I look like Sammy Davis Jr. when I fly , (cock eyed) , because one eye is always staring at that little wire coming out of that header tank. --- On Thu, 7/30/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Re: HEADER TANK FUEL GAUGE To: "Nick King" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 10:44 AM > Bama ? Isn't that a jelly ? LOL . I like that........When the > indicator starts down , you'd better also ! > Well, Nick, it's kinda like this. At the 2000 Ercoupe Owners Club meeting at College Park, I heard that the next meeting would be in Terrell, Texas. I started plotting. I had been in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1993-1994 and bought my Ercoupe there. A prince of a fellow, Mr. Opal Walker, had turned me on to the Used Ercoupe Lot in Tucumcari, and after crawling in and out of eight or ten of `em my wife and I decided to make 2129H ours. So I figured I owed him and proposed we fly there. I had since migrated to Portland, Oregon, to regain our floating home on the Columbia River, but the wife worked for Horizon Airlines so I took advantage of the flight bennies. It was commercial from PDX to ROW, then Ercoupe 99762 to Terrell. The flight was 3 legs; refuel at Snyder and Grandburn. After the second stop, I asked Opal "Does your header tank usually ride that low?" "Nope" came that classic reply. So there we were, two geezers navigating with one eye on the sinking gage and the other looking for Terrell! Made it in and found that the Grandbury fueler had not put the cap on right. Most embarrasing to me because it was on my side of the plane! By Gar, he did it again when we went back through Grandbury. Well, fool me once and all that. Opal had a remonstrance with the guy... :=) So "been there, wore out the T-shirt." Percy
