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> There are a few hundred of us out
here. Who are you?
> Where are you? Which model do you
have, if you have
> one? Had any special, fun
flights lately? Any scary events?
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> Sent: Saturday, October 08,
2005 7:25 PM
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>
> ED.
> I have a 415C.
She lives in Bangor Maine All flights
> are fun. Flying
is the only time I don't hurt. I
> neglected to duck
while visiting beautiful South
>
> Scary? Well how
bought my second flight
> after 3,8 hours
noticing the wire on the fuel gage
> had disappeared.
I looked for a field very quickly!!
> Ain't GPS's
great. Oh on my third flight the new
> generator failed.
No actually it failed on my second
> flight, but the
battery didn't go down until I had
> passes
> BOB
Bob,
I’m not trying
to top you. But I can relate to what you write. Here’s the
story of my second Coupe flight:
http://edburkhead.com/Ercoupe/Coupe_glider_club.htm
I also had a generator
or regulator fail on (or before) my first long cross country trip in my Coupe. I
didn’t notice till time to start the engine for the return trip. The
FBO hand-propped me and I appreciated old-technology magnetos when they kept
working.
Sometime in that first
year, my nose wire gauge was down to the cap when I noticed the problem. I
was half-way between two county-seat airports – about 20 miles to each. I
quickly dropped power to best range speed and was amazed to see the wire
vibrate back up to normal. Apparently the resonance of the engine had
been enough to push down the cork/wire since the cork was soggy and about ready
to sink (that was the next year in the middle of a cross country).
Sorry you got hurt
during your all-expense-paid-tour. Thanks for going, though. Even
in retrospect, I think that what we were trying to do was a good thing. My
high school government/history teacher told us the justifications and told us
the bad things that were expected to happen if we lost the war. Most of
those bad things did happen. <sigh>
I was just young
enough that my college deferment got me through, past the pullout, so I was a
legal draft dodger. Then I enlisted when I left college for three years
active duty in
If you don’t
hurt while flying, I sure hope you get to fly a lot.
Ed
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