Gastons 2012 - Don't miss it

I probably wouldn't go so far as to smuggle the card out in a body cavity like some reporters around the world have done in lands non-friendly to reporters...
I don't know if you're aware, but the instructor of that Mexican girl who fell to her death from a tandem hang glider in Canada swallowed the SD card with the video of the accident. Mounties kept him under arrest and dug through his poop until they recovered the card. I don't know if the video was recovered, however.
 
I don't know if you're aware, but the instructor of that Mexican girl who fell to her death from a tandem hang glider in Canada swallowed the SD card with the video of the accident. Mounties kept him under arrest and dug through his poop until they recovered the card. I don't know if the video was recovered, however.

Chew!
 
I did some minor editing on one of the photos of Greg's airplane...

Ahem, Sharon's airplane...

Since it's so photogenic...

... to try to bring the lush green canopy it was parked under, out of the shadows in the original.

Just playing around... It ended up pushed too yellow, but that can also be fixed.

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Headed the right direction, or no-likey?
 
Oh and yeah, still have videos to upload. ;)

I actually took a real weekend off and the most difficult thing I did all weekend was move the hose around the front yard.
 
Geez, Kent - what's not to like? :D
 
Debonair, Arriving...
I thought it looked too fast and a bit floaty, but then I figured that it's how the soft field landing is supposed to look. Also, there was a bump?
 
I thought it looked too fast and a bit floaty, but then I figured that it's how the soft field landing is supposed to look. Also, there was a bump?

It's a long strip and there was other traffic in the pattern so I wasn't really trying to drop it in. Wanted to carry it a bit further and was carrying a bit more energy as a result. It is by no means a short strip, and touching down too early plants you into an airplane totaling surface as the terrain rises to the runway.

Sometimes the bumps there will catch you just right and put you back into the sky. You just kind of "ride" it out. I think the mains touched right on the start of a bump which is why I went back up a bit -- notice the nosewheel never touched. Either that or I just screwed up. Either way airplane wasn't done flying so I kept shedding energy until it was.

I do remember that landing -- and I remember looking over at Nate recording it. I remember the bit of a bounce but wasn't entirely sure why it happened -- didn't care, just fixed it. :)
 
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I was standing there. A bump kinda re-launched you. ;)

My first landing was way down there way before where you touched down out of respect for a new airport, unknown grass condition, power lines and trees at the far end, etc. Then I had to keep the speed with a lot of power to get to the parking at the far end on Thursday.

By the last landing after the STOL takeoff, I was flying down to only use about half the runway because it was relatively hard and bumpy and carrying power to taxi would just be throwing crap up with the prop into the tail and beating up my already weak nose strut.

The latter half of the runway is flatter with a couple of wider low spots until you get past the windsock, then a few short humps from there to the road that were helping launch the STOL takeoffs a bit.

When I went out and paced off the STOL takeoff I found a raised hump running along the runway just left of centerline up to just before the windsock that had less grass (from the mower whacking it off the little ridge) and more hard dirt. I lined up on that for less ground roll and no grass to plow through.

Being able to roll down to the parking area without adding (much) power was definitely goal on my two later landings. Brakes on finally right near the sock just to be mellow in the parking area.

In a year (or morning dew) where the grass was wetter and more slippery, you'd have to adjust accordingly.

You can see a lot of dirt kicked up on the takeoff video(s). It was dry.
 
Bah! I like it. Of course, I like yellow airplanes. :yes:

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I like yellow airplanes, too, including Greg's. The color correction he did to accentuate the yellow airplane made the grass and rest of the picture too yellow, in my opinion. My eye instantly knows it's not natural and was 'tweaked.'
 
Yeah, looking at that photo later on the big screen, it was awful. Looked like the Thai King had stopped in for a visit.
 
LOL!

Remember, Jesse said he could build a Hover Dog!
 
I thought it was "'Merica!". Heh.

Dang. I still haven't uploaded more stuff. Oh well, maybe I'll do it sometime before Christmas. :(
 
Reviving the thread... 'cause Mr. David White uploaded the STOL 182 takeoff for me...

Wheee...

 
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