a stress level in my wife's voice > which she let me know when she called me from the work shop. The good ne= ws > was that the wife was stressed, but there was no tragedy. > > The bad news was - my wife reported that my hangar had blown away Friday > night. Laura reminded me that I ask the wife three times during the > conversation to confirm the news {:>). > > That's right the hangar is gone! The good news is that my aircraft was no= t > there but in Tracy's new hangar. Well, nothing I could do about it, so > decided to continue my very enjoyable visit and we all went out to dinner > Saturday night. > > I had attempted to show Tracy my new fuel monitoring system in operation. > The bad news was that upon touch down at Shady Bend it stopped working. = The > good news is I found If I wiggled the cigarette lighter, power would be > restored and it would work - so got to show it to Tracy. The bad news wa= s > that when I flew back and any time I wanted to check my fuel burn/ Air Fu= el > ratio, etc, I had to reach across the cockpit and wiggle the cigarette > lighter. The good news was that it would then work. > > I launched out of Shady bend at 0945 with 6500 rpm showing on the tach! > Stopped to refuel at Waycross, GA at 1030 and took off again (naturally i= n > to a 25-30 MPH headwind). I normally cruise burning 7 GPH and today that > was giving me a ground speed of 138 MPH. I finally said to hell with fue= l > economy and push the engine up to 10 GPH burn rate. Ground speed moved u= p > from 138 to 168 MPH - that was more like it!. > > > Made it back to North Carolina and home airport at 1230. Made one pass > and the bad news was that the bad news had been accurate. The hanger had > been lifted up and blown backwards off the concrete slab and crumpled up. > The good news was neither hangar to the side was even touched. > > It was amazing, the storage cabinet was upright, empty cardboard boxes > were right where I had left them, empty buckets had not been moved, even > paper on my work bench were undisturbed. But, the hangar including my > recently installed electrical wiring were all gone in the rubble and the = end > of the hangar. As Laura had put it, it appeared that I had been hit by a > micro-burst, surgical strike (tornadoes had been reported in adjacent > county). > > So the bad news is NO Hangar for my airplane! The good news is a > neighbor has room for my aircraft in his hangar. > > I finally concluded that the gremlins that normally plague my flights > missed my take off and couldn't find me so took it out on the hangar. > > So now have to start deciding what to replace it with. It took me six > weeks of day long labor to put up the first Quonset hut standing on > scaffolding 15' above the concrete pad back six years ago leaving me with > tendenitis in both elbows that took six months to go away. So I am 99 > percent certain I am going to have the new hangar built rather than build= it > myself - life is too short. > > So have not added up the good news/bad news column, but my aircraft and I > can still flying- so that's the best news. > > Well, that about wraps it up. Otherwise just your ordinary Ed Anderson > trip {:>). I will post some photos of the hangar tomorrow - right now, > going down to fix myself a cold tall one. Will catch up on any e mails > addressed to me tomorrow also. > > Best Regards > > Ed > > Ed Anderson > Rv-6A N494BW Rotary Powered > Matthews, NC > eanderson@carolina.rr.com > -- Dave Leonard Turbo Rotary RV-6 N4VY http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/rotaryroster/index.html http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/vp4skydoc/index.html ------=_Part_73638_236894.1137364930192 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
Wow Ed,
Fantasitc that you plane was not in it...  that you cant have som= eone else rebuild! 
Glad you had a good trip.
Dave Leonard

 
On 1/15/06, = Ed Anderson <eanderson@= carolina.rr.com> wrote:
Hi folks, back home after the trip to Florida.&nb= sp; It was sort of a good news/bad news trip.
 
Took off Thursday morning about 1015 after ground= fog had lifted.  Cool morning and engine hit 6200 rpm on take off rol= l.     Landed shortly after 1pm at Shady Bend on Thursd= ay, after making  a low 200 MPH pass down the strip.  Was we= lcomed by Tracy's delightful wife Laura as I taxied up to the house. &= nbsp;=20 Spend Thursday evening in great  company i= ncluding Jessica, Tracy's grandchild who is staying with them.  That w= as the good news.
 
The bad news {:>) was that Jessica was no= w occupying the "guest" suite, the good news was Laura had reserv= ed the living room couch for me.  The best new was - nobody snored. (d= ifferent story)
 
During Thursday evening it was clear from lo= oking at the forming weather patterns and despite the favorable forecast of= a day earlier, a two pronged front was rapidly advancing on the Southeast.=   It was clearly looking like any flights from north of Florida on Fri= day would only happened in the very early morning.  Later that evening= a small secondary pre front line formed out  over the gulf and moved = over northern Florida precluding even an early Friday flight. 
 
