Flight Report
|
jnmarstall <jnmarstall@...>
Yesterday I cranked up the Q and headed east out of the mountains of NC to the coast of VA. Made two previous attempts but morning fog postponed them. Yesterday the fog burned off at 10:00 so I headed to Newport News to have lunch with an old Air Force pilot training classmate. It was worth the wait. The wx was spectacular. Not a bump one in the air, no clouds in the sky and visibility was 30 miles (really something for around here). I climbed to 7500' where the wind was light and variable. Had a 2-4 mph tailwind component all the way. (oddly enough had the same component coming back at 8500'.
I set the A/P, stretched out and watched the world fly by. According to Dr. Dynon, I was truing 170mph. That must be pretty close because I traveled the 356 miles in 2 hrs 6 minutes. I didn't think that was too bad for an obese tri-gear weighted down with baggage and tools (I always bring tools because I usually have a need for them along the way (no comments Terry) - not this time!!!!!). Had a wonderful lunch, and swapped war stories for 4 hrs and came back home in the same smooth air. A widely scattered layer developed at 5,000' just to give me something beautiful to look at on the way home. Its times like these that make the 14-year building process and all of the following "tweeks" REALLY worth it. As all the others say, "Keep building. You will be glad you did." Jerry Marstall 608 hrs |
|
|
|
Kevin Boddicker
Cool Jerry! I can imagine how fun the flight was. Good to hear from you. Kevin On Oct 3, 2013, at 7:46 PM, jnmarstall <jnmarstall@...> wrote:
|
|
|
|
Great flight report. On Oct 3, 2013 8:46 PM, "jnmarstall" <jnmarstall@...> wrote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dave Dugas
Nice to hear about your flight. I am still waiting for a starter for the Revmaster, hopefully before the snow flies. Dave D Sent from Samsung tablet -------- Original message --------
From jnmarstall <jnmarstall@...> Date: 10/03/2013 8:46 PM (GMT-05:00) To Q-LIST@... Subject [Q-LIST] Flight Report Yesterday I cranked up the Q and headed east out of the mountains of NC |
|
|
|
jnmarstall <jnmarstall@...>
Just hand prop that bugger like in the old days.
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
J On 10/4/2013 8:28 AM, Dave Dugas wrote:
|
|
|
|
To all activly flying, You fellows are what amateur building and EAA are all about. I really enjoy reading of recent trips and of the flight assistance given to builders you see. I hope we read about more flights where there is flight detail like you outlined in your report. You guys give us builders and rebuilders great motivation to keep at it. Very nice! Calvin Thorne Cochrane Alberta Cell & Text 403 860-7582 Q2 (Revmaster) C-GMBK VE6CXX track CGMBK at (www.aprs.fi) Aircraft building web page: http://users.xplornet.com/~vision/44/tailfeathers.html (Sent from ASUS tablet ---In Q-LIST@..., <q-list@...> wrote: Yesterday I cranked up the Q and headed east out of the mountains of NC to the coast of VA. Made two previous attempts but morning fog postponed them. Yesterday the fog burned off at 10:00 so I headed to Newport News to have lunch with an old Air Force pilot training classmate. It was worth the wait. The wx was spectacular. Not a bump one in the air, no clouds in the sky and visibility was 30 miles (really something for around here). I climbed to 7500' where the wind was light and variable. Had a 2-4 mph tailwind component all the way. (oddly enough had the same component coming back at 8500'. I set the A/P, stretched out and watched the world fly by. According to Dr. Dynon, I was truing 170mph. That must be pretty close because I traveled the 356 miles in 2 hrs 6 minutes. I didn't think that was too bad for an obese tri-gear weighted down with baggage and tools (I always bring tools because I usually have a need for them along the way (no comments Terry) - not this time!!!!!). Had a wonderful lunch, and swapped war stories for 4 hrs and came back home in the same smooth air. A widely scattered layer developed at 5,000' just to give me something beautiful to look at on the way home. Its times like these that make the 14-year building process and all of the following "tweeks" REALLY worth it. As all the others say, "Keep building. You will be glad you did." Jerry Marstall 608 hrs |
|
|
|
To all activly flying, You fellows are what amateur building and EAA are all about. I really enjoy reading of recent trips and of the flight assistance given to builders you see. I hope we read about more flights where there is flight detail like you outlined in your report. You guys give us builders and rebuilders great motivation to keep at it. Very nice! Calvin Thorne Cochrane Alberta Q2 (Revmaster) C-GMBK ---In q-list@..., <jnmarstall@...> wrote:
Just hand prop that bugger like in the old days. J
|
|
|