Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Weekend

Regarding this last weekend.

It is a good thing that life continues when the WIFI goes down.  It went down at my place on Friday at 8pm.
Just got it back up and running late this Monday morning.

Any way,  I spent most of the weekend at my hanger at the airport doing a final cam timing and button-up of my Verner engine, including setting the prop pitch, balancing the carbs, etc.

Between the rain squalls, there were lots of hanggliders being towed aloft by our local Moyes tug pilot.  Locally known as the Wanatabe Ranch.

As I sit here typing this missive, the rain is coming down in buckets and the wind is whipping by, shaking my RV. 
(My brother and I had just washed our vehicles, so we knew it would rain.)

Tomorrow, we are driving to NorthWing to pickup my (repaired) Mustang II trike wing.

I know your going to ask, so to keep a long story short...

At the end of last month, I was outside, with the trike tied down, engine idling, checking for oil leaks. (we were putting in new gaskets to eliminate existing oil leaks).

The wind was blowing around 5mph.
Suddenly the wind jumped to around 20 gusting 30.
The back of the wing was to the wind (oops).
The wing tossed around until the trailing edge and the prop shook hands in a most friendly fashion.
Just to make matters more interesting, as we prepared the wing for its' trip to NorthWing, we managed to break a sprog :-(
As a side note, the wing is ~5 years old.  So it was time to be replacing the lower cables.

All the above is now fixed, including a scallop in each trailing edge so there will be no more friendly meetings between the prop and the wing.

R. Williams

 



---------- Original Message -----------
From: Helen Woods <Helen_Woods@verizon.net>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:25:11 -0400
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Weekend

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> Only for ducks here in Maryland.
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> Helen
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> On 4/25/2010 6:29 PM, Gary Orpe wrote:
> > Boy. Has this been a great weekend or what?
> >
> > Gary O.
> > "Mitfield"

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