---------------------------------------------------------- Commander-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sun 03/21/04: 6 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 09:36 AM - N222JS (YOURTCFG@aol.com) 2. 11:33 AM - Re: N222JS (Chris Schuermann) 3. 06:11 PM - Re: N222JS (Tom Fisher) 4. 08:04 PM - Re: N222JS (YOURTCFG@aol.com) 5. 08:16 PM - Re: N222JS (YOURTCFG@aol.com) 6. 09:48 PM - Re: N222JS (CloudCraft@aol.com) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 09:36:04 AM PST US From: YOURTCFG@aol.com Subject: Commander-List: N222JS --> Commander-List message posted by: YOURTCFG@aol.com HI KIDS. Just a quick update. I bought a pair of Twin bonanzas in AZ. One has very low time and great condition engines and "0" props. I am leaving tomorrow morning for the long drive (1571 miles) to remove them. I plan to have tripe two flying again in a couple weeks??? Hope all is well in your Commanderland. jb ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 11:33:35 AM PST US From: Chris Schuermann Subject: Re: Commander-List: N222JS --> Commander-List message posted by: Chris Schuermann YOURTCFG@aol.com wrote: > I plan to have tripe two flying again in a couple weeks Good to hear that JB! Maybe I missed the "rest of the story", but what exactly happened to tripple-two? All I caught was that there was some major engine problem. Hadn't you just put new engines on her? Chris ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 06:11:09 PM PST US From: "Tom Fisher" Subject: Re: Commander-List: N222JS --> Commander-List message posted by: "Tom Fisher" I walked around 222 last week and it was still safe and sound in the compound. Sure is a curvy looking machine, compared to my "B" anyway. Tom F. ----- Original Message ----- From: Subject: Commander-List: N222JS > --> Commander-List message posted by: YOURTCFG@aol.com > > HI KIDS. > > Just a quick update. I bought a pair of Twin bonanzas in AZ. One > has very low time and great condition engines and "0" props. I am leaving > tomorrow morning for the long drive (1571 miles) to remove them. > I plan to have tripe two flying again in a couple weeks??? Hope all is > well in your Commanderland. jb > > ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 08:04:52 PM PST US From: YOURTCFG@aol.com Subject: Re: Commander-List: N222JS --> Commander-List message posted by: YOURTCFG@aol.com In a message dated 3/21/2004 6:11:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, tfisher@commandergroup.bc.ca writes: Sure is a curvy looking machine, compared to my "B" anyway Thanks!! She is a saucy old gal!! jb ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 08:16:33 PM PST US From: YOURTCFG@aol.com Subject: Re: Commander-List: N222JS --> Commander-List message posted by: YOURTCFG@aol.com In a message dated 3/21/2004 11:34:04 AM Pacific Standard Time, cschuerm@cox.net writes: Hadn't you just put new engines on her? I had installed a "borrowed" engine on the left side. The engines that had been represented as "0" were not. The seller is a wonderful, honest and honorable man and when it was shown they were not overhauled, (In fact one was red tagged) he gave me my $$ back and loaned me an engine until I could get mine overhauled. I installed it and it ran great!! I flew it around here about 2 hours and then headed to Canada on biz. About 10 seconds after takeoff from abbotford, it through a counterweight through the case. I had retracted the LG, but the flaps were still down. I reached up and pulled the props to 3200 and BANG. The counterweight knocked a huge hole on the case/oil pan and started a fire. I burned all of the wiring on the outboard side of the engine and got hot enough to warp the lower cowling. The fire went through the augmenter and even burned the paint at the back of the nacelle. I feather it and the fire went out. Landed without trouble. The hardiest part was taxing back on one!! Anyway, I have now found two great, low time (153 $ 395) and a pair of "0" props in AZ. Hope to be flying again in 3 - 4 weeks. jb ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 09:48:16 PM PST US From: CloudCraft@aol.com Subject: Re: Commander-List: N222JS --> Commander-List message posted by: CloudCraft@aol.com In a message dated 03/21/04 09:36:21 Pacific Standard Time, YOURTCFG@aol.com writes: > I bought a pair of Twin bonanzas in AZ. One > has very low time and great condition engines and "0" props. I am leaving > tomorrow morning for the long drive (1571 miles) to remove them. > Let's see. A pair of Twin Bonanzas. Does that make it 4 Bonanzas? Or is that the same Twin pairs of Bonanzas? I just hope Dick Ward* doesn't find out you're cannibalizing his beloved T-Bones. Next thing that will happen is the T-Bone owners will start cannibalizing Twin Commanders. Maybe the two groups will merge with a composite airplane: The Twin Bonander. Or the Twin Commanza. What ever. Glad you'll get your 680-E airborne again. Wing Commander Gordon * For those of you who don't know, Dick Ward is to Twin Bonanzas what our own Capt. JimBob is to Commanders. The two aircraft were direct competitors in their day and there is a lot of crossover on engine and airframe issues that both groups deal with and can assist each other with.