PRB C2C Southbound

I remember reading an account of that someplace. Wasn't Tillman's book, which I think I have but haven't read. Amazing how little we knew of the places we had to fight over in 1942! I hope to finish off this HooHaa this weekend. BBQ will probably be all gone by the time I arrive. Beer too...
 
This was a fun flight. Right up until the wheels touched down on the grass runway out there at Mbeya, but I'll get to that in a minute. Once again there were large terrain features to navigate by, giant lakes and huge volcanoes. This plane seems to track right of selected course for some reason. Not sure what that's about. Probably my mediocre navigation gonculation skills have more to do with this phenomenon than a bent rudder or some such. The ADF station at HTMB must be a very long range one because I picked it out 20-30 minutes out. However, the grass runway was difficult to pick out and I flew right over it without seeing it. Only knew I was “there” when the ADF needle spun around suddenly. I banked the Lockheed into a steep left turn, opened the window, saw the runway down there, chopped power, slowed to gear and flap speed, hung the junk out, dived and turned for a down wind leg and left hand pattern. I was still high when I came over the fence, and I was probably getting a bit cocky after all these successful legs with no crashes. One thing about the Lockheed 12, she will treat you right if you respect her. If not, well, she'll try to kill you. I hit hard, bouncing back high into the air. Goosed the power in an attempt to “soften” the inevitable second blow, and it worked, sort of. Enough to avoid a serious mishap anyway. We made it.

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Thanks Willy. I think I got blowed off course a bit. Was watching the Indy-500 and came back to a 24 knot cross wind. Oops. At least this leg is to the coast, so I should be able to figure where I'm at. Still got my National Geographic map with me...
 
Thanks all! It was a fun event. Now to get caught up with the spreadsheet... :)
 
Excellent Paul. Great to have another Lockheed register a success.

Austin's buying an extra round for every Lockheed that makes the trip...
 
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