Oshkosh Camping Suggestions

("Kyle Boatright" wrote)
Ditch your sleeping bag. Instead, use a combination of sheets and fleece
blankets. Much more comfortable at little or no weight penalty.

Sew an old sheet into a sleeve to cover your camping pad. If you just
throw a sheet over a camping pad, it'll creep overnight and you'll end up
sleeping on the pad itself.


Is the weight penalty worth the comfort of an air mattress for a week?

I bought an Eddie Bauer (self-inflating) queen size air mattress on the way
to OSH last year ....in the minivan. Pump uses 4 D-cell batteries. Smaller
Single/Twin size mattress was also available.

I'm not the smallest guy around, yet the thing kept me up off the ground all
night - unless I rolled to the side too quickly, then I would sometimes
bottom out.

On our last night, I wasn't even aware we had a flooded tent until I rolled
off the air mattress the next morning - only to discover an inch of water in
the bottom of said tent. I have not ruled out foul play!! :-)

I packed 1 old crummy comforter and 1 normal "top" sheet. If it's hot -
sheet on top, cold - comforter on top.

Air mattress ($45) has been used many, many times by us since last year. No
leaks, same batteries.


Montblack

For your airplane:

three pieces of 1" thick plywood (one for each wheel)

12" or 18" square

Shut down your engine a foot or two short of the line, place the squares
ahead of the wheels and pull the airplane up onto the squares.

These will keep your wheels from sinking into the soil while you are
there, making your departure much easier, rolling off the plywood
instead of pulling your airplane out of the holes.

1" ply? Jeez, are you flying a DC-3 in?

Jim



"john smith" wrote in message
.. .
For your airplane:

three pieces of 1" thick plywood (one for each wheel)

Okay, I admit I don't know how much weight a one-square-foot piece of
3/8, 1/2, or 3/4 inch plywood will bear before breaking. I err on the
conservative side. :-))
What would be the appropriate size for 210 or Cherokee Six six aircraft?

RST Engineering wrote:
1" ply? Jeez, are you flying a DC-3 in?
Jim

"john smith" wrote in message
For your airplane:
three pieces of 1" thick plywood (one for each wheel)

I'm going to make some offhand assumptions:

1. This is Wisconsin dirt covered with either green or brown grass quite
evenly.

2. The plywood will be 90% in contact with a supporting surface of
grass/ground

3. The airplane will weigh something on the order of 3000 pounds spread
evenly over all three wheels.

If this is true, then the plywood will have a supporting role 10% of 1000
pounds, or 100 pounds over a square foot, or a little less than 1 psi. My
best guess is that 3/8 would do, but beltandsuspenders would be half-inch.
That's what I'm bringing along.

Jim



"john smith" wrote in message
...
Okay, I admit I don't know how much weight a one-square-foot piece of 3/8,
1/2, or 3/4 inch plywood will bear before breaking. I err on the
conservative side. :-))
What would be the appropriate size for 210 or Cherokee Six six aircraft?

RST Engineering wrote:
1" ply? Jeez, are you flying a DC-3 in?
Jim

"john smith" wrote in message
For your airplane:
three pieces of 1" thick plywood (one for each wheel)

RST Engineering wrote:
I'm going to make some offhand assumptions:

1. This is Wisconsin dirt covered with either green or brown grass quite
evenly.

2. The plywood will be 90% in contact with a supporting surface of
grass/ground

3. The airplane will weigh something on the order of 3000 pounds spread
evenly over all three wheels.

If this is true, then the plywood will have a supporting role 10% of 1000
pounds, or 100 pounds over a square foot, or a little less than 1 psi. My
best guess is that 3/8 would do, but beltandsuspenders would be half-inch.
That's what I'm bringing along.

Is that based on lessons learned in the North Fond du Lac mud two year's
ago? :-))

Yup. And again seven years ago, and thirteen years ago, and ...

Jim


Is that based on lessons learned in the North Fond du Lac mud two year's
ago? :-))

RST Engineering wrote:

snipped beltandsuspenders Engineering analysis

Dang Jim, another thing to add to the "bring to OSH" list. Seeing as
I'm flying something w/o wing struts now, push/pulling out of the N40
will certainly be easier if the Arrow has been sitting on 1/2 inch thick
pieces of plywood for the week.


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-IA Student
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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RST Engineering wrote:
snipped beltandsuspenders Engineering analysis

Jack Allison wrote:
Dang Jim, another thing to add to the "bring to OSH" list. Seeing as
I'm flying something w/o wing struts now, push/pulling out of the N40
will certainly be easier if the Arrow has been sitting on 1/2 inch thick
pieces of plywood for the week.

You will not regret bringing them, Jack. Especially if it rains as it
did two years ago.

Is the weight penalty worth the comfort of an air mattress for a week?

Montblack

Do the words HELL YES mean anything to you?

Dave