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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Jun 17, 2007
Description: First flight for C-FEUD as John Dunlop waves by mid field.
914t, B hull, 1 year to build and 4 years to argue (FEUD) with Transport Canada and 2 TC employee sanctioned ( TC inspectors in shit)... it’s in the air.
All I can say is Ahhhhhhhhhhh that’s better.
Date Taken: Jun 17, 2007
Place Taken: Brampton Flying Club
Owner: Frank N.
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John Robert Dunlop - Jun 17,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Congrats Frank! It was a real pleasure..     
  
Dave Lima - Jun 17,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Good job Frank, nice to see it in the air!     
  
Don Maxwell - Jun 17,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Good for you, Frank! It's about time the bureaucrats got their comeuppance and you got that airplane into the air!     
  
Dan Nickens - Jun 17,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    You deserve to have some fun now, Frank. Go for it!     
  
Frank Noordhuis - Jun 17,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    U bet Dan, still need to fly off the hours. My buddy at TC will be taking early retirement I hear. Rumor is his contract is not going to be renewed after this summer, I smile. <br /><br />Thanks guys!     
  
Prior James - Jun 26,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Frank,<br /><br /> The aircraft looks great, have fun!     
  
Lee Coulman - Jun 17,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Great news Frank !<br />Hope to you soon. You know that my field is exactly 25 nm from Brampton, and just 7.5nm beyond Belwood Lake ?<br />N43&#176;45'48.27' W080&#176;29'10.02' or so. West side of Hwy 6. 05/23 2300ft 1500~MSL<br />Oh. I won't be there next week as the rest of us will hopefully be at Silver Lake.     
  
Dennis Vogan - Jun 17,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Wow! Never seen the bottom before! Just the sides and top. Looks great in that view.<br /><br />Congrats Frank. A great day and worth the wait.<br /><br />Now, the next step.....     
  
Dave Edward - Jun 18,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    At long last! Congratulations Frank....hope you have a good fly-in this week. Sorry I can't join you folks but Larry Woods will explain. He was here..with the A-24.. at our annual Father's Day Fly-in Bkfst yesterday...along with 50 other a/c.     
  
Mark Alan MacKinnon - Jun 18,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Congrats Frank, it looks great.     
  
Larry Woods - Jun 18,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Hi Frank:<br /><br />Congratulations. <br /><br />Having 'enjoyed' my own 'dance' with the boys at TC, I sure can empathize. <br /><br /> Hope to see you up at Silver Lake a day or two from now. I had planned on collecting John Dunlop and heading up today but am still'AOG' due to an ignition problem. This past weekend, I flew down to Picton, to enjoy a wonderful fly-in breakfast and to take Dave Edwards up for a flight. Alas, things didn't work out as planned. No problems landing at Dave's place, but once I had him on board, I simply couldn't get the bird off the water! I would love to be able to blame Dave for this but I had to admit to him that I had taken a slightly heavier (255 pounds) friend up a few days previously so I couldn't blame Dave's weight (sigh). At first, I thought I had collected a bunch of water weed on the rudder and that this was slowing us down. Not. Shortly thereafter, I noted that the engine was delivering much reduced RPMs at full throttle..... no wonder we were not getting airborne. Still, good things come from even disappointing events.... I managed to pursuade Dave to swim for shore so I wouldn't 'de-weed' his nifty cove. (g)<br /><br />With reduced weight I then managed to get airborne and limped over to a nearby airport. A few minutes later, the problem was discovered.... one of the Rotax electronic modules was acting up and was not providing a spark to the aft cylinders. I jury rigged a repair and flew home. Today, I am chasing down new Rotax connecting plugs and associated bits. Hopefully, I will be airborne and heading north on Wednesday or Thursday.<br /><br />Best,<br />Larry     
  
Fred Glasbergen - Jun 19,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Great to see you passed all the hurdles and you got your airplane in the air. Just keep those TC bureaucrats in line.     
  
Kevin D'Angelo - Jun 19,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    CONGRATULATIONS FRANK<br />YOUR BIRD LOOKS LIKE IT IS DYING TO FLY- HOPE TO SEE YOU AND IT THIS SUMMER     
  
Kenneth Leonard - Jun 24,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    A big congratulations Frank! Now we need an admin who is still in the building process! 'Cause we aren't any more. Yipee!     
  
Frank Noordhuis - Jun 25,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    I'm building another SeaRey right now Ken, not stopped..... yet..     
  
Bruno Grondin - Jun 25,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    HU now I know how we feel..... I made my first flight too yesterday... I'll send a small movie.... congat...Frank...     
  
Frank A. Carr - Jun 26,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Congratulations Frank on First Flight! Ahhhhggg...a year to build....I guess it helps to know what you're doing. Looks terrific. Ah, whats with the water rudder, I thought everyone was removing them?     
  
Frank Noordhuis - Jun 26,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    The rudder going Frank, just installed it according to instructions in the PA manual.<br />At the Northern gaggle I saw how this rudder could and would dig into the beach sand and could stress stuff, it's not needed for it actual functionality but might look good in some eyes.<br /><br />The MDRA inspection people would see a stock build SeaRey.<br />With all the problems I've had with Transport Canada over the last 4 years trying to get it in the air I was not going to deviate to much from out of the box stock aircraft and gross weight.<br /><br />If I could write as good as Dan, follow the comic edge aviation writings of Garth Wallace my story might make amusing reading. The one bigger lesson I learned during the C-FEUD process is never trust the government and Canadian aviation authorities because internally these organizations are run by the Old boys club.<br />They are like getting Niagara falls to run backwards..LoL<br /><br />Sorry..less than a year... but you can't have a real Job and build at the same time to do it.<br /><br />     
  
Bruno Grondin - Jun 26,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Frank fUlicitation.... I know what you are talking about because I just receaved my flying agreement from Transport Canada for my C-FNIA and ouf what a full time job.....<br /><br />Very nice hand wave you got oups yes sorry J.D 's........hahahaha<br /><br />Bruno     
  
Frank Noordhuis - Jun 26,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    You mean JD's wave.     


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