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John Hauck

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:26 am Post subject: Flying Rivers

Morning Gang:



The thread on flying rivers prompted me to pull out one of my favorite 

river photos.  This one was taken about halfway between Eagle Plains, 

YT, and Dawson City, YT, a stretch of 250 miles with no population 

(that's people) in between.  That's the Blackstone River I am flying 

south down.  What a beautiful setting.  With the weather so beautiful, 

hard to believe I barely got through the next mountain pass, I believe 

the Tombstone Mountains, and was put down by "no" ceiling a few miles 

south.



Flying rivers is fun.  Make sure to keep a way out if the fan quits.



john h

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Steve Boetto

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 365

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:12 am Post subject: Flying Rivers

Beautiful shot John,

 I'd have to go down and carve it up a bit with some aluminum floats.

 

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a58r(at)verizon.net
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject: Flying Rivers

We have been sufeited, nay, well-supplied with many great air-pix brought to us by intrepid Kolbsters who have roamed the air in search of scenes to titillate those of us hard aground or chained to a usurious mortgage. Not being well-grounded, and having long go quitted myself of financial encumbrances, I broke the surly bonds and went Kolbing.

After the many days of 90F a moderate day presented itself, just in time for a week of Fall rainstorms, working its way up for hurricanes. With a weather hiatus, I heave The Great Silver Bird from its cage and do my usual walk-around, complete with wiggling, shaking and close eye balling. No critters, no mud daubers. FireFly E003RN broke into a chattering roar after the requisite five yanks on the Armstrong Starter System. Sure, I have the Famous-Mark S.-Never-Fail-Two-Strokes-Or-Fewer-Primer-Pump, waiting to be installed! Well, the EIS has come alive and most of the numbers look mostly OK, good enough to at least taxi. Doing Bob's Famous Cockpit Entry I do the FireFly Bass-Ackwards Flop, being careful not to hit the throttle or scrape the windshield with my Number 9 EEEEEEs.  Throttle back to 1800, long enough to yank up the chock-on-a-rope. Out to the active, waiting on two or three GAs... and the Citation that smells like a coal oil lamp with a bad wick.



OK, good to go. Wind 8-10 on calibrated windsock, mostly on the nose. Ease forward with left hand, little forward stick. Wooo, we're off way before the second runway marker, making turns for 5300 on the main shaft. Halfway down the 5600' runway, I'm at 700 and straight out to leave both the circuit bashers and the many corporate iron that uses our regional airport to escape the traffic madness at Dulles and the insane regulations that preclude most prospective users from the Washington ADIZ, aka The Black Hole.



Pretty cool, but scrunching down the wind just hits my forehead. Hope the elastic string-thing holds my prescription shades...Mr. IVO hopes too. Dang, i really have to put in a bit more pitch, EGTs too near 1200. Most of the numbers seem reasonable, so clear of the traffic area, as well as what might be called "congested," I make for 500', keeping all four eyes peeled for errant F-15s who might be hungry for an easy FireFly decal to stick on their mighty steed. [To Homeland Security: there is no truth to the rumor that it takes downing 10 ULs to become a Black Hole Ase]



Boy, do we ever need rain! Yards are brown, except where the septic tank drain fields are lush green. But then we're warned of possible flash flooding of the many "cricks" and low areas. The all too quickly vanishing apple and peach orchards are doing well, in spite of the lack of rain and the rapidly encroaching houses...no known chemical will hold them back! Circling back around our little town I see the many parking lots jammed full of buyers, not just shoppers...and hardly a clunker car to be seen. Either our economy is in great shape, or the banks own the populace. Two huge (are there any other?) WalMarts in a town of 22,000!



A pass over a couple loops of the low Shenandoah River shows many sand and mud bars, few boater or fishers, no friendly waves. Back up I-81 showed little evidence of near-three dollar gas. Hordes of semis, coveys of four-heelers darting in/out...all easily besting the FireFly. Saw no police; probably they were in plain-clothes cars captured from drug dealers or other miscreants. Good on them.



Being on a short leash, I duck off the interstate and downwind for the same active, watching for the zealous students doing their interminable round-and-squat, repeat until PPLed. Back off the mighty fan to 3500, AS around 40, down the old groove, just like the playground slide. Usual small drop- and-flop (Paddles, did I catch no. 2 wire?) and off to the barn.



With my good wife we toasted each other at our friendly Cork Street Tavern, presenting my chit for a free desert, courtesy of the management: "Happy (insert number here) Birthday, Bob." 



regards,



Bob N.

http://www.angelfire.com/rpg/ronoy/



 



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jsflan(at)valornet.com
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject: Flying Rivers

Bob,

  

 What's it like to have a 20-pound unlimited edition Thesaurus! Enjoyed the  descriptive, seldom cryptic, style and perceptive, ponderable pictures  you painted  in your aerial world so different from my own   out here in Scaleywater, New Mexico. Thanks for allowing me to piggyback  on the joyful ride, and Happy B Day,

  

 jsf

  

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pj.ladd(at)btinternet.com
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Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:54 am Post subject: Flying Rivers

become a Black Hole Ase]>>

  

 Hi Bob,

  

 Should Ase be spelt with a `C` or is there an `r`  missing there?

