Photos From Palm Springs

Scenes from this past week at the AOPA Expo:

http://www.pbase.com/flyingphotog/aopa_expo_2006

Includes some of the Outbound Parade Of Planes.

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL
Chandler, AZ

Thanks for the pix.

The Cessna Vision is interesting. Imagine a light airplane that's easy to
get in and out of!

But whoever picked that color should be fired.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Hey! You wre there too! I did the same thing during the 'parade of
planes' exodus from the static display area.

For my dad's 70th birthday I had him flown down from his home in Washington
state to San Jose International where I picked him up, Thursday morning.
From there we drove to Palm Springs, CA. We checked out the digital
presentation of "One Six Right" on Thursday evening and had a great time (my
dad had never been to Palm Springs Or an AOPA Expo) Friday and Saturday.

I had a great time and now find myself wondering if I saw you there, but
didn't, of course recognize you.

My only fault I found with the AOPA Expos (I've been to a good handful of
them, just about every year) is that they DESPERATELY need to add more
seminar topics. Most of the topics for the seminars are ongoing repeats
from many years before.

Dad and son had a great time though!

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Good Flights!

Cecil E. Chapman
CFI-A, CP-ASEL-IA

Check out my personal flying adventures from my first flight to the
checkride AND the continuing adventures beyond!
Complete with pictures and text at: www.bayareapilot.com

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -

"We who fly, do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with
this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet"
- Cecil Day Lewis -

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:22:34 -0700, "Jay Beckman"
wrote in :

Scenes from this past week at the AOPA Expo:

http://www.pbase.com/flyingphotog/aopa_expo_2006


Nice work! Thanks.

(followups set to r.a.piloting)

In rec.aviation.piloting Jay Beckman wrote:
Scenes from this past week at the AOPA Expo:

http://www.pbase.com/flyingphotog/aopa_expo_2006

Thanks for the pictures!

In http://www.pbase.com/flyingphotog/image/70301772 (Cessna LSA
concept), there is an odd-looking device coming forward from the end
of the right wing. Do you (or anyone) know what this is? My guess is
that it is some kind of special instrumentation for research, like some
kind of pressure sensor, or possibly an antenna.

Matt Roberds

wrote in message
...
[...]
In http://www.pbase.com/flyingphotog/image/70301772 (Cessna LSA
concept), there is an odd-looking device coming forward from the end
of the right wing. Do you (or anyone) know what this is? My guess is
that it is some kind of special instrumentation for research, like some
kind of pressure sensor, or possibly an antenna.

Looks like a pitot tube with a tennis ball on it.

It's common for aircraft flown for certification purposes to have a special
pitot tube place well outside the bulk of the air disturbance caused by the
wing and fuselage, such as seen in that photo.

The tennis ball, well...you know.

Pete

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:39:33 -0800, "Peter Duniho"
wrote in
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The tennis ball, well...you know.


A large day-glow colored cover that makes the pitot mast more
conspicuous, so that its exposure to inadvertent damaged is reduced,
as well as reducing the ports' exposure to the elements?

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
...
A large day-glow colored cover that makes the pitot mast more
conspicuous, so that its exposure to inadvertent damaged is reduced,
as well as reducing the ports' exposure to the elements?

Uh, sure...that must be it.

Surely it's not there just because someone involved in the handling of the
test airframe got sick of poking his head with the pitot.

Peter Duniho wrote:
It's common for aircraft flown for certification purposes to have a
special pitot tube place well outside the bulk of the air disturbance
caused by the wing and fuselage, such as seen in that photo.

That makes sense. I was thinking it might be a pitot tube, but the ones
I've seen so far (on 172s and 182s) only stick out a couple of inches in
front of the wing. Those "short" tubes, though, just feed the standard
instruments on an already-certified plane.

The tennis ball, well...you know.

I don't know about Palm Springs in November, but I know that in Tulsa in
July, if you forget to cover up the pitot tube overnight the wasps will
get up before you do and start building a nest in it. This in turn
makes for an unhappy pilot when some of his instruments don't work.
With that long tube, though, the tennis ball is probably as much about
not stabbing yourself in the face as it is about keeping bugs out.

When I saw the first picture in the "parade of planes" sequence, I
wondered if the pilots were just going to use the city street as a
runway. After a few photos, I figured out that they are probably just
taxiing to the airport, where they can fuel up and actually get ready to
go. One of the planes has a flag flying from its tail, which looks good
in a street parade but might be kind of interesting in the air, and the
Cessna has its tennis ball. I wonder if the tennis ball has an official
Cessna part number.

Matt Roberds

"...I wonder if the tennis ball has an official Cessna part number."

If it does, I'm sure it will cost well over $700 for the "certified" tennis
ball.



jf