Video... pretty decent soft field technique.

That dust is nasty. I wonder if a soup of it is corrosive?

StillLearning wrote:That dust is nasty. I wonder if a soup of it is corrosive?

My thought as well. Every time I've been to the playa I clean the airplane pretty carefully. The dust is bad enough, but getting alkali mud jammed in every crevice - yikes. Had I planned on going this year(didn't for a number of reasons) I'd have called an audible and turned left at the Frank Church.

Well done. Just keep going and head home.

Or

Come to our work party at Landmark Sunday…

Wow. That's brutal. Some real knowledgeable folks there as well. Struck out on every guess as to what kind of plane it was...

When you fly a “Cub”, don’t all Cessnas look alike?

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Brutally ugly conditions. I'm glad I didn't have big hopes or plans to attend this year. Did the rains come after folks were on the ground, or did some planes land in the wet conditions? I can't imagine touching down there when the playa was wet. Just walking on a wet playa, I've grown 2" with each step as playa mud stuck to the bottom of my shoes. That stuff is nasty at its best. It's demonically bad at its worst! Home never looked so good!

A1Skinner wrote:Wow. That's brutal. Some real knowledgeable folks there as well. Struck out on every guess as to what kind of plane it was...

The woman guessed it right....206.

That airplane needs to be STEAM cleaned now.....talk about an invitation to corrosion.....

mtv wrote:

A1Skinner wrote:Wow. That's brutal. Some real knowledgeable folks there as well. Struck out on every guess as to what kind of plane it was...

The woman guessed it right....206.

That airplane needs to be STEAM cleaned now.....talk about an invitation to corrosion.....

Pretty short flaps for a 206. I'm sure that was a 205, but I've been wrong before.

Tail number looked like either N4500H or N450DH...

FAA says 4500H is deregistered, 450DH is a Cessna 210B so apparently a 210....

That would be even more ugly to try to get that crap out of all the retract linkages and switches

One of these years may drive there (in a rental car). But take the plane in? No. Watched several people spend days trying to get the dust out of ever nook and cranny of their planes (unsuccessfully).

Live2aviate wrote:Tail number looked like either N4500H or N450DH...

FAA says 4500H is deregistered, 450DH is a Cessna 210B so apparently a 210....

That would be even more ugly to try to get that crap out of all the retract linkages and switches

It looks like it either came with fixed gear or has had a conversion done. Its essentially a 205 now with a lower gross.

Early 210's had gear doors that covered up all the wheelwells. The video ended fairly quickly after the plane got airborne, pilot may well have decided to leave gear down for a little while to blow some of that mud off....

Screenshot from the most recent Steve Henry video, looks like an old 210 alright.

210 went to full cantilever wing in 1967 with the G model. It was bothering me so I had to look it up. I don't work on them so not to familiar with other design changes but did know that the early ones were strutted wings.

--Brian