---------------------------------------------------------- TeamGrumman-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sat 09/27/14: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 07:52 AM - Re: New...... (Rick Young) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 07:52:46 AM PST US From: Rick Young Subject: Re: TeamGrumman-List: New...... Gary, Remember you always have a place to stay in KC, and the coolest car to drive while you are here! Rick N72T Sent from my iPad > On Sep 26, 2014, at 1:45 PM, "L. Bruce Smith" wrote: > > This has all the hallmarks of an interesting annual! > > Best, > > Bruce > Sent from iCloud > >> On Sep 26, 2014, at 02:02 AM, Gary L Vogt wrote: >> > >> 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 wrote: >> >> om> >> >> and interesting annuals, Gary? >> >> Best, >> >> Bruce Smith >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message teamgrumman-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/TeamGrumman-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/teamgrumman-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/teamgrumman-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.