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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
May 28, 2010
Description:
One of these two airplanes had an incident on landing: a flat tail wheel. It wasn’t the old airplane. Unfortunately it was the much younger one I was flying. The concrete chewed up the wheel, leading to an early afternoon shutdown for repairs.
Fortunately there was a friendly ground crew on duty at the little municipal airport late on a Saturday afternoon who offered their help. Unfortunately the tail wheel was damaged beyond any hope of filling.
The prospect of sitting in Thomaston, Georgia for the rest of the weekend waiting for a replacement tail wheel was not pleasant to contemplate. Fortunately there was a Maule tail wheel available on the field. Unfortunately it was off a wrecked Maule. Fortunately it fit. Unfortunately for my planned schedule, it took the remaining daylight to swap it out.
The long day of trekking northward met a pre-mature ending after only 5.7 hours en route (356 miles at 67 mph). Fortunately there was a courtesy car, a good restaurant, and a clean hotel waiting. That made for some good Post SeaRey Time (PoST).
Date Taken:
May 28, 2010
Place Taken:
Thomaston, GA
Owner:
Dan Nickens
File Name:
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Category:
420, Canadian Flight Time
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Daniel Paul Myers - May 28,2010
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Nice photo Dan. Judging by your trim, the plane is either nose heavy or you had a lot of baggage
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Dan Nickens - May 28,2010
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'Tis not so, Daniel. I always trim nose up on touchdown in case I need to go flying again.
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Eric Batterman - May 28,2010
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Yes our young apprentice, much baggage down trim would require.
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Daniel Paul Myers - May 28,2010
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not neccessarily.... From first hand experience, <br />I have flown solo in a certain plane that needed nearly full nose up...but thats not for this site. And eric...age is but a number...;-)
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Eric Batterman - May 29,2010
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Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying,<br />Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee -<br />Both were mine! Life went a-maying<br />With Nature, Hope, and Poesy,<br />When I was young!<br />When I was young? -Ah, woeful When!<br />Ah! for the change 'twixt Now and Then!<br />This breathing house not built with hands,<br />This body that does me grievous wrong,<br />O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands<br />How lightly then it flashed along,<br />Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore,<br />On winding lakes and rivers wide,<br />That ask no aid of sail or oar,<br />That fear no spite of wind or tide!<br />Nought cared this body for wind or weather<br />When Youth and I lived in't together.<br /><br />Youth and Age by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The rest is here:<br /><a href="http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blcoleridgeyouthandage.htm">http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blcoleridgeyouthandage.ht<br>m</a>
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