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Ben_Chiu Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 8. "RE: Rally 17 notes" 12-21-03, 20:37z  Season's Greetings! > Do you know if and/or when they plan to fly the replica Wright Flyer > since it was not successful on the 17th? I don't know. I think I recall Robert saying something at a chat that they're going to pack it up and make another attempt some time in the future. > Sorry I missed the Rally on Sunday. I had a relapse of the flu on the > day of the Rally and did not do any flying. By Wednesday the 17th I was > feeling better and managed to at least fling a Spitfire around the sky > for a while on the 100th Anniversary of Powered Flight. Glad to you hear you're making a recovery. The flu this year seems to be particularly nasty. > How did the Rally go and who managed to set the Distance record in the > Wright Flyer? Would love to hear more about how it went. We were leap frogging each other with longer distances, but in the I think I set the record of just about 1 nautical mile. It turns out the fuel quantity in the flight that MS uses is only about 85% full. So after adjusting fuel to 100% and learning to keep very low (under 15' altitude--use shift z for a readout), we were flying further than ever. Looking back at it, instead of flying directly into the headwind, it occurs to me that if you flew on a tangent, you'd be able to cover a longer distance because the headwind wouldn't be causing your groundspeed to be so low. Perhaps one day we'll revisit this Rally to see if we can top our records. > My Spitfire Home airport is changing, not because PL965 is going > anywhere, but because Burbank Airport was renamed Bob Hope Airport on > Dec 17th. I am going to write to the Airport Authority and ask them if > they are going to change the Airport code from KBUR to KBOB. Looked up > KBOB in FS2004 and it looks like it is not yet spoken for. That's funny! Keep us posted. Merry Christmas! Ben -= VPC OffLine Reader 2.1 =- Registered to: Ben Chiu -OLR.PL v1.83- Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Rally 17 notes    Ben_Chiu       12-14-03              RE: Rally 17 notes    RobertVA       12-15-03       1            RE: Rally 17 notes    Ben_Chiu       12-17-03       2         RE: Rally 17 notes    RobertVA       12-17-03       3            RE: Rally 17 notes    RobertVA       12-17-03       5         RE: Rally 17 notes    RobertVA       12-17-03       4            RE: Rally 17 notes    Ben_Chiu       12-18-03       6                 RE: Rally 17 notes    PL965Melo       12-20-03       7                      RE: Rally 17 notes    Ben_Chiu       12-21-03       8                           RE: Rally 17 notes    PL965Melo       12-29-03       9                                RE: Rally 17 notes    Ben_Chiu       12-29-03       10

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