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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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