Things you don't want to hear on a taxi test.

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 07:32:19 GMT, Roger Halstead
wrote:

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:27:29 GMT, Dave Hyde wrote:



snip
You have considerably more experience than I:-)) I have flown one
twice, but it was a nose dragger (6A) and never solo. It was a nice
flying plane. Light on the controls, but overly so and good harmony.
*Nothing* like the GP4 I flew.

That should have been "Not overly so". That's what comes out of typing
in the middle of the night...


BTW, I'm jealous! :-))

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair?)
www.rogerhalstead.com
Return address modified due to dumb virus checkers

"Dave Hyde" wrote in message
...
"[Shucks], I'm airborne."

But 6 inches for 100 feet doesn't count as a
first flight :-) Interesting cockpit
video g.
You might have said:

"Success four flights thursday morning # all against twenty one mile wind
started from Level with engine power alone # average speed through air
thirty one miles longest 57 [sic] seconds inform Press home ####Christmas."

Congratulations, Dave. Log it!

Rich S.

snip
You have considerably more experience than I:-)) I have flown one
twice, but it was a nose dragger (6A) and never solo. It was a nice
flying plane. Light on the controls, but overly so and good harmony.
*Nothing* like the GP4 I flew.

That should have been "Not overly so". That's what comes out of typing
in the middle of the night...

I figured you meant exactly that anyway, Roger.
No harm done on this end. g

BTW, I'm jealous! :-))

Roger Halstead

Jealous of what exactly?

What you are building is in a class
and mission vastly different than an RV-4.

I'd be jealous of you, if my mission was not
to fly in and out of short unimproved strips
and still go reasonable fast on the cheap.


Barnyard BOb -- over 550 RV-3 hours

Roger Halstead wrote in message . ..
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:47:38 GMT, Dave Hyde wrote:

"[Shucks], I'm airborne."

But 6 inches for 100 feet doesn't count as a
first flight :-) Interesting cockpit
video g.

Dave 'I swore I'd never crow-hop' Hyde


Just don't try to imitate the Emmeraud here at 3BS. it had a 125 HP
engine and was designed for about 65 or so. The pilot only had a few
hours of tail dragger time...wayyyy back when he'd been checked out.

125 hp in an Emeraude is just about right. 65 would make it a
feeble airplane. One book I have here says it has flown with
everything from 85 to 150 hp.
The pilot just didn't know what he was doing.

Dan

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:47:38 GMT, Dave Hyde wrote:

"[Shucks], I'm airborne."

But 6 inches for 100 feet doesn't count as a
first flight :-) Interesting cockpit video g.

Is a first flight possible on the Hundredth anniversary of THE FIRST
FLIGHT?

Congratulations on your achievement.

- J.O.-

Ballistic in an Emmeraud on 125hp? LOL

Jerry

Roger Halstead wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:47:38 GMT, Dave Hyde wrote:


"[Shucks], I'm airborne."

But 6 inches for 100 feet doesn't count as a
first flight :-) Interesting cockpit
video g.

Dave 'I swore I'd never crow-hop' Hyde



Just don't try to imitate the Emmeraud here at 3BS. it had a 125 HP
engine and was designed for about 65 or so. The pilot only had a few
hours of tail dragger time...wayyyy back when he'd been checked out.

For some strange reason he fire walled it and it went ballistic
instead of accelerating down the runway. What goes straight up
usually comes straight down. The lift from the wing brought the nose
back up and it hit just the south of the runway. The only damage to
the plane was it broke both main gear off the spar and put a crack in
the right side cowl...and the two sets of teeth marks in the glare
shield.

It's been rebuilt and is now regularly flying.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair?)
www.rogerhalstead.com
Return address modified due to dumb virus checkers

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:32:02 -0600, RR Urban wrote:


snip
You have considerably more experience than I:-)) I have flown one
twice, but it was a nose dragger (6A) and never solo. It was a nice
flying plane. Light on the controls, but overly so and good harmony.
*Nothing* like the GP4 I flew.

That should have been "Not overly so". That's what comes out of typing
in the middle of the night...

I figured you meant exactly that anyway, Roger.
No harm done on this end. g

BTW, I'm jealous! :-))

Roger Halstead

Jealous of what exactly?

Of you being almost ready to take your RV flying. They are great ships
and I enjoyed flying one even though it was only a couple of hops for
a total of 2 hours.


What you are building is in a class
and mission vastly different than an RV-4.

and a long ways to go before it gets in the air.
I like airplanes, although I do happen to be a bit fussy about which
ones. :-))

I'd be jealous of you, if my mission was not
to fly in and out of short unimproved strips
and still go reasonable fast on the cheap.

If I were about 40 years younger there are about 4 ships, maybe I
should say "at least" 4 ships, I'd be building...covering the
gauntlet from a STOL heavy hauler, to a G-III and beyond. Course, if
I were 40 years younger, and know what I know now I'd borrow the money
and buy those 4 or 5 P 51s out of Texas at $7500 each (with gas).
:-)) when I had the chance.

For most of us with a bit of imagination, which leaves out most of the
population, but includes most who are willing to build an airplane,
there are always more things to do, or that we'd like to do. I figure
it'd take me at least five lifetimes just to get done what I'd like to
do in this one. :-))

BTW, a bit off topic, but I took the Deb over to MBS Monday to get the
pitot static system, altimeter, and transponder checks done. A friend
gave me a ride back in his Cherokee 180. Just after Clearance
delivery gave us our clearance we heard them clear someone to land, #2
behind... something. We looked at each other and in unison said, "Did
he say F-16?".

There was an F-16 flying the ILS. I have to admit his missed is a bit
more lively than mine in the Deb. Man, but that was impressive.


Barnyard BOb -- over 550 RV-3 hours

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) 2 hours in an RV6A and almost
a full hour in a G-III although I do have over a 1000 in the Deb.
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair?)
www.rogerhalstead.com
Return address modified due to dumb virus checkers

Roger Halstead wrote:

BTW, I'm jealous! :-))

Roger Halstead

Jealous of what exactly?

Of you being almost ready to take your RV flying. They are great ships
and I enjoyed flying one even though it was only a couple of hops for
a total of 2 hours.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hey !
Nobody is jealous of me.

I've got one foot in the grave
and the other on a banana peel....
amongst several other fatal flaws that
need not be addressed at this time. g

HINT:
Does the name 'Dave Hyde' ring a bell?


RV-3 BOb - more mis-speak on tap?

From: RR Urban

Hey !
Nobody is jealous of me.

I've got one foot in the grave
and the other on a banana peel....
amongst several other fatal flaws that
need not be addressed at this time. g


I see an oppornunity to make money here. Mind if we all take out insurance
policies on you?

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired