Fun day flying - sort of

[Randy Powell]

Went flying today at the Narrows. Just me and Pete Peterson. I've got the Ringmaster Deluxe flying pretty well overall. Adding some stouter lines helped. Still messing with props, but it's in the neighborhood. Pete had a less fine day experiencing the finer points of turbulence slapdown. Luckily, he is the luckiest SOB on the planet. Skidded in inverted at the bottom of the outside loops. We were both certainly surprised. Looked like a hand came down and just pushed it in. Only damage was a busted canopy, about an inch of rudder ground off and a slight scrap to the outboard tip. All fixable. No apparent structural damage at all. Good thing, too. It's an awfully pretty plane. Oh, and an Eather prop that won't see anymore service since it's now about 3" in diameter, but an untouched spinner and nose. Lucky indeed.

[frank carlisle]

Sounds like a fun day at the circle.

[john e. holliday]

It has to be one of those unexpected gravity holes.  Glad to hear it is repairable.   

[Randy Ryan]

Went flying today at the Narrows. Just me and Pete Peterson. I've got the Ringmaster Deluxe flying pretty well overall. Adding some stouter lines helped. Still messing with props, but it's in the neighborhood. Pete had a less fine day experiencing the finer points of turbulence slapdown. Luckily, he is the luckiest SOB on the planet. Skidded in inverted at the bottom of the outside loops. We were both certainly surprised. Looked like a hand came down and just pushed it in. Only damage was a busted canopy, about an inch of rudder ground off and a slight scrap to the outboard tip. All fixable. No apparent structural damage at all. Good thing, too. It's an awfully pretty plane. Oh, and an Eather prop that won't see anymore service since it's now about 3" in diameter, but an untouched spinner and nose. Lucky indeed.

Randy, I love your description of the inverted premature landing, it makes me feel better to hear that those flat airless pockets exist around CL circles elsewhere and ocassionally I have an airplane fall into one myself!! Ouch, those props are an expensive proposition!

Glad to hear its repairable.

[keith varley]

Randy   You didn't say which plane Pete was flying when he hit the black hole. Keith Varley

[Jack Mulinix]

Sorry to hear about Pete's day. If it was the Saturn, that was a sweet plane. Maybe we'll see ya next weekend. Jack

[Randy Powell]

Keith,

It was the self-same Saturn. And it is a good flying plane. Pete needs to order a new canopy so it probably won't be ready for the Roundup. Shame too. It was working.