  

 Cheers

  

 Pat

  

 Signing off for a week. Off to sunny Italy in the  morning.

  

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John Hauck

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:28 am Post subject: Flying Rivers

Happy Birthday, Bob!



Hope I can do a birthday flight if I reach your age.



john h

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biglar

Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Posts: 457

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 6:08 am Post subject: Flying Rivers

Sounds like a great way to celebrate, Bob.  Happy  Birthday to ya, and all the  best.                 Lar.                   Do not Archive.

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jsflan(at)valornet.com
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Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:47 am Post subject: Flying Rivers

The only river in this part of Nuevo Mexico  is the Rio  Grande (called Rio Bravo in earlier times). I have walked across it and  hardly got my feet wet...no religious jokes, thank you.  

  

 This morning did a photo flight over north end of Elephant Butte Reservoir  where it comes in, The Narrows. Still runoff from flooding and dredging. Found  23 of my old buddies resting, Ex-wife, a biologist and I,  did 300 hours in  Cessna 150 taildragger one summer studying great white pelicans, USAF and Salt  Lake International  wanted  to cut down on northern Utah bird strikes.  Still battling exposures but maybe a few usables for print shows. The motor was  okay, knock on wood. 

  

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Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:29 am Post subject: Flying Rivers

John,

What is your cruise rpm and gph? I just got mine done and flew it, I want to 

see what your numbers are.

Thanks,

David Key

Ralph Hoover

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 206
Location: Central Ohio

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:39 am Post subject: Re: Flying Rivers

Bob N. You sure do talk purdy! I almost went to sleep with them wurds. Thankey.



As to the people below spending like their ain't no mindset of realty, we have that here in beautiful Sunbury, Ohio. You see, gas is now down to $2.39 per gallon and its time  to celebrate by spending again. God times abound and all should be happy. Thank goodness and our lucky stars that we still have our credit cards available.  Little does the great populous know that the "giants are resting" from their previous kill and will be back around the desert watering hole when the greedy bastards get hungry again. Until then, the complacent hordes of fools will gain acceptance for the "its ok for gas to be around $ 2.50 to $ 3.00 per gallon. After all, they could be gouging(?) us for $ 5.00 per gallon". 



You see, they fooled the Brits by making their gallon a quart bigger than our gallon. That's why Pat and others are "happy" to pay equal to $ 7.00 per "Imperial" gallon. Pat, lead by example, stop flying that plane!



P.S. Bob N., I have not forgotten to answer you question to me regarding God, I am still working on it. Itâ€™s 8 pages and still a little more. The fact that my son got married on short notice, my Mother, with cancer, died last week and my daughter, with learning disabilities,  totaled her car this week may cause a slight delay in finishing it. That and my prop came in and I need to install it for some personal R. and R.



Counting my pennies, as well as my Blessings, here in Ohio Ralph.

Denny Rowe

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 89
Location: Leechburg, PA

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject: Flying Rivers

Great post ol Buddy, made me recall how  much of a hoot your books were to read.

  

 Denny

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Snoopy Baxley

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 42

Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 7:18 am Post subject: Flying Rivers

Thanks Bob for a New set of vocabulary to decribe the mostly undecrible " Fun " of  Flying . LOL .

 And a Happy Birthday to you too....

  

  

  

 Pretty cool, but scrunching down the wind just hits my forehead. Hope the elastic string-thing holds my prescription shades...Mr. IVO hopes too. Dang, i really have to put in a bit more pitch, EGTs too near 1200. Most of the numbers seem reasonable, so clear of the traffic area, as well as what might be called "congested," I make for 500', keeping all four eyes peeled for errant F-15s who might be hungry for an easy FireFly decal to stick on their mighty steed. [To Homeland Security: there is no truth to the rumor that it takes downing 10 ULs to become a Black Hole Ase]

 ou too.

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WillUribe(at)aol.com
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:10 pm Post subject: Flying Rivers

The Rio Grande has never been this full, another test post.

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Russ Kinne

Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Posts: 182

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:35 am Post subject: Flying Rivers

Great pix! -- weren't you flying a little low?do not archive



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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:59 am Post subject: Flying Rivers

That's why Pat and others are "happy" to pay equal to $ 7.00 per "Imperial" 

gallon.>>



Hey Ralph,



where did you get this `happy` bit. I don`t think we ever said that.



I would just point out that in spite of the increased  cost of  oil the 

majority of the money paid at the pump is tax imposed by our respective 

governments.

All you can do is stop voting for them. But then no one will admit voting 

for either Bush or Blair but they are there just the same.



As the man said `If voting made any difference they wouldn`t let us do it`.



Cheers



Pat



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