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| Subject: | Re: Sunday Flight |
I have been a dummy. We are traveling the East coast and just didn't
think about visiting any of our Pulsar friends. I'm still a Left Coast
brain person. We are currently in Vermont and heading to Niagara Falls
tomorrow. It will take a couple of days to get there.
If any of our friends are in the Maine to Florida region I would love to
visit and maybe bum a joy ride. Getting to see my little bird,
(compliments of Greg Smith), was amazing. Watching my grandson get a
ride in Ricks Pulsar was heart warming. Jordan was a tiny kid when I was
building mine. I have a picture of him walking inside the fuselage and
carrying a screwdriver.
We are traveling all over the East coast doing the genealogy thing. One
of the stops along the way will be in Williamsport for the Little League
World Series. We will spend a couple of weeks there.
If you can't fly, take the slow road and enjoy the sights.
Myron Truex
From: Casey King
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: Pulsar-List: Sunday Flight
Well done. Thoroughly enjoyed reading the flight report & am reminded
once again of all the people that I=99ve met through this group.
Casey
On Jul 20, 2015, at 11:12 AM, Bernard Wilder
<bernard.wilder2@gmail.com> wrote:
I particularly wanted to go flying Sunday despite the fact that the
temperature was in the mid-90s and we had the usual mid Atlantic Haze
hanging over the region. Despite the haze the AWOS at 3W6 was saying the
visibility was over 10 miles.
I pulled my Pulsar XP ((390XP)) out of the hanger into the bright
morning sun light and looked her over. She is beginning to show her age
having taken her first flight 15 years ago. She suffers from hanger rash
which manifests its self in the form of a few dings and scrapes here and
there. The top rear tip of the rudder is bent over, as is the outer
corner of the starboard elevator. The cushions which I upholstered
myself no longer do the plane justice. There has been a very slow brake
fluid leak in the starboard wheel cylinder that for some reason stopped
leaking six months ago. I wish all other problems resolved themselves as
easily.
When I was doing the development of techniques to apply Poly Fibers
water-based Topcoat I used my plane on which to try the techniques. I
didn't have the technique down until I got to my wings which have held
up very well. However the fuselage where I was using earlier techniques
suffers from cracks in the topcoat and at some point must be repainted.
Though the surface of the wings have stood up well there are places on
the leading edge of the wings where the topcoat was peeled away during
my 325 mile an hour spiral dive episode.
When the bacon saver came loose I couldn't find the hole within the
wing that holds the metal tube on which the bacon saver is mounted. And
I guess one might expect that something that is 15 years old might have
some duct tape on it somewhere and on my pulsar it is keeping the bacon
saver in place at the leading edge of the wing.
The Rotax 912 that I paid $8900 for in 1998 still runs great despite
the fact that in the intervening 17 years I have not done any of the
upgrades that Rotax has tried to sell me. The rubber mounts for the
carburetors are the original ones and are still in very good condition.
No cracks and the rubber is still supple. But then, I have a technique I
use to start the engine that eliminates the bang at startup.The engine
has almost 700 hours on it total and it has been 65 hours since the last
oil change. I have not had to add any oil since the change.
The engine started up and ran smoothly so I went out to the end of
runway 29er and took off. I had intended to cross from the west side
of the Chesapeake Bay to the east side and continue on to the Atlantic
Ocean on a little sightseeing trip. However I couldn't see across the
bay because of the haze so I turned around and went south across the
Potomac and headed up toward Fort AP Hill. There the Rappahannock abuts
the restricted area so I turned and headed down the Rappahannock River.
It twists and turns around as it heads toward the Chesapeake Bay. This
makes for a nice flight trying to match its twists and turns. Close to
the point where the river enters the Chesapeake Bay it goes under the
restricted area of the Patuxent River Naval Air Base. There I turned
north northwest and headed back home.
The engine had continue to run smoothly at 4850 RPM. At this RPM my
air speed trues out at the required 135 mph - she is a light sport, you
know.,
The trip back across the Potomac River and the landing was uneventful.
390XP is still a thrill to fly even though she is old and beat up like
her pilot.
The flight was especially significant for me because of the fact that
the flight celebrated my 84th birthday.
Bernie Wilder
P.S. Is there anyone regularly flying a Pulsar who is over 84?
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