How about a $732 oil change?

[snowracer69]

Well, since I don't own an aircraft, they're all out of my price range too! My boss has a 210 and T206 and I got my high-perf/complex in the 210. My Dad is his chief pilot now that the other fella retired, and he flys about 20 hours/week flying the fish&wildlife and the pi$$-Firs around counting ducks (I kid you not) and spotting for forest fires. Dad had to bring in the C210 gear up last year because of a hydraulic failure... perfect landing, only to dang near get run over by the fire trucks!! hahaha... . anyway...

The first 30 seconds after leveling out at 3000ft is probably my favorite moment in time,

Sorry, I just have to laugh at that!! hahahahah... . ok, enough (and I'm just playing anyway. ). I've only been lower then 5000 ft MSL when I was PIC 3 times!!! Prescott, where I've done most my flying is at 5000 ft and home is at 4000 ft, both MSL. I had a buddy here at school who was from Conneticut (sp?) and he had never been above 2500' MSL till he came here, where we take off at 5045'!!! Definitely a different sort of flying in the mountains.



Oh, and being at 17,000 MSL w/o oxygen for 10 minutes is an interesting experience that nobody who flys should ever go without... hypoxia is an insane feeling, and I'm very glad that I am able to readily able to identify the effects!



Fun times... anyone who flys is a friend of mine!



Josh

 

[Big_Daddy_T]

Didnt the hindenburg run 4-6 hp diesel engines that weighed in at 800-1000 lbs. We got a peak at them when it blew up. They had been touted as the highest tech diesel engines in the world. They were not.



Gues I got the wrong airship. The hindenberg had 1200hp mercedes benz diesel engines. Does anyone recall the airship that Im talking about.

 

[Chris N5CWM]

Anybody been to Oshkosh?

This is me in the left seat of my dad's '62 Beechcraft Debonaire.



We spent a few days watching the airshow at the annual EAA Air Venture show at Oshkosh.



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Here are the rest of the images. Click on the small image to view it full size.



My dad's Debonaire has been BOMBED! It has a 310 HP Continental IO-520. It's a 520 cubic inch 6 banger! The engine that came in the plane back in '62 was a 225HP IO-470. The engine and 3-blade prop required an STC, or Supplemental Type Certificate to install. Basically permission from the FAA to modify the engine and airframe. It cruises about 25 knots faster than a stock Deb and much better climb performance and higher weight carrying capacity. Right now it cruises about 175 Kts TAS, or about 210 MPH over the ground in calm wind. My dad is a retired Continental Boeing 777 captain and has flown the Airbus A300, Macdonnell Douglas DC10-30, MD-80/DC9 over his career.



Myself, I have my ATP license and I'm rated in the EMB-120 Brasilia and the Boeing 757/767 which I currently fly. I have also flown the MD-80 as copilot, and the B727-200 as Flight Engineer and later as copilot. Right now I'm going through groundschool on the Boeing 737 and should be flying it by the end of November.



Aviation is quite a career and I enjoy it a lot. It's a different view out the window of my "office" every time I take off.



As far as the aviation industry has been impacted since 9/11. . before that day I could have been Captain on the B737 but there have been 600+ pilot furloughs and a lot of planes have been parked. All of our DC10s are gone, the B727s went away back in 2000. Now the MD80s are slowly being parked. I can hold B757/767 as copilot with crappy schedules or B737 copilot with great schedules (weekends and holidays off) so that's why I'm going through training right now. Sure beats the heck out of being laid off! I've been flying for the airlines since 1989 and have seen several airlines (Eastern, Pan Am, TWA) go out of business.

 

[Champane Flight]

New

Neat pics Chris, I have wanted to go to Oshkosh for years. Maybe I had better go next year. I don't have any buds with planes anymore, is lodgeing available for the grounded?



We did a overhaul on a IO 520 once, while running it up on the test stand it froze on us. It kept getting slower and slower by 50 rpm increments. Finally after loseing around 250 rpm I shut it down. It would not turn over from there. Whoever did the valve guide reaming went with too small of a ream, it just slowed down as it heated up, we had to heat the heads/cylinders up in the oven and then cool just the guides with cold water to free both guides and valves up. Long process. Had to replace all the push rods, they had a little bend to them.

 

[Chris N5CWM]

My dad an I are probably going to Oshkosh again next year. There are a few local families that take in folks for the week in their homes. That's what we did. The house we stayed at was a 10 minute walk from the airport. I think it was $35/night. Check around on the internet but most are word-of-mouth. Once I get our reservations confirmed I'll check and see if they have a bed available!

That 520 that froze up on you. . sounds like a pretty expensive mistake! At least it happened on the ground and not in the air, huh!?

 

[Champane Flight]

Yes sir

That is why they make test stands. It was one of my first run ups, I knew something was wrong when I went to the first 1500 set, just not quick enough.



Are there any campgrounds or camping? I could pull my fifthwheel?

 

[Chris N5CWM]

Camping with a 5ver. . that sounds like a plan!



Yep they have facilities for travel trailers but it says you

have to be an EAA member. There is a lot of info on the

campsite and other facilities

at this link.

 

[Champane Flight]

Long winter

It will be a long winter. Thanks Chris, we will keep you informed on status. Gotta talk the boss into it, or plan on cooking my own meals. May even have to upgrade my Fifthwheel.

 

[klenger]

This thread sure detour a turn a while back.

 

[Chris N5CWM]

Thread drift

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. I actually tried to find some pics or info on oil changes for mining equipment or locomotives but can't find anything! Not even for supertankers or ships!