Breakfast Fly In, DUC, TUPA, Hook, Aeronca

barnstorm2

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Saturday morning I got to get my first $66.50 omelet.

DUC (Dayton Ultralight Club) held a breakfast flyin which was also a Cessna fly-in at HookField, Middletown Ohio.

In my longest flight to date in my 2-place I flew about 45mins over some difficult territory to the flyin. However, once you get to Hook Field you find some nice farmland and lakes and rivers that come right up to the airport.

This was my first visit to Hook field from the air. I had done some computer work in the 80's for what was once the AERONCA aircraft company who's factory is at the airport.

As fate would have it one of the DUC officers has an AERONCA and he came up to be and offered to trade rides. I took him up on that offer right away! :D

I got to fly the FW for a while and it was very very cool for a Fixed Wing. This was the first FW time I have had since the 1980s. :rolleyes:

I sat in the back seat. Boy, it's weird to use rudder pedels like that ;)

He loved the gyro ride and he was all smiles and questions. We got to taxi out behind a Steerman.

On the way there and back I flew over AK Steele's Middletown steel plant.

I have taken tours of some of AK buildings before but I was set-aback when I flew over it. With the haze around me when I flew over the middle of the factory at 2000 feet it was AK property from horizon to horizon! :eek:

As I approached I could see the eerie orange-red glow of what I think was a molten pit of iron and some burn off flame towers.

I also go to pass by the famous WLW radio tower.

And I also got a pict of the State Prison, which I thought were some kind of cool shaped apartment buildings when I approached.. :rolleyes:

And a giant multi-story Jesus reaching to the sky built at a luxurious church which must have multi-millions worth in buildings and grounds. Somehow, I wonder what Sister Theresa or Jesus and the poor might do with all that money. Humm.. I had best not say more.

Some of the cool things to see; a BMW mini, Neat bi planes in all conditions, tail draggers everywhere, DC-3s and some happy owners of new ultralights.
 

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next set of pictures

Mark flew in in his Brantly.

I flew by Kings Island Amusement Park.
 

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More Pictures! When will it end?
 

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weather

weather

Hey,

Good shots, what was your flying weather like. ?

Be aware, the heat can pull some performance out of your machine. Btw, everything run good ?

Jonathan
 
automan1223 said:
Hey,

Good shots, what was your flying weather like. ?

Be aware, the heat can pull some performance out of your machine. Btw, everything run good ?

Jonathan


High 80's, super humid, 10mph head wind ( both ways! :mad: )

She is running GREAT. The mixture is too rich though. I now have about 10 hours time on the current settings and I feel that I know the performance well enough now to be able to evaluate any changes.

I have run with auto gas and AV gas and get the same results on the EGT and RPM.

If I can get out of work early today or tomorrow I am going to take your advise and drop down a jet size or two and put in a fresh set of plugs for readings.

I flew her with 10 gallons in the seat tanks and 6 gallons in the Aux tanks, myself (185lbs) and a passinger (195lbs) and she few like a truck but she did fly and I was able to get 500fps out of her. Cruise RPM was a bit high though 4600-4700!!

I have noticed that sometimes she will go up to 5100RPM and other times only 5000. The higher RPM tends to come when on the first trip around the pattern of the day so I am assuming again that this is caused by my over-rich mixture.
 
Heavy does it.

Heavy does it.

Well not surprising. you ship was loaded, heavy, amazing what 20 degrees oat will do for your fpm.

Thats strange a cold engine usually will run lower than a warm one, due to oil viscosity, poor atomization of fuel in cold runners etc. at least for a carb setup. Once the engine saturates with heat mix and burn will change.

Trim your fuel and your timing, adjust your max rpm with timing only when engine fully warmed up. I usually do not go full t unless I see 140 on oil and water temps. My engine will hang back 2-300 rpms on a cold block. also not good for parts. your blade rpms might be a bit high too, lowering my blade rpm netted a lower cruise engine rpm.

once you get it dialed in I am sure you will see at least 5200-5250.

just watch your egts.
 
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