Re: I flew the F-24 today

[Tom Downey]

'This morning was the day I was waiting for, calm clear no fog at
BVS, and the F-24 was ready.

I went to the airport at 0900 took the fairchild out of the hangar
did a good preflight, I had 60 gallons of 100LL and 4 gallons of oil
every thing was attached, and working.

I started it, did the engine checks and taxied out to the runway, I
thought I would take off 07, but we had just enough wind to make me
rethink that and back taxi 25 and take off down hill.

It flew great, after being totally apart and rebuilt the left wing
is a tiny bit heavy, and the rudder needs a tweek too. but all in
all it flew great.

AS soon as I got off and was climbing out I called the agent at
Kenmore 122.8 and asked him to call Barb and tell her I was airborn
and every thing was working great and was on my way to BVS for
landing practice, I had not flown the 24 for 7 years.

Whidbey approach gave me direct thru their airspace and the rest of
the trip was smooth as it could be. I did a few shallow angle of
bank turns and checked the stall speed (book says 45, and it quit
flying and dropped the nose at 45) after I got over the farm land in
the Skagit Valley near BVS.

Then announced the entry to the left down wind for 28 at Bayview.
and then turned the base turn and got it slowed to 80 MPH and
grabbed the first notch of speed brakes. retrimmed to 80 MPH. at
1200 RPM and turned final and made the best landing of the day.

The next 18 were not so pretty, but the Fairchild is still in one
piece, I would do 6 and stop for a rest and then do another 6 and
stop again, after I got 4 in a row that were nice I took off for
home and the 25 foot wide runway at OKH Oak Harbor. Whidbey once
again gave me direct so I would not have to stay out over the water
and that placed me over head the airport and checked the sock, which
favored 26 again so I set up for the down hill landing. and squeeked
it..

There will be videos at youtube when they finish loading..
search "Fairchildflyer" there are a few there taken before.

It was rather anticlimatic after all the preparations to do it.

20 landings and 4.0 in the book'

[Jack Threadgill]

'Congratulations!



Jack



Jack Threadgill

1602 Brook Hollow Dr

Bryan, TX 77802

979-779-7155

threadgl@suddenlink.net

-----Original Message-----
From: fairchildclub@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairchildclub@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Tom Downey
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 8:59 PM
To: fairchildclub@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [fairchildclub] I flew the F-24 today



This morning was the day I was waiting for, calm clear no fog at
BVS, and the F-24 was ready.

I went to the airport at 0900 took the fairchild out of the hangar
did a good preflight, I had 60 gallons of 100LL and 4 gallons of oil
every thing was attached, and working.

I started it, did the engine checks and taxied out to the runway, I
thought I would take off 07, but we had just enough wind to make me
rethink that and back taxi 25 and take off down hill.

It flew great, after being totally apart and rebuilt the left wing
is a tiny bit heavy, and the rudder needs a tweek too. but all in
all it flew great.

AS soon as I got off and was climbing out I called the agent at
Kenmore 122.8 and asked him to call Barb and tell her I was airborn
and every thing was working great and was on my way to BVS for
landing practice, I had not flown the 24 for 7 years.

Whidbey approach gave me direct thru their airspace and the rest of
the trip was smooth as it could be. I did a few shallow angle of
bank turns and checked the stall speed (book says 45, and it quit
flying and dropped the nose at 45) after I got over the farm land in
the Skagit Valley near BVS.

Then announced the entry to the left down wind for 28 at Bayview.
and then turned the base turn and got it slowed to 80 MPH and
grabbed the first notch of speed brakes. retrimmed to 80 MPH. at
1200 RPM and turned final and made the best landing of the day.

The next 18 were not so pretty, but the Fairchild is still in one
piece, I would do 6 and stop for a rest and then do another 6 and
stop again, after I got 4 in a row that were nice I took off for
home and the 25 foot wide runway at OKH Oak Harbor. Whidbey once
again gave me direct so I would not have to stay out over the water
and that placed me over head the airport and checked the sock, which
favored 26 again so I set up for the down hill landing. and squeeked
it..

There will be videos at youtube when they finish loading..
search "Fairchildflyer" there are a few there taken before.

It was rather anticlimatic after all the preparations to do it.

20 landings and 4.0 in the book





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[OldOOwl@aol.com]

'OUTSTANDING!!!

