See you there!
v/r,dr
All saddled up and read to go (Thursday).
v/r,dr
All saddled up and read to go (Thursday).
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… He sent me this picture Thu evening.
Oh no......
And so far I've counted five A-model rudders with holes in them. There will be more.
…..we’ll have fun he said. ;^)
Screen grab of quite a few pointed that way.
SNIP
There is also another interesting failure mode I have noticed on at least 3 A models with the riveted trailing edge and I think all of them have the “gust lock” type with the angle Al going between the rudder horn and the cable attach point.
The “pin the horn” or the “padded clamps” on the counterweight type stops always fail.
Here is the simple and very strong way to go.
Carl
Carl where does that attach to on the horiz?
Two accidents within about 15 minutes. Strong gusty winds.
"787 overhead the lake, request long rollout, please."
Closest I'll get this year, sigh...
The airport was closed several times today creating more aircraft in the air waiting to land.
I was playing with setting on my camera and lens trying to perfect settings (mostly shutter speed) to get great airplane photos. (airplane in focus and prop blurred)
I watched (what look like an L-19) land on runway 36R and have it's left wing go up and do a ground loop off the runway. I unfortunately did not have presence of mind to press the shutter button to capture it till after the airplane came to a stop and emergency crews arrived.
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Another closure was reported to have occurred shortly there after when a tailwheel RV exited the runway into the grass and nosed over but this closure did not last long. I had already walked away from the runway area when this occurred.