Notes to Self 4

[L Caldwell]

Ever thought about drawing pictures, cartoon style, to this?  We could 
have the adventure of the month in the K-factor!!!

Larry Caldwell

Tim Taylor wrote:

> The Opening scene. Local Flying field
>  
> Setup: Dead calm winds, partly cloudy, the Day we've been waiting for!
>  
> As we pick up our continuing saga of TimmyT's planned return to the 
> pattern warns. We see our fearless leader and his faithful caller 
> "Flying Buddy"  starting the airplane on the stand.
>  
> "Oh man this thing is starting easily now there Flying buddy! must be 
> breaking in nicely"  As our fearless leader turns around to 
> place something back into the trailer ( Flying buddy has the 
> transmitter)  he hears the engine rpm's come up and flying buddy 
> Holler "OH &$^%($^%)# . As TimmyT turns around he sees the airplane, 
> still in the stand coming up tail first with the nose headed for the 
> ground still running. Fast as a flash , with a broken in half fuse 
> picture in his minds eye, He grabs for the airplane and manages to 
> catch the right wing front and rear and stop the whole contraption 
> from impacting the ground and doing major damage. "Damn I didn't know 
> it'd do that says Flying Buddy!  "Well now you do so DON'T do that 
> anymore"!!!!!!!  Why is the right aileron stuck down about 30 degrees? 
> Turn the airplane over and look at the aileron and find that the hard 
> point is broken loose. Well so much for flying today. TimmyT starts to 
> take the airplane apart and put it back into the trailer as 
> FlyingBuddy makes some excuse that he has to go to an appointment that 
> he suddenly remembered. 
>  
> Next Scene is our Hapless leader working on the airplane back at the shop.
>  
> "Any more help like this and I've had it". Ok lets see what it's going 
> to take to fix this. Ok that was a clean break the hard point just 
> came loose and the hole is pretty much intact. So break out the 5 
> minute epoxy and reglue the aileron hard point back in. While doing 
> that we'll change the 1100ma battery pack for the 1800ma pack to see 
> if we were really that tail heavy.   Ok that's all done so let's look 
> outside and make sure Flying Buddy isn't back from his "Appointment" 
> yet. Nope coast is all clear.
>  
> Next scene our somewhat ego deflated hero is back at the flying field 
> ALONE!
>  
> Ok take off run is sweet, climb out is good and trim pass the elev 
> trim seems to be off, oh ya that's right I put the bigger battery in 
> this thing to move the cg forward.  Ok the airplane handles much 
> better than it has in the past, must have been fighting a balance 
> problem all along. Ailerons are back to their normal self and we're 
> now deciding to it's time to practice.
>  
> What is the sequence that I'm supposed to be flying again? Oh yes it's 
> a reverse Cuban followed by a stall turn to a slow roll, what the heck 
> comes after that? (*^%*)#%_(*^%_(#%^ Flying Buddy has the call sheet 
> in his pocket. Ok that's enough for today pack the airplane up and 
> we'll start fresh tomorrow.
>  
> Fade To Black as our mentally drained pattern flier locks the gate to 
> the flying field and heads home.
>  
>  
> Stayed tuned for tomorrow's going be wild trying to put the whole 
> sequence together into one single flight.

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