Let's see your full-scale airplane!

[Patto]

Need to see a few photos and read a few stories about your trip/adventure.

It was an adventure for sure. We drove 8+ hours down to Oakdale California from Eugene Oregon to take possession. The next morning, I had to do five hours with an instructor for insurance purposes. This was the most I had flown in about 12 years!!

Then, it was time for the flight home... As you can see, it was awesome... Went by Lake Shasta and Mt. Shasta.

 

[Pistolera]

Nice!

 

[WMcNabb]

It was an adventure for sure. We drove 8+ hours down to Oakdale California from Eugene Oregon to take possession. The next morning, I had to do five hours with an instructor for insurance purposes. This was the most I had flown in about 12 years!!

Awesome! Congratulations on your new acquisition!!

 

[Bartman]

very nice @Patto and good luck with it! i did an instrument rating with an owner in his M20, what a fun airplane to fly!

 

[Matt Carruthers]

Well this is not mine by any means even though I wish it was... But yesterday I spent the day at the airport. One of our buddies has a new project and I spent a couple hours climbing all over it and we even got to do an engine run. Amazing that when you sump the fuel it is 5 gallons per tank! And it comes out of a 3/4" tube not your normal fuel sump!

 

[Pistolera]

"Flight of the Albatross"....great movie....Oops, that was the Phoenix!

Pat & I had the pleasure of flying in one of these up in Alaska a few years back. She got the left front and I was in the navigator's seat behind her. Later went in the back and took some photos from the huge open doors (just the top 1/2's open). It's a Big-Assed-Bird!

What a wonderful experience and great memories!

 

[Matt Carruthers]

It's such a cool airplane! I did not realize until yesterday there is a hatch in the center of the fuse just behind the wing that lifts out and you can hoist a spare engine into the fuse and close it up! It's amazing that a 2,000 lbs engine just aft of the CG has no real effect on it! I can't wait until they get this bad boy flying! This one was ferried in from the desert and was purchased for less than $100,000... Pretty amazing you can get this for less than 100k but not a Skyhawk!

 

[Pistolera]

Yeah....but then ya gotta feed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Matt Carruthers]

Yeah....but then ya gotta feed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why does 50gph per engine seem like a lot??

 

[Jetpainter]

Why does 50gph per engine seem like a lot??

To Bill Gates, no................. to me definitely.