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Hello Monty,
This discussion brought back thoughts I had when I was active in our
local Soaring group. I thought a three rotor would work well in the
nose of our Piper Pawnee for towing. Your are correct in that the 0-540
engine does not make full TBO standards. The trick is at release to
dump full flaps and slowly reduce power as the engine cools while
diving for the runway. In a perfect launch, the temps and the flare
occur at about the same. It is amazing that for the most part we were
getting pretty good engine life.
Good to see your post.
Ray
MONTY ROBERTS wrote:
Al, that picture was taken a few
years back. I wish I had been out there recently. Tehachapi is a neat
little town.
Monty
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could have
been me he was talking about at one time. I don't remember the altitude
here, but we made it to 16.5Kft with no engine. Had O2 for going
higher, but the wave was weak that day and we never could get into the
laminar layer. My Bladder was the limiting factor on staying up. This
is looking at California City, Edwards is at 2 O'clock. The Viggen from the
national test pilot school went screaming by about 1000K feet below us
on this flight, we talked to the tower at Edwards....pretty cool.
Awesome place for aviation.
Monty
This was
Sat.; about 15:00. My
route was a few miles west of you, going south. I was at 9500’;
planning to climb to 11.5K as I approached the mountains, but after the
call, and looking at the terrain and the clouds; I concluded the sail
planes would more likely be 11K and up; so I stayed at 9.5 which still
gave me OK terrain clearance if I picked a low spot. The ride was a
bumpy, but apparently clear of the traffic.
Al
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I attended a
homebuilt sailplane convention in Tehachapi in my RV. there is a tow
pilot there who drops out of the sky in a Pawnee. I witnessed this
amazing feat while on final as he landed and got off the runway in what
appeared to be a controlled crash, actually leaving me plenty of time
to land. what a difference from my airport where the 172's power in
from 2 miles out, the barn doors dropped and we wait, and wait.....
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