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

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

From: Dave Hyde
Date: 12/9/2003 6:47 PM Central Standard Time
Message-id:

"[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


Well, look at the bright side: you have established a baseline for determining
take off speed, you know it will fly straight and level in ground effect and
that the gear will not collapse in a gentle landing.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

On 10 Dec 2003 04:30:33 GMT, (B2431) wrote:

From: Dave Hyde
Date: 12/9/2003 6:47 PM Central Standard Time
Message-id:

"[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


Well, look at the bright side: you have established a baseline for determining
take off speed, you know it will fly straight and level in ground effect and
that the gear will not collapse in a gentle landing.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

and you did it in the hundredth anniversary of the first flight with
the good sense not to upstage the distance :-)

good one nauga!

Stealth Pilot
oz.

hucks], 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


Congratulations on your project. Great feeling isn't it.

Dave "been there, done that" Tate

"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.

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.-