Ken,
If you go to Sun and Fun, look up Johnny Murphy. he is the guru of
plastic airplanes. Built one of the first Glasair ll's, the first
Glassair lll, and just finished a White lightning. He was our
inspector before anything flew and is a wealth of
knowledge..........Bobby
> Some of you know that I am building a White Lightning as well as flying a
> KR-2. Yesterday the weather looked favorable so I flew down to see my
> White
> Lightning mentor, Bill Fields, a youngster in his mid 80's. Had lunch
> with
> Bill and his son Joe after they showed me their latest project, a radial
> powered CH701. Winds were favorable with cruise ground speeds ranging
> from
> 170 to 185 kts at 11500 ft, and up to 195 kts on my decent after clearing
> the mountains. (This is with about 130kts TAS cruise.) My planned route
> from KHAO to KCEU was 294 nm. Elapsed time from take off roll to engine
> shutdown was 1 hr 58 minutes. (It's amazing how much time those one or two
> degree course errors can eat up.) Fuel used was 9.8 gal. I'm pretty
> conservative about fuel reserves, knowing (and unfortunately having known)
> pilots who weren't conservative enough, so I try to plan on using only 10
> of
> my 14 gallons. On the return, ground speeds were only about 85 kts at
> 8500
> ft but picked up to about 105 at 6500 ft and a little better as I got
> lower
> and closer home. Made one stop about mid-way taking on 8.1 gallons of
> fuel
> and probably used another 7 on the last leg. Flying time about 3 hrs 15
> minutes. All in all another successful day in the Porkopolis Flying Pig.
>
> BTW, on Tuesday I saw as low as 39 kt ground speed in a Cherokee 140 at
> about 105 kts TAS. The big rigs on the interstate were passing us. We
> took
> about 5 hrs to fly 250 nm, but made the return in less than half the time.
>
> Many of you have seen the Pig, so you know that looks aren't everything.
> So get those KR's finished enough to fly and get them in the air. Sun 'n
> Fun will be here before you know it.
>
> Ken Jones, kenbjo...@cinci.rr.com
> Sharonville, OH
> N5834, aka The Porkopolis Flying Pig
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