Steve, If we are talking about Q's and Dragonfly's then I would agree. There are some planes that you can more than recover the hard cost of building. According to my EAA chapter buddies, a well

kittleson1@... wrote: I did ask a real question... "When in effect, could the sink rate be zero when slowing from 80 to 65.. or is that where the Q runs out of elevator? Would reflexors

Absolutely!

panzera@... writes: Since engine stoppages are the leading cause of loss in Experimentals I too think that we should be giving this phase of the flight a bit more attention

Bob, thanks for taking the time to give real numbers in response to Pats completely reasonable questions. It is clear that you have the skill, the awareness and the professionalism to accurately

One Sky Dog, thank you for a most interesting find. Waxing your Mooney = 8 HP! and sheets the water? How intriguing! One of our previous contributors was lamenting the fact that 600 grit was

Forrest, I said all that with tongue in cheek. I don't know of anyone in the experimental world that has even broken even on the sale of their plane. I haven't and would be happy just to recover the

In the interests of making Mikes job a bit easier, would anyone benefit from having the VG information posted to the List? As promised, I hunted up the Info I have which consists of the Original Q

Thanks, Bob and Mike. Good info! David J. Gall

jtenhave@... writes: John, Just got home from Reno fri. I found the reference it is a CAFE report on effect of waxing aircraft on speed. John R. is mentioned concerning a comment made

For the record on one plane. My Q200, solo, with 15 gallons of gas, weighs around 980. The numbers look like this. Best glide speed 115 mph for a measured 10.9:1 glide ratio. That's with the engine

Pat, I'll be off line for the majority of the next month. I do check my e mail when I can. If you have a REAL question that perhaps can benefit others, I'll do my best to come up with a

Mike Dwyer wrote: Excellent! Thank you! So final glide can be flown at 120 to "make it home". We know that we can trade excess speed for altitude... And there's the "flare"... when slowing form

Hi Mike, I mentioned to you before that I HAVE A 36" SCANNER, AND A SIZE "E" PENCIL PLOTTER ( excellent for making changes on the paper then rescanning for a revision.) I think that the easiest way to

kittleson1@... wrote: So then, V speeds mean nothing to a Q? 10,000 of flight experience and training, and you've come to this conclusion? One small point. I'm not advocating that we

We have a nonsmoking motel room at the Country Haven Inn for Friday and Saturday nights that we don't need. Anyone still looking for a place to stay contact me. If I haven't heard from anyone by

Owen wrote: If you can get this whole url into your browser, I believe it to be the exact road map location of Coffey co. airport. You can use it to generate driving directions to/from almost any

Hi guys, Just got the latest weather outlook for our Tandem Wing Fly-in next weekend and it looks so good, I'm almost scared to talk about it looks so good. But here it is! Thursday: Temps: Low 51,

jtenhave@... writes: Thanks for the good words John. Doug "Hawkeye" Humble Omaha NE N25974 A Sign Above

writes: I musta miss the link too! What is it? Doug "Hawkeye" Humble Omaha NE N25974 A Sign Above