You give me a bright ray of hope! I'll be looking for that video too!
Congratulations Tom!!
Richard Hawley



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[james chybicki]

'Congradulations TOM!
another airworthy Fairchild brings smiles to allot of people!
post some pictures!
Jim Chybicki
UC-61K

--- On Sun, 9/7/08, Tom Downey wrote:

From: Tom Downey
Subject: [fairchildclub] I flew the F-24 today
To: fairchildclub@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, September 7, 2008, 9:59 PM






This morning was the day I was waiting for, calm clear no fog at
BVS, and the F-24 was ready.

I went to the airport at 0900 took the fairchild out of the hangar
did a good preflight, I had 60 gallons of 100LL and 4 gallons of oil
every thing was attached, and working.

I started it, did the engine checks and taxied out to the runway, I
thought I would take off 07, but we had just enough wind to make me
rethink that and back taxi 25 and take off down hill.

It flew great, after being totally apart and rebuilt the left wing
is a tiny bit heavy, and the rudder needs a tweek too. but all in
all it flew great.

AS soon as I got off and was climbing out I called the agent at
Kenmore 122.8 and asked him to call Barb and tell her I was airborn
and every thing was working great and was on my way to BVS for
landing practice, I had not flown the 24 for 7 years.

Whidbey approach gave me direct thru their airspace and the rest of
the trip was smooth as it could be. I did a few shallow angle of
bank turns and checked the stall speed (book says 45, and it quit
flying and dropped the nose at 45) after I got over the farm land in
the Skagit Valley near BVS.

Then announced the entry to the left down wind for 28 at Bayview.
and then turned the base turn and got it slowed to 80 MPH and
grabbed the first notch of speed brakes. retrimmed to 80 MPH. at
1200 RPM and turned final and made the best landing of the day.

The next 18 were not so pretty, but the Fairchild is still in one
piece, I would do 6 and stop for a rest and then do another 6 and
stop again, after I got 4 in a row that were nice I took off for
home and the 25 foot wide runway at OKH Oak Harbor. Whidbey once
again gave me direct so I would not have to stay out over the water
and that placed me over head the airport and checked the sock, which
favored 26 again so I set up for the down hill landing. and squeeked
it..

There will be videos at youtube when they finish loading..
search "Fairchildflyer" there are a few there taken before.

It was rather anticlimatic after all the preparations to do it.

20 landings and 4.0 in the book


















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'

[Curt Kinchen]

'Very cool. We'll see you around the patch. Moving the PT-26 from
RNT to PAE this weekend.

Curt Kinchen

ptcurt@msn.com




To: fairchildclub@yahoogroups.com
From: tom-barb@whidbey.net
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 02:59:25 +0000
Subject: [fairchildclub] I flew the F-24 today




















This morning was the day I was waiting for, calm clear no fog at

BVS, and the F-24 was ready.



I went to the airport at 0900 took the fairchild out of the hangar

did a good preflight, I had 60 gallons of 100LL and 4 gallons of oil

every thing was attached, and working.



I started it, did the engine checks and taxied out to the runway, I

thought I would take off 07, but we had just enough wind to make me

rethink that and back taxi 25 and take off down hill.



It flew great, after being totally apart and rebuilt the left wing

is a tiny bit heavy, and the rudder needs a tweek too. but all in

all it flew great.



AS soon as I got off and was climbing out I called the agent at

Kenmore 122.8 and asked him to call Barb and tell her I was airborn

and every thing was working great and was on my way to BVS for

landing practice, I had not flown the 24 for 7 years.



Whidbey approach gave me direct thru their airspace and the rest of

the trip was smooth as it could be. I did a few shallow angle of

bank turns and checked the stall speed (book says 45, and it quit

flying and dropped the nose at 45) after I got over the farm land in

the Skagit Valley near BVS.



Then announced the entry to the left down wind for 28 at Bayview.

and then turned the base turn and got it slowed to 80 MPH and

grabbed the first notch of speed brakes. retrimmed to 80 MPH. at

1200 RPM and turned final and made the best landing of the day.



The next 18 were not so pretty, but the Fairchild is still in one

piece, I would do 6 and stop for a rest and then do another 6 and

stop again, after I got 4 in a row that were nice I took off for

home and the 25 foot wide runway at OKH Oak Harbor. Whidbey once

again gave me direct so I would not have to stay out over the water

and that placed me over head the airport and checked the sock, which

favored 26 again so I set up for the down hill landing. and squeeked

it..



