columbia Fly-in a Success!

[DanBrown]

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Jim and Bill,

Wonderful photos!! The last time I flew in S. Calif., there was a fine grass strip at Palm Desert, Simi Valley and Yucca Valley had fun dirt strips. That must date me -- are they still there??

[Pearson]

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I took too many photos to post here. If you follow this link it will take you to an album with my photos. Click on the album and there are several pics of the planes at the fly-in and of my trip home.

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/neat1s/album

While Jim Meeker was zipping along at 115 kts, I was creeping along at around 60 kts. The bad thing was that I had headwinds both ways. I also had the longest distance to travel, 503 nautical. My actual flight times were; 7:40 from W56 north of Portland, and 7:56 on the way back. In order to beat the sunset, I had to run the little A-65 up to 2150 which is 150 higher than what I usually use. I haven't tallied up the fuel bill, but it was pretty high. At one place they got me for $4.84 a gallon. Most places were just a little over $4.00 a gallon.

For the second time since I have been going to Columbia, I got burned from buying AA batteries at convenience stores. Both times my GPS quit after about an hour. This year I had the added annoyance of the GPS telling me it was going to switch off if I didn't hit a key. After I replaced these batteries the GPS worked fine the rest of the way home.

[DanBrown]

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Is a yellow stripe enough, or does the whole need to be yellow to be so afraid of the ground?

[high time cub]

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Good one, Dan!

[Jim Meeker]

Re: columbia Fly-in a Success!

While Jim Meeker was zipping along at 115 kts, I was creeping along at around 60 kts. The bad thing was that I had headwinds both ways. I also had the longest distance to travel, 503 nautical. My actual flight times were; 7:40 from W56 north of Portland, and 7:56 on the way back. In order to beat the sunset, I had to run the little A-65 up to 2150 which is 150 higher than what I usually use.

Mark
I was going 115 mph which is only 99.8 kts but still over 50% faster. First time I have had tail winds coming and going, just sorry you had to pay for it. I was flying at 9K full throttle which only gives me around 2150-2200. Nice pictures.
Cheers
Jim

[Jim Meeker]

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Is a yellow stripe enough, or does the whole need to be yellow to be so afraid of the ground?

Dan
You got it all wrong, the yellow makes my plane mellow allowing it to slip the surly bonds of earth much easier. Why you can almost hear the plane purr when I wipe the bugs off the leading edge with Lemon Pledge after a flight.
Cheers
Jim

[tawadc95]

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Richard,
Inspiring pics! Makes me wish I was there and will have to bring the L2 for next year!
Thanks for taking the time to put them on for us.
Chris

[DanBrown]

Re: columbia Fly-in a Success!

Dan
You got it all wrong, the yellow makes my plane mellow allowing it to slip the surly bonds of earth much easier. Why you can almost hear the plane purr when I wipe the bugs off the leading edge with Lemon Pledge after a flight.
Cheers
Jim

Jim,
You're right. Your thumbnail picture shows how beartifully yellow fits betseen blue sky and green grass..

[high time cub]

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OK, here is the real secret to flight, that I shared with my kids when they were young. It's been on "High Time's" panel for 20 years!

"The Magic Feather" - yellow of course....

More Dumbo...

http://www.allposters.com/-sp/-Posters_i307715_.htm

http://www.animationartwork.com/artwork/sku5465

[Pearson]

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TAWADC95,

Thanks! I posted the pictures of Mt Shasta and others to show Jim Meeker, and all the others that came up from Southern CA, the speed bumps that I had to overcome. In addition to the headwinds, those mountains caused some fairly strong turbulence that slowed me down even more.

[VictorBravo]

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"The Magic Feather" - yellow of course....

I beg to differ... the secret is Richard Bach's BLUE feather

One of my old sailplane racing friends that passed away was a fellow Bach fan. We held an informal sailplane contest, "The Blue Feather Fly-In" in his honor. Good Finish X8, RIP.