Rednecks at play.

My wife is training for a marathon. she wanted to run somewhere different on saturday so we flew out to the Big Butte so she could run the road that goes around it.


After a couple hours I figured she was really tired and I was a little concerned she might be lost. I flew around till i found her, she looked tired so I landed to give her some water.

Great story whee....

Whee, I have visions of that old movie with Cary Grant and the Stearman crop duster.

Whee, I am thinking a five gallon water bladder in the cockpit and a 200 ft water hose, with a small chute for stability, coming out the door. Your wife can run at your stall speed, can't she?

Skystrider wrote:Whee, I am thinking a five gallon water bladder in the cockpit and a 200 ft water hose, with a small chute for stability, coming out the door. Your wife can run at your stall speed, can't she?

That's funny!

GroundLooper wrote:

And that's where baby airplanes come from!

Skystrider wrote:Whee, I am thinking a five gallon water bladder in the cockpit and a 200 ft water hose, with a small chute for stability, coming out the door. Your wife can run at your stall speed, can't she?

Maybe if I get into ground effect...

PG, I dont think I am old enough have seen that one. The only old flying flicksI have seen are Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines and The Great Waldo Pepper.

I was a pretty fun day other than the 15 minutes when I could find my wife, she had taken the wrong road.

my wife sharing her seat with Duke, she insisted he come.




the Big Southern Butte


May wife is down there somewhere.


My selected LZ for the water delivery.

It was a great old fashion kind of day. Just the local cub routes, but picked up another cub on the fly and did some formation.

Up to Chehalis (CLS) and back. Spent the day dodging clouds and showers. Weather didn't seem as good as predicted, even the AWOS's lied part of the time, lured me in then changed their story. Definitely got a little marginal a time or two with ceilings. Where it was good, it was nice flying.

New Mexico, just me and the elk, deer and a bear. Sometimes thats all the company I am looking for.
Dale

Dale:

Where is the strip? Pretty spot.

Regards, Larry

emflys wrote:Great story whee....

Yeah, and I didn't know a Luscombe had that much room in the front seat! From another Big Southern Butte fan....

88H wrote:Dale:

Where is the strip? Pretty spot.

Regards, Larry

Larry,
The strip is a Forrest service strip called Beaverhead. Not much nearby of interest to see or hike to that I know of. Just a
nice place for some peace and quiet.

Whee,

My wife has pretty much gotten to the point she will not go anywhere the dog can't go but not sure how long an 80 pound dog
on the lap would be fun for her in our C120.
She really enjoyed your pictures and story.
Thanks,
Dale

Lizard wrote: My wife has pretty much gotten to the point she will not go anywhere the dog can't go but not sure how long an 80 pound dog
on the lap would be fun for her in our C120. .....

Sounds like she needs to learn how to fly the airplane so that her & the dog can go places, while you stay home and do chores.....

hotrod150 wrote:

Lizard wrote: My wife has pretty much gotten to the point she will not go anywhere the dog can't go but not sure how long an 80 pound dog
on the lap would be fun for her in our C120. .....

Sounds like she needs to learn how to fly the airplane so that her & the dog can go places, while you stay home and do chores.....

Ha! .................Hey....... thats not funny

Breezy late day flying yesterday. Made my way up a strip/pasture that I've been trying to get into for a while. Ground speed going there was 156kts at 900agl.

Things are greening up.


Final


Parked


Nice little C150/150TD project that's taking a while.

That 150 will be a sweet little airplane when it's done. Those straight-tails look like baby 180's when they're on tailwheel gear. Tell the owner to keep it super light, cuz as far as I know none of the 150-horse STC's raise the gross weight of the early 1959-1963 150's-- it's stuck at 1500#. It's real easy to end up with a single-place airplane due to limited useful load. AD 86-15-07 addresses this: if the airplane's empty weight is over 1142#, it must be placarded for single-occupant use, and it must not exceed 1195#, period.
The 1964 and up 150's have a 1600# gross, and at least one of the 150-horse STC's (the one I have) bumps it up to 1760. Mine needed that bump, as it comes in at 1227# empty after some weight-loss work I did-- it weighed 1271 when I bought it.
IMHO it's best to leave the stock O-200 in the early 150's, with any performance increase coming from keeping them just as light as possible. Stock they came in around 1000#, so if you run a flat prop & get them down somewhere between 900 & 950 pounds they'll do pretty well.

We had a family Memorial Day cook out with a few friends added, who flew in.