...getting this weekend's thread started. I'm down for annual - WX is beautiful.
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Cant believe your wheel pants are surviving, you are definitely a top notch pilot.Somewhere close to Parallel 39 on San Rafael Reef...
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...getting this weekend's thread started.
VAFDR
Glad to see that you made it back OK........About 2 minutes after the pic above was taken, something failed in my propeller and I had oil all over my windscreen. I broke from the formation and headed direct to our destination airport. I had limited forward visibility, so the Lead took me to a 1 mile right base. Years of flying my Midget Mustang made the zero forward vis landing a non-event.
My oil pressure went from my standard 70-ish psi to a low of 25 psi, but never zero. I was using 20” of manifold pressure and 2400 rpm when I first noticed oil on my windscreen. The prop rpm became erratic as the incident progressed. At one point when I reduced manifold pressure from 19” to 15”, the prop oversped up to 3050rpm. In the end, I estimate I lost about 4 quarts of oil in the incident that lasted about 10 minutes from when I first noticed it to when I was on the ground.
Lucky [or not, tbd] for me, I own 2 identical props. I robbed the prop off my Glasair 1RG and installed it on the RV to get it home. Also lucky for me, half my neighborhood flew to breakfast so I was able to bum a ride home to retrieve the Glasair prop, my pickup, and all the necessary tools. I had everything pretty well buttoned up from the prop swap last night, but it was dark and I didn’t want to do a solo test flight of an unflown prop without knowing *for sure* that the prop was the only problem. A neighbor gave me a ride to retrieve my plane this morning and it is now happily sitting in my hangar where it will likely drip oil for approximately the next decade.
Fun times.
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So.......kind of like landing a short J-3 from the back seat...... Good to have a wingman!About 2 minutes after the pic above was taken, something failed in my propeller and I had oil all over my windscreen. I broke from the formation and headed direct to our destination airport. I had limited forward visibility, so the Lead took me to a 1 mile right base. Years of flying my Midget Mustang made the zero forward vis landing a non-event.
Nice job Rod! All kinds of other things could have happened!My oil pressure went from my standard 70-ish psi to a low of 25 psi, but never zero. I was using 20” of manifold pressure and 2400 rpm when I first noticed oil on my windscreen. The prop rpm became erratic as the incident progressed. At one point when I reduced manifold pressure from 19” to 15”, the prop oversped up to 3050rpm. In the end, I estimate I lost about 4 quarts of oil in the incident that lasted about 10 minutes from when I first noticed it to when I was on the ground. A neighbor gave me a ride to retrieve my plane this morning and it is now happily sitting in my hangar where it will likely drip oil for approximately the next decade.
Fun times.
So.......kind of like landing a short J-3 from the back seat...... Good to have a wingman!
Nice job Rod! All kinds of other things could have happened!
OK: but you can't leave us hanging! Once you figure out what happened, please let us know what the verdict was! Sounds like it was the prop. Curious minds want to know.....
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After weeks and weeks of rain, a few dry days allowed the runway to become usable. 50 minutes of blissful aerial therapy ensued ….
Edited to add: Thanks for the kind words, Fred, and nice to hear from you! I remember when we flew to Leadville in a 3-ship with you and your wife in your plane, me with Dr. Dean Hall in his RV-4, and Jon Johansson along in his RV-4. I need to dig up those pictures sometime. Probably in the 1996-1998 timeframe.