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Posted on Fly-UL, this merits cross-posting.
This is certainly something I'd share at a fly-in and is something you might do
in your Coupe (though you can't match a trike's wide-open view downward, a
Coupe would sure beat a spam-can).
Jeff has made some in-the-air movies from his trike
that are really worth viewing.
This last one,
You broadband connected people should watch it.
You dial-up people who are patient and have a reliable connection may want
to. It's a 60 MB download for about 10 minutes of video.
Recommended,
Ed Burkhead
http://edburkhead.com
ed -at-
edburkhead???.com (change -at-
to @ and remove "???")
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From:
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 10:03 PM
To:
Subject: UL:
Hi everyone,
Just go to http://www.jeffsflightlog.com
and click on the "Movies" button.
The weather forecast that morning was for strong
winds, and
a 20 mph cross wind conditions after 2pm at the Belen
airport
(my home base). I wanted to get on my way as soon as
possible
and not get trapped on the ground by tailwinds like
what had
happened on Saturday. My trike was refueled and
prepped the
night before. Damien and I got up extra early
and I ended up
taxing out to the end of the runway at
25 min before sunrise.
I let the engine warm up for 5 minutes then took off
and headed
into the rising sun. I actually was in the air
so early I had
to linger east of
sun to rise. The predawn and sunrise lighting on
was fantastic.
The winds aloft were about 20 mph west so I circled
over
sunrise. 25 minutes after launch I had drifted
to Comb Ridge,
a 200 mile ridge that forms the eastern boundary of
The sky was clear and blue, the air crisp and cold,
and desert
wilderness stretched out in every direction. It
was a moment that
I will never forget. I radioed goodbye to Damien
and turned
downwind with a 20mph tail wind to start my journey
home.
I covered the ground so rapidly, I made it in one shot
without
refueling, reaching Belen in a little over 4
hours. This flight
stands as my all time most spectacular flight.
In addition to dawn
over
"the Sandworm" and Canyon de Chelly.
here are some links:
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com
Part 4 - Return
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/movies/20060108_mv4_return.wmv
60MB
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/movies/20060108_mv4_return.mpg
61MB
(for Macs)
Part 3 - The Interview
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/movies/20060107_mv3_interview.wmv
41MB
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/movies/20060107_mv3_interview.mpg
54MB
(for Macs)
Part 2 - That was Bumpy
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/movies/20060107_mv2_bumpy.wmv
56MB
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/movies/20060107_mv2_bumpy.mpg
87MB
(for Macs)
Part 1 - Outbound can be found here
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/movies/20060106_mv_outbound.wmv
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/movies/20060106_mv_outbound.mpg
I entered these flights in my flightlog last month
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/2006/2006_01_06_mv_outbound.htm
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/2006/2006_01_07_monument_valley.htm
http://www.jeffsflightlog.com/2006/2006_01_08_mv_return.htm
I hope you enjoy the show.
You may notice I added Google ads to my
webpages. I tried to make
them as unobtrusive as possible. So much so that some
of my friends
didn't notice them at all until I explicitly pointed
them out
to them (that's probably not the optimal way to do
it). If you
liked the show and feel like applauding, but don't
know how to do
this over the internet, you can do so by clicking on a
few ads.
I believe I saved the best for last.
Jeff
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