OregonMaule wrote:Sunday July 10, 2011 Flying M breakfast. Home and bale hay till 6:30, haul ass to the airport and head to dinner in Albany with the McMinnville gang. Had my boy and his friend along. They had never flown at night, they thought it was pretty cool.

Nice video Rob!

It's great to see all these new Drift cams being used.

Terry.... I don't want to hear your whining about the raffle.

Do you guys never call anymore because my plane is slow?

Wilcox sunrise.


Always looking for a good place to land and do some hiking, but the row of No Trespassing signs along this road in
New Mexico did not make me feel very welcome.

The video is great O. Maul.

akflyer2001 wrote:The video is great O. Maul.

Thanks ak. I am getting back into the video thing after 2 years. I have to refresh my memory. I found the audio menu to adjust the sound between the video and music added. Better ones to come I hope.

Cheers...Rob

Thanks Rob, I will keep a look out for the upcoming videos.
See you in a few weeks. Fly safe my friend..


Ken in Alaska

I was asked to bring my plane over to KSTP today for the 90th anniversary of the MN Air National Guard. They wanted to static display examples of aircraft they have had over the years. Fought WX a bit on the way over but once there it was a beautiful day. The little Cessna was hangin' out with the big iron, very prestigious company. CAF's 'Miss Mitchell' B-25 & 'Tuskegee Airmen', Datco's T-6 & Fagen's 'Sweet Revenge' P-51.




Got to talk with a couple CAF pilots i haven't seen in years & met 2 former astronauts Curt Brown (who's wife I've know for almost 20 years) & Pinky Nelson.

These aircraft will be at Flying Cloud airport AirExpo this weekend if any of you are in the Twin Cities area.

Flew into my private ranch strip early this morning to perform a little weed control prior to heading into work. It was a beautiful smooth morning. After years of flying into this stip, I can say that I don't think I will ever be completely comfortable landing there in the skywagon. At 7,500 feet elevation and 1200 feet in length touchdown speeds are FAST! I would love to see how a supercub would do getting and out of my strip. I'm thinking a 20MPH slower approach speed would make the strip less of a nail-biter for me. I have a stock wing on my plane. You guys with the sportsman kit, please chime in re: your experience with real world landing speeds at high density altitudes... is it worth it? I've been debating adding a sportsman kit for years.

L 19 , fantastic plane. One has to love the old Military planes. What part of Wisconsin are you in?
I grew up on Illinois and Wisconsin State line. Keep the old birds flying, and keep the shots comming.

Ken in Alaska

akflyer2001 wrote:L 19 , fantastic plane. One has to love the old Military planes. What part of Wisconsin are you in?
I grew up on Illinois and Wisconsin State line. Keep the old birds flying, and keep the shots comming.

Ken in Alaska

Thanks Ken!

North Western part. If your from Illinois you may be fermilular with Hayward? Seems like everyone else in IL is! Haha I'm about 20min from there or 1 hr south of Duluth mn.

I know of the area real well. Had some great times at the Dells.
I hope to make it to Oshkosh next year. I lived a bout 1 1/2 hours drive from there and only been there one time.
I have been here in Alaska for 39 years now.

Thanks for getting back to me L19
Ken in Alaska

180 driver, post that on SC.org and you most likely will see what a super cub does. You may end up with your own little fly-in??

180driver wrote:Flew into my private ranch strip early this morning to perform a little weed control prior to heading into work. It was a beautiful smooth morning. After years of flying into this stip, I can say that I don't think I will ever be completely comfortable landing there in the skywagon. At 7,500 feet elevation and 1200 feet in length touchdown speeds are FAST! I would love to see how a supercub would do getting and out of my strip. I'm thinking a 20MPH slower approach speed would make the strip less of a nail-biter for me. I have a stock wing on my plane. You guys with the sportsman kit, please chime in re: your experience with real world landing speeds at high density altitudes... is it worth it? I've been debating adding a sportsman kit for years.

Northern Utah? PM me if so and if you'd like to see how a Rans S-7S handles it, sounds interesting and I am always up for checking out a new place.

180driver wrote:Flew into my private ranch strip early this morning to perform a little weed control prior to heading into work. It was a beautiful smooth morning. After years of flying into this stip, I can say that I don't think I will ever be completely comfortable landing there in the skywagon. At 7,500 feet elevation and 1200 feet in length touchdown speeds are FAST! I would love to see how a supercub would do getting and out of my strip. I'm thinking a 20MPH slower approach speed would make the strip less of a nail-biter for me. I have a stock wing on my plane. You guys with the sportsman kit, please chime in re: your experience with real world landing speeds at high density altitudes... is it worth it? I've been debating adding a sportsman kit for years.

I don't have much experience with high DA.....so what ever this is worth?
I have the sportsman cuff. A friend went up with me a while back and helped me make a speed card. Around 100lbs under gross, and at 5000ft we found with 20,30 and 40 degrees flaps it would want to stall at 35 mph and that minimum controllable airspeed was 38 mph.
38x1.2 gives me an approach speed of 45mph, these numbers are statute mph.

It was time to make the trip to my vacation home east of the Cascades to mow the lawn. The moon last night was phenomenal. You could read a book at 3AM by the moon light.




Cheers...Rob

Rob, I can tell you're having a lot of fun making these vids. And we're having a lot of fun watching them, keep em coming!

OregonMaule wrote:It was time to make the trip to my vacation home east of the Cascades to mow the lawn. The moon last night was phenomenal. You could read a book at 3AM by the moon light.

Cheers...Rob

How long you over there for? I have a flight to do Monday and was thinking of going down to Madras for it and back.

I have one of those on the way too! I can't wait to get home and take lots of video's!

Great job Rob. I need to get a video camera

Ken

I flew out to Columbia yesterday with my wife and we camped for the night. It's a nice place to have just 40 minutes away.