There will be videos at youtube when they finish loading..

search "Fairchildflyer" there are a few there taken before.



It was rather anticlimatic after all the preparations to do it.



20 landings and 4.0 in the book

























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[Tom Downey]

'I might be there if Ya like, Providing good weather and low winds

What time are you doing the move?

OBTW

The first video is posted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31HcxXbY62g

It's a slow up load process..

"The Landing" is loading now

I tried to post the whole 27 minutes of the flight but it was too
big..

I had to cut the video in to 2 parts and edit a bunch of the trip
out..

> Very cool. We'll see you around the patch. Moving the PT-26 from
> RNT to PAE this weekend.
>
> Curt Kinchen

'

[steven whelan]

'Did you do any wheel landings or all 3-point?
 
Steve Whelan

--- On Mon, 9/8/08, Tom Downey wrote:

From: Tom Downey
Subject: [fairchildclub] Re: I flew the F-24 today
To: fairchildclub@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 4:28 PM







I might be there if Ya like, Providing good weather and low winds

What time are you doing the move?

OBTW

The first video is posted.

http://www.youtube com/watch? v=31HcxXbY62g

It's a slow up load process..

"The Landing" is loading now

I tried to post the whole 27 minutes of the flight but it was too
big..

I had to cut the video in to 2 parts and edit a bunch of the trip
out..

> Very cool. We'll see you around the patch. Moving the PT-26 from
> RNT to PAE this weekend.
>
> Curt Kinchen


















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'

[Tom Downey]

'I have done both, about 50/50 in this aircraft.

On the first flight I made 20 landings. I thought 2 were really nice..

> Did you do any wheel landings or all 3-point?
>  
> Steve Whelan

'

[ROBERT COON]

'Congratulations and well done!  Can't wait to do that with HB-690.  We're still about a year out on the 7 year process of ground up.  The UC-61K will never have looked so good.  Thanks for the update. 
 
Regards
Bob
HB-690, UC-61K

--- On Mon, 9/8/08, Curt Kinchen wrote:

From: Curt Kinchen
Subject: RE: [fairchildclub] I flew the F-24 today
To: fairchildclub@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 4:04 PM






Very cool. We'll see you around the patch. Moving the PT-26 from
RNT to PAE this weekend.

Curt Kinchen

ptcurt@msn.com

To: fairchildclub@ yahoogroups. com
From: tom-barb@whidbey. net
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 02:59:25 +0000
Subject: [fairchildclub] I flew the F-24 today

This morning was the day I was waiting for, calm clear no fog at

BVS, and the F-24 was ready.

I went to the airport at 0900 took the fairchild out of the hangar

did a good preflight, I had 60 gallons of 100LL and 4 gallons of oil

every thing was attached, and working.

I started it, did the engine checks and taxied out to the runway, I

thought I would take off 07, but we had just enough wind to make me

rethink that and back taxi 25 and take off down hill.

It flew great, after being totally apart and rebuilt the left wing

is a tiny bit heavy, and the rudder needs a tweek too. but all in

all it flew great.

AS soon as I got off and was climbing out I called the agent at

Kenmore 122.8 and asked him to call Barb and tell her I was airborn

and every thing was working great and was on my way to BVS for

landing practice, I had not flown the 24 for 7 years.

Whidbey approach gave me direct thru their airspace and the rest of

the trip was smooth as it could be. I did a few shallow angle of

bank turns and checked the stall speed (book says 45, and it quit

flying and dropped the nose at 45) after I got over the farm land in

the Skagit Valley near BVS.

Then announced the entry to the left down wind for 28 at Bayview.

and then turned the base turn and got it slowed to 80 MPH and

grabbed the first notch of speed brakes. retrimmed to 80 MPH. at

1200 RPM and turned final and made the best landing of the day.

The next 18 were not so pretty, but the Fairchild is still in one

piece, I would do 6 and stop for a rest and then do another 6 and

stop again, after I got 4 in a row that were nice I took off for

home and the 25 foot wide runway at OKH Oak Harbor. Whidbey once

again gave me direct so I would not have to stay out over the water

and that placed me over head the airport and checked the sock, which

favored 26 again so I set up for the down hill landing. and squeeked

it..

There will be videos at youtube when they finish loading..

search "Fairchildflyer" there are a few there taken before.

It was rather anticlimatic after all the preparations to do it.

20 landings and 4.0 in the book














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