Rocket Speed...

[smokyray]

Strong tailwinds down south over the last couple of days allowed me to really gallop home from Alabama the other day. The Rocket at 11,500 with a really strong tailwind can post some pretty amazing numbers (I wasn't in a dive either I know, I know, Rockets aren't RV's, kinda like Shelby's aren't Mustangs...

I snapped a picture of my G396 with my phone...gotta love it!

Smokey

 

[frankh]

Dang

Now if you tell me you were doing that on 7 gallons an hour I'd be really impressed..

Frank

 

[R.P.Ping]

smoke'n

That's ssssssssmoooooke'nnnn!

Best I've done is 210kts.

 

[brayski98]

Only one word to describe that. "Sweet!"

 

[joeboisselle]

That's just under 320 mph! Burning 14 gph would still be impressive.

 

[keithschult]

KC to Houston on Wednesday

The best groundspeed I could do this week was 239kts.@12,500 msl, burning 9.24 gph during a 3 hour flight. That's the fastest I have ever piloted anything. This was in my RV-6A.

 

[f1rocket]

Now if you tell me you were doing that on 7 gallons an hour I'd be really impressed..

Frank

When I flew down to Sun-n-Fun last year, I caught the weather just right and topped out at 270 KTS GS at 11,500 MSL. Best I could get out of the fuel flow was my usual 9.5 GPH.

 

[Chris Santschi]

Rocket Speed

Smokey:

You know ,they make Playboy model's look good with air bush too......

Chris S

 

[joeboisselle]

Rob, I believe you, but after that last post... I couldn't resist. =)