Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #30152
From: John Downing <downing.j@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Miid-winter Rotary Fest
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:45:40 -0500
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
These little runway abnormities give the laundress some thing to do.   Sure
wish I lived closer so I could join in with the forums and the eye ball
scrutiny.  JohnD       Sanding on mold for fiberglass
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Staten" <Dastaten@earthlink.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 2:06 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Miid-winter Rotary Fest


Tracy Crook wrote:

>   All normal until tailwheel lifts off and plane wind-vanes violently
> into gust.  Force tail wheel back down to regain control and a second
> later the plane lifts off and does a pretty good imitation of a
> butterfly caught in the draft of a semi.  Soon in control again but
> combination of low airspeed, P factor and cross wind has plane
> pointed 45 degrees away from course down runway.     And of course,
>  all in front of an audience of die-hard rotor-heads who were still at
> Bill's place.  Sigh....
>
> Tracy (adding glasses to preflight checklist)
>


Tracy,,

     This sounds almost like my ARRIVAL in the Cardinal, minus the
audience (and the tailwheel).. It was an attentiongetter..

Dave

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