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Old 09-21-2011, 04:03 AM
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Default Yes, I do know where it is

Unfortunately you did not have time to tour the once top secret "nuclear bunker" for the US government under Greenbrier resort (center right along I64).

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Old 09-21-2011, 05:44 AM
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Vlad, in one of your pictures, you show a clock/stopwatch with Russian markings. A buddy of mine has a clock like this in his YAK-52, and has no idea how how it works or what it is telling him.

From your photo, the (red) push button on the left causes the clock flag to change between red, white, and 1/2red---1/2white.

The POH is no help and does not describe its operation. Can you tell us how it operates??
Thanks.
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Old 09-21-2011, 05:48 AM
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Default Interesting clock

As above, I'd enjoy hearing more about it and because of the novelty, would love to obtain one if they can be found.

Looking forward to the boats. I share your interest in the classic mahogany runabouts.
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Old 09-21-2011, 07:00 AM
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Great report......so far. Where are the wooden boat pictures?
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Old 09-21-2011, 07:52 AM
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Hey Vlad - yes, you were probably out too early for me!! In addition to the boats, I'd like to hear about what kind of performance numbers you achieved . . . better be careful, at this rate you may reach your Lycoming overhaul hours by sometime next year - that means more $$$

See you on the Oct 1.
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Old 09-21-2011, 10:03 AM
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Vlad, Nice pictures of your trip!
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Old 09-21-2011, 10:26 AM
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is that radioactive? looks cool though
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Old 09-21-2011, 10:52 AM
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is that radioactive? looks cool though
A lot of older instruments are marked with radium/paint mixture - see note below.
Doesn't stop me for liking relic instruments, but just a word to the wise.

Quote from Health Physics Society;
"For many years radium was used to make luminescent dials for various purposes. The radium was mixed into a paint with a phosphorescent agent that emitted light after absorbing the radiation from radium's decay process. Radium and its progeny are a part of the natural uranium decay chain but have been concentrated from its natural state for this use. Radium (and its progeny) emit alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. All of the alpha radiation and most of the beta radiation is stopped by the glass cover of the instrument. The gamma radiation passes through the glass and is easily detected by most radiation meters. At 1 foot from the instrument, the radiation is usually 30 times less than at the instrument's surface. "
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Old 09-21-2011, 11:55 AM
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wasn't kidding. i leave near Radium, no kidding!
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Old 09-21-2011, 04:46 PM
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That's my home base in the lower right....

Brantel, I scanned RV White Pages during the planning phase and I had your location handy just in case.

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Small world ain't it?
Small world indeed Greg. I am glad somebody other then ATC was watching.


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Greg,
What you saw was not Vlad. Vlad's icon is a nice yellow HOUSE, not an airplane!

Vlad,
Bear clock must have rusty "jim balls". According to aprs, you flew way over 5 hours. I wonder which one is wrong
Cousin I reprogrammed the thingy already. The tracker doesn't know that there is Central Time.

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Vlad, in one of your pictures, you show a clock/stopwatch with Russian markings. A buddy of mine has a clock like this in his YAK-52, and has no idea how how it works or what it is telling him.

From your photo, the (red) push button on the left causes the clock flag to change between red, white, and 1/2red---1/2white.

The POH is no help and does not describe its operation. Can you tell us how it operates??
Thanks.
I got .pdf manual for this clock if you need it. Red push button activates flight time. If you stop it it's half red, reset - white. If you don't stop it turns half red after one day (24 hours flight time) it can count 48 hobbs hours. There are some newer modifications I am not aware of.



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As above, I'd enjoy hearing more about it and because of the novelty, would love to obtain one if they can be found.


Bunch of them on the market. They are called AChS-1 ( АЧС-1) used are traded below hundred bucks.

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is that radioactive? looks cool though

There was some radioactive material in them indeed but in the 80ies a mandatory directive was issued and instrumentation was disposed and recycled. That what I was told by an AF faculty professor back in USSR.
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