 Poor Laura is the one faced with making the= decision whether to Postpone the Flyin or not (after all that work).&= nbsp; Well, it finally became clear that even if the Flyin was held wi= th mainly Florida attendees, that Saturday was going to be cold, windy and = miserable at Lakeland.  So Laura made the courageous decision cancel t= he RV flying.  That's the bad news.
 
The good news is it was not cancelled but only po= stpone until next week end, so those of you still desiring and able to make= it, I encourage you to do so.
 
Then Laura had to notify a list of people th= at would have made the pentagon emergency recall program boggle.  But,= she pressed on until the job was done. Great lady!  I calle= d Cappy early in the morning so he could post the news on the RVSoutheast l= ist.
 
The good news is I got to spend three days at Sha= dy Bend with Tracy and Laura.  Managed to help Tracy with a few things= on the airplanes, discussed my AOA project and  contributed a radiato= r cap to his RV-4.  (Yes, I do fly with a spare).
 
The bad news was I got a phone call from the wife= (which was unusual)  on Saturday and Laura had clearly detected = a stress level in my wife's voice which she let me know when she called me = from the work shop.  The good news was that the wife was stressed, but= there was no tragedy. =20
 
The bad news was - my wife reported that my hanga= r had blown away Friday night.  Laura reminded me that I ask the = wife three times during the conversation to confirm the news {:>).
 
That's right the hangar is gone! The good news is= that my aircraft was not there but  in Tracy's new hangar.  Well, nothing I could do about it, so decided to co= ntinue my very enjoyable visit and we all went out to dinner Saturday night= .
 
I had attempted to show Tracy my new fuel monitor= ing system in operation.  The bad news was that upon touch down at Sha= dy Bend it stopped working.  The good news is I found If I wiggled the=  cigarette lighter, power would be restored and it would work - so got= to show it to Tracy.  The bad news was that when I flew back and any = time I wanted to check my fuel burn/ Air Fuel ratio, etc, I had to reach ac= ross the cockpit and wiggle the cigarette lighter.  The good news was = that it would then work.
 
I launched out of Shady bend at 0945 with 6500 rp= m showing on the tach!  Stopped to refuel at Waycross, GA at 1030 and = took off again (naturally in to a 25-30 MPH headwind).  I normally cru= ise burning 7 GPH and today that was giving me a ground speed of 138 MPH.&n= bsp; I finally said to hell with fuel economy and push the engine up to 10 = GPH burn rate.  Ground speed moved up from 138 to 168 MPH - that was m= ore like it!.
 
 
Made it back to North Carolina and home airport a= t 1230.  Made one pass and the bad news was that the bad news had been= accurate.  The hanger had been lifted up and blown backwards off the = concrete slab and crumpled up.  The good news was neither hangar to th= e side was even touched. 
 
 It was amazing, the storage cabinet was upr= ight, empty cardboard boxes were right where I had left them, empty buckets= had not been moved, even paper on my work bench were undisturbed.  Bu= t, the hangar including my recently installed electrical wiring were all go= ne in the rubble and the end of the hangar.  As Laura had put it, it a= ppeared that I had been hit by a micro-burst, surgical strike (tornadoes ha= d been reported in adjacent county).
 
So the bad news is NO Hangar for my airplane!&nbs= p;  The good news is a neighbor has room for my aircraft in his hangar= .
 
I finally concluded that the gremlins that normal= ly plague my flights missed my take off and couldn't find me so took it out= on the hangar.
 
So now have to start deciding what to replace it = with.  It took me six weeks of day long labor to put up the first Quon= set hut standing on scaffolding 15' above the concrete pad back six years a= go leaving me with tendenitis in both elbows that took six months to go awa= y.  So I am 99 percent certain I am going to have the new hangar built= rather than build it myself - life is too short.
 
So have not added up the good news/bad news colum= n, but my aircraft and I can still flying- so that's the best news.<= /div>
 
Well, that about wraps it up= .  Otherwise just your ordinary Ed Anderson trip {:>).  I will= post some photos of the hangar tomorrow - right now, going down to fix mys= elf a cold tall one.  Will catch up on any e mails addressed to me tom= orrow also.
 
Best Regards
 
Ed
 
Ed Anderson
Rv-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
Mat= thews, NC
eanderson@carolin= a.rr.com



-- Dave Leonard
Turbo Rotary RV-6 N4VY
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