SpyderMike
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- Joined
- Mar 3, 2011
- Messages
- 94
- Location
- So Cal and So Or
- Aircraft
- Cirrus SR22, Rans S-16
- Total Flight Time
- 500+
As I mentioned in my welcome mat thread, I recently ran across some old photos of my time at El Mirage in the early 1990s. Here are a few pictures.
This was the second iteration of my Bensen as the first with a direct drive stock VW would only get airborne in short hops on a warm day. This MAC 72 worked great until it seized when I was a few hundred feet in the air. It turns out my friend had not thoroughly mixed the oil and gas. Let's see, it had a Hall airspeed indicator, a single CHT gauge, and an engine RPM gauge = state of the art. Not to mention the Fred Flinstone brakes....
Once that engine seized, my gyro was set aside, and I got back into fixed wing. I ended up selling the gyro and trailer for something like $1600 and buying a Mooney M10 (Mooney's version of the Ercoupe).
Good memories - lots of fun.
Mike
This was the second iteration of my Bensen as the first with a direct drive stock VW would only get airborne in short hops on a warm day. This MAC 72 worked great until it seized when I was a few hundred feet in the air. It turns out my friend had not thoroughly mixed the oil and gas. Let's see, it had a Hall airspeed indicator, a single CHT gauge, and an engine RPM gauge = state of the art. Not to mention the Fred Flinstone brakes....
Once that engine seized, my gyro was set aside, and I got back into fixed wing. I ended up selling the gyro and trailer for something like $1600 and buying a Mooney M10 (Mooney's version of the Ercoupe).
Good memories - lots of fun.
Mike
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