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Gary,
Remember you always have a place to stay in KC, and the coolest car to drive
while you are here!
Rick
N72T
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> On Sep 26, 2014, at 1:45 PM, "L. Bruce Smith" <haveblue1@mac.com> wrote:
>
> This has all the hallmarks of an interesting annual!
>
> Best,
>
> Bruce
> Sent from iCloud
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>> On Sep 26, 2014, at 02:02 AM, Gary L Vogt <teamgrumman@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
>> Hi Bruce,
>>
>> Well, I have a real interesting story about picking up a plane in Virgini
a and flying it back to California.
>>
>> One of my customers brought a Grumman Traveler project to me a couple of w
eeks ago. Last Monday, I told him that it would be a better use of him money
to find a Tiger project than to put the Traveler back together.
>> On Tuesday, I found a great candidate in Lynchburg Virginia. On Wednesday
, my customer and I decided to fly (commercial) to VA and look at the plane.
If it's as advertised, we'd fly it home.
>> We left Thursday night, got to Lynchburg Friday morning, and checked out t
he plane. I had to do a quick and dirty fix on the engine baffle seals befor
e we left or the engine would have overheated too easily.
>> By 2pm, we were headed west. Our first stop was in Mt Carmel, IL some 3 h
rs and 45 minutes later. Four hours and 25 minutes later, we landed in Lawre
nce, Kansas. We pushed 10-20 knot winds to Illinois and winds as high as 50 k
nots across Kansas. We landed in Lawrence with 6 gallons of fuel. It was a l
ong day . . . . on almost no sleep.
>> We spent the night at the house a friend of my customer who just happened
to live in Topeka. The next morning, we fired up the Tiger and prepared for
take-off. Unfortunately, it failed a mag check. It took about an hour and 4
new spark plugs to fix it.
>> My customer and another friend of his HAD planned on driving to Oshkosh, l
eaving on Friday morning. His friend, instead, left Friday on his own. The p
lan was for us to fly partially back to California and drop off my customer a
t an airport along I80 and wait for his friend. So, we flew 3 hrs and 25 min
utes to Sidney, Nebraska and I dropped him off.
>> =46rom there on, it was just the Rockies and the Sierras between me and h
ome flying in an unknown plane. The flight to Salt Lake City took another 3 h
rs and 50 minutes. Lotsa wind to be pushed.
>> The stop in SLC was quick and by 7:00p Saturday, I was taking off on my l
ast leg. The sun was setting as I crossed the Ruby range of mountains near E
lko, NV. I stayed at 12,500 feet to keep from hitting any mountains for the r
est of the flight to Auburn. Just in case.
>> I could see the lights of Reno about 30 miles before I got there. Between
Reno and Auburn there were no ground references. I flew direct over the Sie
rras to Auburn. Absolutely no lights under me. It was as though I was flying
over open ocean at night.
>> I started my decent into Auburn 20 miles out and landed at 10:45pm. I was
home a little after 11:00pm.
>> All together, I flew about 2500 miles in about 19 hours flight time.
>> It was a great adventure.
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>
>> Now, for the rest of the story. The right outboard aileron bracket was b
roken. I knew that before I took off. Not a big deal, really. All four ac
cess covers on the left wing leaked fuel. Two on the right wing leaked fuel.
The baffle seals were original and so bad that I did a quick baffle seal r
eplacement on all but one baffle.
>>
>> It's in a new home now: Beautiful Auburn, California. At least until it'
s airworthy.
>>
>> Attached are pics inside the wing tips.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 3:51 PM, L. Bruce Smith <haveblue1@mac.com
> wrote:
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>>
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>>
>> and interesting annuals, Gary?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Bruce Smith
>>
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