Bill, glad to hear that you are okay.  The plane, as we well know, can be fixed, provided you are there to do it.  Pat says we rotate at 85, not 65.  We typically fly 4 people and luggage and travel coast to coast several times each year.  We are flying out of a 3200' runway.  It is very noticeable, both in the front and back seats, when we fly "heavy" if we get off the runway earlier than 85-90 knots.  Very squishy.  Just doesn't want to get right up there and climb.

Photos from our window blowout are attached.  Probably the scariest part, from the passenger point of view (having taken ground school classes was enough to know your flaps are important) was looking out the window and seeing the flap sliced clean through (notice you can see sky).  The window, or parts of it, skipped across the wing (missing the fuel tank by inches) and you can see the flap damage.  The door pic is what was left of the window upon landing.  Nothing came out of the cockpit in the swirling 280 mile per hour wind (we immediately slowed). No flap landings in a IVP is fun!  Good thing we have speed brakes.

Things we learned:  with a cut flap, slow down at 300-500 feet per minute to avoid any pieces coming clean off and possibly taking out the tail; if you have a back seat passenger, immediately unplug their headset (wind noise in the mic amplified and we could not hear controllers at all);  and fly the plane all the way to the ground.  BTW, over AZ in July at FL210 it is 15 degrees.

Priming now and then ready for paint, detail work on the door, and clear coat.  Same luck as Bill . . . we are here to do the work and fly again.

Susan Brunner
IVP and still going