I did get to Johnson city, There was no fuel, pot holes that I thought was going to break the gear off and rebar sticking up all over in the ramps, no one around and it all around sucked. I took off down wind just so I didn't have to back taxi the runway. Went straight to Elizebethton and had the exact oppisite experience, linemen meet me, parked me, chocked the plane borought the fuel right over and had several very pleasant conversations with the locals as they drooled over my KR and envied the fuel burn. I had a great time at Jack's on Saturday even though I was a little bit out of it. I choose not to have my morning coffee for the long flight and that was a mistake. I had a terrible headach all day. Had a coffee at home and it went away instantly. Mark is documenting the fuel stuff pretty well and I can echo most of his results. The 3050 rpm number is something that I have found to like also for cruise speed and it translates to just under 153 mph for my plane. This trip I was slightly under that as I have the nose wheel pant off right now. That seems to cost 3.5 mph and who knows how much fuel. I flew somewhere close to 1100 miles on Saturday and burned about 36 gals for the total trip. that includes all the long climbs and high speed passes. Just about 30mpg over all not just what is for the cruise part of the flight. You guys better watch flying with Langford, he is a bad influence, Trying to keep up with him on arrival he had me doing 205 on the arrival anouncement missed approach., I really should have done a slow pass then to have Jack look to make sure I still had landing gear. See ya'll at SNF on thursday Joe Horton
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: Dan Rogers <dns...@gmail.com> To: Corvair engines for homebuilt aircraft <corvaircr...@mylist.net> Subject: Re: CorvAircraft> KR flying List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:22:37 -0500 I found Hensley Airpark on Google. It is just down the road a piece from where I learned to fly in Elizabethton. (33 years ago this summer) If you really want to get near the junction of TN, VA, and NC you need to go to Johnson County Airport in Mountain City, TN. Dan Rogers Mark Langford wrote: > NetHeads, > > > > Tomorrow I plan to meet Joe Horton at Jack Cooper's new place up near the > junction of Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina (04TN) for lunch. For Joe > it'll probably be at least a $200 hamburger. I'm looking forward to meeting > up with them, and am already offering gifts to the weather gods for the > opportunity It'll be great to visit with them both. > > > _________________________________________________________ search the CorvAircraft archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/corvairsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from CorvAircraft, send a message to corvaircraft-le...@mylist.net Other CorvAircraft list info is at http://www.krnet.org/corvaircraft_inst.html ____________________________________________________________ Live your dreams. Click here to find information on becoming a lawyer. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTOPOKSIYvgWmfSeG1lrPnsVUWvhzDJfgGmx7dzK0psAmd8boyyIvu/
