Your longest Taylorcraft flight

[wlas]

Re: Your longest Taylorcraft flight

Wow, 10 hours thats a long flight, the longest I've flown non-stop is a little over 5 hours. I use to put a six gal. marine gas tank in my baggage and transfer fuel with the rubber hand pump in the fuel line, it took about 20 min of squeezing to get six gals that was plumbed into the wing tank fuel line. It worked real good, I didn't have anything else to do. I sure like watching that wire in the fuel gage going back up.

[Ed O'Brien]

Re: Your longest Taylorcraft flight

I've found in my L2-with an 85HP engine- and 14 gallons of gas... THAT, I'm about 90 minutes to 1 hour and 45 minutes maximum between gas stops. I'm averaging 100 to 105 MPH. However, with the frequent stops... I'm flying about as fast as driving (at 70-75mph). Meaning a trip from Denver to Wichita (gas stops in Akron, CO/ Hayes,KS/Pratt, KS) AND a trip from Denver to ABQ, NM. (with gas tops in Pueblo,CO, Trinidad, CO. AND Las Vegas, NM) took almost exactly the same time as driving it by car. Additionally, the price of gas being about $4.20 per gallon (for av-gas) made the total price of the trip (gas and oil) the same as driving ($3.10-$3.25 per gallon for mid-grade unleaded). Any other L2 drivers see it the same way?
With regards; ED OBRIEN

[Forrest Barber]

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Yes but would you have as much fun....
I remember the fellow whose name I have to look up sometime , Rosenberg maybe, who flew his Model D ( a L-2? version) from California to Israel across the N. Atlantic. He had it painted military colors with a 60 gal ferry tank along with the normal 14 gal, yes yes I know that is about 450 lbs of fuel . He stayed in ground effect all across Kansas. He did have some hairy stories to tell when flight was over, he shipped her back to the coast. He brought her to the Taylorcraft Fly-In ( on the way to Israel) here in Alliance a long time ago. 85 hp & a Honda wind driven alternator.

[Ed O'Brien]

Re: Your longest Taylorcraft flight

FOrrest;
No doubt about it... I'd prefer to fly, always. I just found it funny that flying and driving come out to be the same price and time. My next question would be... "How do it know?"
Regards;
ED OBRIEN

[lfries]

Re: Your longest Taylorcraft flight

He came to the Columbia Fly in one year and shared the trip with
us. I believe the plane came home on the same 747 that he came home on.

[Winston L.]

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I flew the BC-65 from Yakima WA. to Navasota TX about a month and a half ago. I went through the four corners area and then south to El paso.

[mikerice]

Return to Texas?

Hi Winston,
I heard you were back in Texas, are you based in Navasota now?

[VictorBravo]

Re: Your longest Taylorcraft flight

I flew an 85HP BC-12D N96121 from a grass strip at Allegan (near Kalamazoo) Michigan down to El Paso and then over to Los Angeles in 1998. I figure it was 1500-1800 miles as a guess. The written story of that flight was posted here some years ago, and may be in the archives somewhere.

[okmike]

Re: Your longest Taylorcraft flight

My dad in his 46 BC-12D 65 Horsepower with nothing but a map and a compass from Alice Tx. to Pomfret Ct. back in the 60's or 70'sI believe. I have no idea how long it took him but Im sure it was a while!!

[barnstmr]

Re: Your longest Taylorcraft flight

Hey Winston,
Good to see you are still around! Have you settled in TX? Give me an email or a call to update. We should catch up.

[Winston L.]

Re: Return to Texas?

Hi Winston,
I heard you were back in Texas, are you based in Navasota now?

Yes, my airplane is in Navasota and I am living in Anderson.