Recent content by rollcloud2001

This plane is now for sale. It is hangared in Searcy, Arkansas. Contact Dardee Broadbent 501-250-3123 for more information.

Pretty sure I have a set of all of them from about 1985...I will take a look today. They are the leather bound ones...may have two sets...left over from when I was director of operations for Flight Services International.

A short bodied Mitsubishi is always fun....

I landed in Springhill Louisiana at night back in the 60s...uneventful landing...next day I discovered a road grader parked on the end of the runway...I had landed over it and never knew it was there....better to be lucky than smart I guess....

Just saw a news blurb that the stick shaker was activated and that the aircraft was still on autopilot...despite the Colgan operations manual requiring "hands on" operations in iceing conditions of the type it appears they encountered. Anyone else have any information on this?

I used to run some 100LL in my P model misubishi and in my Cheyenne to clean the black smudges off the cowls...worked great...Operations manual gives the limits on how many gallons etc....

To paraphrase, insurance is the opiate of the masses...it goes along with the current trend of suiing someone every time you suffer some loss, regardless of the actual cause of the damage...it is why all the aircraft and automobile manufacturers are broke....

Glad it wasn't all at night...It turned out to be an uneventful flight, but if, for instance, on the climb out or descent through the clouds you had picked up even a thin layer of ice on the windshield, with no hot-plate it would have been really tough to land, especially with a crosswind and...

"but it was night"....so you did the flight at night on top of everything else....all I can say is you are lucky....I would never have made the flight, but I guess that is why I have made it through 44 years as an ATP...I learned from Mason Camp, one of Lindberghs friends and fellow aviator not...

If they can still answer they didn't go.....

Another Siple bird: Bureau #: 33369 Construction #: 237-5378 Civil Registration: N1590V N159V N159U VH-SFF Model(s): PV-1 GR Mk. V Spartan Ventura Name: None Status: Stored Last info: 2002 History: Delivered to Royal Canadian AF as 2221. - BOC: July 17, 1943. - SOC: Aug. 11...

Note about Douglas Siple and aircraft and parts purchases: In 1970, the aircraft was purchase by a Canadian company headed by Doug Siple, a Trans Canada Airlines pilot. That company also bought the thousands of aircraft parts that had been stored in the bom shelters around the airport.

Testimony before Senator Kerry concenring the Moody-Siple ranch in Costa Rica: Mr. Siple. Well, I realize you're running late and I don't want to take up a lot of your time. But I think I should explain that I sort of inherited Mr. Hull from a very good and very old friend. It was a Mr. Hunter...

The Moody Brothers When Charles Lindbergh made his famous flight in 1927, Hunter Moody, the elder of two sons born to farmer Edward Moody and wife Ethel, of Dalton City, Illinois, became fascinated with flight. At the age of 14 he asked his father if he could take flying lessons. Hunter soloed...

As to being like a Rallye...not even close, except engine wise...Rallye has a high lift low speed wing, this has a very high speed wing.