Baby, it's cold out there!

Ron Wanttaja wrote:
Here's a shot of me, dressed to fly on a cold day about ten years ago:

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/stories/ice5.gif

It's the Blue Baron! Ice blue! Somebody call Allied command and tell them
Snoopy's other arch-enemy is back!

Here's the airplane. Notice the icicles hanging off the Agwagon in the
background....

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/stories/ice4.gif

"With ice on his wings Snoopy knew he was caught."

(When I went to verify the lyrics I found a copy under the U.S. government
website of the "National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences", of
all places:
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/snoopys.htm )

On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:10:53 -0800, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:50:26 -0500, Ron Rosenfeld
wrote:

On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:20:30 -0800, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

My flight-before-last, it was about 28 degrees F on the ground. Not as cold,
yes, but I fly an open-cockpit airplane. I think I notice it more. :-)

I've been up in a friend's Stearman, but never in weather that cold. I can
only imagine (and I don't want to).

I've flown in a Stearman a couple of times (front pit) and I find the cockpit
uncomfortable. There's a TON of draft that I don't get in my (single-seat)
airplane. Might be gaps in the panels up front, might be airflow from the top
wing. One flight was on a ~45 degree day, and I shot some photos of the pilot
back over my shoulder. He looks absolutely miserable....

One of our locals has a Baby Great Lakes. It won awards at Sun n' Fun
some years back. He used to fly it year around. Snowmobile suit,
fleece lined leather helmet, and a set of goggles peaking out. Of
course he also wore gloves.

Tougher than I've ever been.

Here's a shot of me, dressed to fly on a cold day about ten years ago:

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/stories/ice5.gif

Here's the airplane. Notice the icicles hanging off the Agwagon in the
background....

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/stories/ice4.gif

Ron Wanttaja
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

My Arrow is in annual inspection mode right now. The mechanic called
to tell me that the landing gear reinforcement part for SB1161 has
been back-back-ordered and won't be in until Feb. 13. With zero
forecast in Chicago over the weekend, they can keep the airplane until
further notice.

I've never regretted having January inspections, although sometimes
it's a challenge to get the plane to the shop.

Jay Honeck wrote:
Putting on the frozen-solid LightSpeeds was enough to wake me up!
They slowly thawed, up against my head, and softened to the point
where the ANR functioned again, as we taxied out to the active.

Baby, it's COLD out there!

Suggestion about cold headsets.

When I sit down in a cold aircraft, I buckle my seat
and shoulder belts and then put the headset around my
right leg. That warms the headset (or alien flesh)
just a little. :-)

Best regards,

Jer/ "Flight instruction and mountain flying are my vocations!"
--
Jer/ (Slash) Eberhard, Mountain Flying Aviation, LTD, Ft Collins, CO
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