Dr. House meets Smokey The Bear

I have flown this race each leg a dozen times in almost as many aircraft. Most did not go past the the first 4 or 5 legs before they were ruled out.

The final dicision was to fly it in the Shockwave P-51H just because of speed. The hard part was getting it to slow down. I found out you do not pull the nose up strongly to lose airspeed it tends to fall out of the sky. I was only lucky to save the spin it went into.

Flight Times:

KMYL - 0U0 6:56
0U0 - ID86 5:57
ID86 - 02ID 5:31
02ID - 13ID 5:36
13ID - 0U1 4:20
0U1 - U72 7:10
U72 - ID67 3:54
ID67 - ID41 6:58
ID41 - 24K 5:35
24K – KMYL 5:21

Total: 0:57:18
 
Good run Dave. Ed, don't throw the geezer warbirds under the bus! The speeds there for several; slowing to land blows all the time. I have to throttle to idle 5 mi, from the rwy and S-turn violently to bleed off enough to not miss-approach. Does the speedbug have an airbrake/dive-brake?
 
The last leg I flew in the Geezer U-bird, I was a little irritated to find out the auto baton fetch hadn't. Arrrrrrrrrrr.

T.
 
jkcook28 said:
Good run Dave. Ed, don't throw the geezer warbirds under the bus! The speeds there for several; slowing to land blows all the time. I have to throttle to idle 5 mi, from the rwy and S-turn violently to bleed off enough to not miss-approach. Does the speedbug have an airbrake/dive-brake?
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Yep the Hornet has Dive Brakes
 
Well somebody had to hold up the Lockheed contingent. Started the route in the DeHavilland DHC-2 Beaver, but got bored, so I gave it a shot in the SU P-38J. No dive brakes, no WEP power. No scouting ahead (beyond ID86, in the Beaver). My goal was to not loose a leg due to a crash. I got busted on one leg due to altitude limit, which cost me ten minutes, but I didn’t crash, so there!

This was great fun, ridge running from airport to airport. The weather today was perfect too, so that helped a lot. Unlimited visibility across the entire course. Got lucky there!
 
Finished up the legs for a not so competitive 1:01:46

It wasn't more than halfwy through that I had been able to get the WEP to work, might have knocked off some time. Nevertheless screaming down some narrow canyons at 400 knots was a hoot!

Thanks Rob!
 
A fun exercise! As terrain routing is very important in this example. Being between trips, I didn't even have enough time to fly my real airplane! So almost all of these were run cold with no peek at the destination or the route inbetween except what I could see on the flight planner map or out the windscreen. I think we all learned a lot!

Cheers: T.
 
In the local "Bush" flying category, the Quest Kodiak. The actual aircraft is manufactured in Sand Point, Idaho. The FS model is by Bill Ortis (Lionheart). Probably not eligible for RTWR right now. (They started building for sale this January and are now delivering about 2 per month. However, August marked number 5 so they are probably not up to 10. And the aircraft is ineligible for RTWR until further notice.)

The total time is an ultra-non-competitive 1:24:34. (Duenna available on request.:redf:)

Do I get points for using only half the runways? :d
 
Sure Mike... since the airplane is not RTW "legal" yet we'll give you half-points..

So... for MM and the Kodiak.. points available.. zero (we had no bonuses either) unt zo.. 1/2 of nada = zip :applause:

But good to see the Kodiak tested and we'll be looking at it later.

Rob
 
I'm away til the end of the week.. currently lurking in the morning fog in the mountains - and relaxing!. So no flying or downloading til Friday.

There may be a few others wanting to try the exercise but for those who've done it an lived:
Has anyone thought of using the new PAD Barfalo...errr... Buffalo -- Extreme STOL!

Bored?? do the route in reverse!

Rob
 
Finally got my run in. Flew the Butcher Bird; ver. Dora. WEP on all legs (just enough, with a reset for each:isadizzy:) This plane bites you hard in this canyon/speed bleed off/radical maneuver/accelerated stall regime. VERY challenging and a sweet model and FDE. Not the fastest but happy with sub-one hour time with no speed brakes in a geezer warbird!

Cool event Rob!

KMYL-0U0 7:00
0U0-ID86 5:11
ID86-021D 5:26
021D-13ID 5:41
13ID-0U1 4:20
0U1-U72 7:33
U72-ID67 3:48
ID67-ID41 6:11
ID41-24K 5:17
24K-KMYL 4:50

total: 55:17

(duennas upon request so as not to bore you)
 
jkcook28 said:
...and there's Dave, who could have been flamed, in one of many practice runs we did! :costumes: :ernae:
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JOHN!!!!!!
you know Dave + mountains!! that close and the fireball or flying debris might have caught you :icon_lol:

(it'lll never end Dave.. never..):173go1:
 
jkcook28 said:
...and there's Dave, who could have been flamed, in one of many practice runs we did! :costumes: :ernae:
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Sufferin Succatash....

And here I thought you just wanted me to lead the way in.

:censored:ard and then you beat my time by 2 mins 1 second


srgalahad said:
(it'lll never end Dave.. never..)
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1.) I know

2.) I redeamed myself by reflying the leg after the RTWR under the same circumstances...

Only it was day by the time I got there...

Planned wrong on the time I left....

I did land on the runway I did not hit the mountain... Mostly because it was no longer the Blind Night.

The landing was successful with a Green Duenna....

But I collapased the landing gear on the runway in the P-38.

So you see I redeamed myself...

Almost :d
 
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