Pearl Paint.....

petehowell · #1 01-25-2009, 03:44 PM

Yep - It was 0deg F in Minne, but clear, and gas is $2.50, so we figured we needed to fly a little. I took some A2A of Bernie Weiss' 7A with pearl paint. I still can't capture it it in the sun....... These shots were with the little Canon point and shoot, and if nothing else, they show Bernie's RV Grin!

TSwezey · #2 01-25-2009, 04:09 PM

I don't know how you guys go flying in that cold weather!

flion · #3 01-25-2009, 04:16 PM

The alternative would be not flying in that cold weather. Cold and miserable vs. cold and happy... right? That paint scheme goes well with that terrain and weather, don't you think? Beautiful.

MrNomad · #4 01-25-2009, 05:09 PM

ABSOLUTELY beautiful!

Barry

Ironflight · #5 01-25-2009, 05:48 PM

Nice shots Pete!

Looks guys are keeping the snow this year....and I, for one, am glad I don't have to pre-heat my engine oil on a stove before pouring it back in the engine to go flying (as we did when I was a kid) anymore!

Paul

N200PF · #6 01-25-2009, 06:00 PM

Bernie looks VERY happy! Nice shots Pete!!!

- Peter

AlexPeterson · #7 01-25-2009, 06:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TSwezey

I don't know how you guys go flying in that cold weather!

We don't either. I couldn't get the dang gas caps off yesterday when I got back. Taxied back the hangar cussing and trying to get feeling back in my hands. Put four 5 gallon cans in the van, drove back to self serve and put 4 gallons in each. By now my hands didn't hurt any more, since frostbite had set in. I went back to the warm hangar and put the juice in the tanks.

Kind of sorts out the wimps. Or smart people. Hey!, there are no bugs to clean off!

But, honking back on the stick and climbing continuously at 80 knots is spectacular. It is truly startling to level off (under the class B) and look back at the airport, which seems impossibly close still. I get 2600 agl in under a minute, hardly outside the airport boundaries. The engine would roast in the summer doing this!

BTW - Pete Howell confirmed a theory we had on the gas cap o-rings. He had the same thing happen today at the pump - couldn't get the caps off. However, waiting a few minutes seemed to allow the o-rings to shrink back diametrically enough to allow the caps to pop right out.

petehowell · #8 01-25-2009, 06:28 PM

I can't get the oil temp over 140 with a completely blocked oil cooler. Looks like I need tape on the intakes to the plenum.

Climbing is amazing, gas pumping is numbing. I tried to gas up yesterday with Kate as co-pilot. When I was hooking up the static ground wire, she yelled "Too Cold! Back to the hangar, NOW!"

I did not argue.

On the gas caps - I lubed them up well with tri-flo before the flight - that might be a requirement as well.

MNForrest · #9 01-25-2009, 08:12 PM

I was wheels up at sunrise today in the Gopher C172. -7f. 1500fps and 90mph all day. At one point the VS needle got stuck at about 2k when I was climbing back up after some stall practice. Not sure it had ever been there!

ff

RV7Guy · #10 01-26-2009, 07:15 AM

You don't want to hear about our 75 degree weather, crystal clear and 70 mile visibility? Lots of flying going on. Yesterday, my neighbor brought home the Ford Tri-Motor he purchased last week at the Barrett-Jackson auction. It landed with Stearmans flying the wing. Oh yeah, watched this happen in shorts and T shirt.

Enjoy freezing your arse off. We are only going to get to 65 today. Brrrrrrr.......