A-1 got some use today

[dmar836]

My instructor and I flew down for the "$100 hamburger" this morning. Wore the GW A-1 I got from bseal.

 

[ghq1]

Nice! Lambskin?

 

[fleet16b]

Looks like you were flying an "Airknocker"

 

[dmar836]

Yup. A '46 Champ. Great little plane to fly. Bounced and floated a bit at the unfamiliar field. Felt bad until Larry did the same in his Luscombe and he's flown for many a year. Wasn't just me. A bit bumpy but I greased two of my landings like I knew what I was doing. Great day!

 

[Flyderf]

Any landing you can walk away from, (and the airplane is re-usable) is a good landing. Nice jacket.

 

[JOHNO]

There is a certain feeling you get while wearing a leather flight jacket while flying, its hard to describe but you know you've done good when you catch the younger pilots discreetly checking out your jacket.

 

[bfrench]

Yup. A '46 Champ. Great little plane to fly. Bounced and floated a bit at the unfamiliar field. Felt bad until Larry did the same in his Luscombe and he's flown for many a year. Wasn't just me. A bit bumpy but I greased two of my landings like I knew what I was doing. Great day!

Those Champs are great - first taildragger I flew was a 65hp 7ac and first plane I bought was a 7BCM that had a Citabria and a Lycoming O-235 (115hp).

Finished up with a 150hp Decathlon - flew it for almost 20 years before getting away from flying (if there is such a thing as getting away from flying). I guess it was nothing more than a spruced up Champ too.

 

[Atticus]

My father had a '46 Champ when I was a kid. As is recall, it had the 65 hp Continental. We were flying it down the Outer Banks from Ocracoke to Beaufort, one day, when the engine swallowed a valve. The prop wind milled until the metal shards were evenly distributed throughout two or three cylinders…and then it froze dead still in the upright position. I am here to tell you...there is no silence quite like the silence you experience when your only airplane engine quits running before you want it to.

AF

 

[dmar836]

LOL. Pilots sweat a lot without that big fan blowing on them!

 

[sealbeachbum]

My father had a '46 Champ when I was a kid. As is recall, it had the 65 hp Continental. We were flying it down the Outer Banks from Ocracoke to Beaufort, one day, when the engine swallowed a valve. The prop wind milled until the metal shards were evenly distributed throughout two or three cylinders…and then it froze dead still in the upright position. I am here to tell you...there is no silence quite like the silence you experience when your only airplane engine quits running before you want it to.

AF

I know what you mean Geoff! It's happened to me twice! First time I was over Mission Bay (San Diego) at low altitude in a Cessna 206. I put it down on Fiesta Island. Second time was in my Ultralight flying over the Mojave Desert. Luckily I had a big dry lake bed to put it down on. Then there was the other two engine failures I had in multi engine aircraft... :shock: I guess that's what happens when you have 6000 hrs flying recips. It must be nice to fly jets!

 

[Andrew]

All credit to you guys who actually fly aircraft instead of just perving at them! Have to admit i'm a wannabe who likes flying jackets and hearing these types of tales.