---------------------------------------------------------- Glasair-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Mon 11/12/12: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 0. 12:07 AM - What's Your Contribution Used For? (Matt Dralle) 1. 12:37 PM - Frozen Glasair pilot canopy problem (mppalmer@aol.com) 2. 05:12 PM - For your viewing enjoyment (mppalmer@aol.com) ________________________________ Message 0 _____________________________________ Time: 12:07:58 AM PST US From: Matt Dralle Subject: Glasair-List: What's Your Contribution Used For? Dear Listers, You might have wondered at some pointd, "What's my Contribution used for?" Here are just a few examples of what your direct List support enables... It provides for the expensive, commercial-grade Internet connection used on the List. 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List Contribution Web Site: http://www.matronics.com/contribution or, you can send a personal check to the following address: Matronics / Matt Dralle 581 Jeannie Way Livermore, CA 94550 Thank you for your support! Matt Dralle Email List Administrator ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 12:37:40 PM PST US Subject: Glasair-List: Frozen Glasair pilot canopy problem From: mppalmer@aol.com Had a strange problem with a Glasair canopy the other day. I think I figured it out. Let's see what you all think. My airplane partner and I flew to Seligman, Arizona for the $100 hamburger. (Actually, cheesecake. If you're flying over NW Arizona, stop in at Lilo's Restaurant, within a 10 minute walk from P23. World famous. Featured on a TV show in Germany.) Everything on the trip there worked fine. We landed at Seligman with a snow squall coming. It was about 40 to 45 degrees. Locked the plane and walked to the restaurant. While at the restaurant, a dry snow blew for about 40 minutes to an hour, with a 20 to 30 kt wind. After that, the snow stopped, the sky cleared overhead (blue above), but no sun due to other clouds blocking it to the SW. When we returned to the airplane (about 4:30 pm), I noticed some snow had stuck to the airframe. I thought that was strange, given the fact it was dry snow. See photo. img803.imageshack.us/img803/2126/frozencanopy.jpg When my partner tried to open the pilot side canopy, it only opened an inch or two. I could hear noise coming from the hinge area at the top, and that's where the canopy seemed to be binding. I thought one of the hinge pins must have backed out. (Although in 17 years, I've never seen those pins move.) Or they rusted solid. (I admit, I've gotten lazy about removing the pins and greasing very couple years.) It took a long time with frozen fingers to try to peel away the bulb seal and upholstery to inspect. (Especially since the canopy wouldn't open.) But the pins were fine. Not being able to figure out what was wrong and not wanting to damage the hinge pins by forcing the canopy open, my partner climbed into the plane from the copilot side. When we got back to home base, I got out and immediately shot some LPS into the hinges. I tried the canopy and it opened as it always had, without any resistance or noise. Whatddya think? Mike Palmer <>< ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 05:12:54 PM PST US Subject: Glasair-List: For your viewing enjoyment From: mppalmer@aol.com To dovetail on my previous post: Okay, a video of snow is probably silly. But after living in Arizona for 30 years now (a transplant from the NE), snow has become a novelty. Still, I could argue it gives your more data for my previous post, to show how dry the snow was. So a cute sentimental 30 sec video of Snow in Seligman, Arizona: imageshack.us/clip/my-videos/843/peplewbpcvubebxyxfrndt.mp4/ And here's an image of a snow cloud taken from 8000 feet on the way from Phx to P23. The bases of the clouds were very consistent at 8500' and the tops only to 15,000'. (OAT -2) I new there couldn't be enough moisture in the clouds to make wet snow. In fact, I'm surprised the clouds dumped as much (dry) snow as they did. But that's Arizona for you, "hit or miss" precip. Not sure why that is - maybe precip gets triggered by waves over the rugged terrain of our high country? I forget what the Winds Aloft were Saturday but the surface winds were 15 G 25 en route. http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/294/inthemidstofastorm.jpg Hope you enjoy. 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