Yesterday, we had 3 Bearhawks flying out of the Boyd Ranch, 20 miles East of Elko Nevada. Thanks to Andy and Russ Boyd for sharing their ranch with Kevin Cox and myself. We had a ball.
Yesterday was warm, about mid 80'sF, humid, and a mile high. Elko's ASOS reported density altitude of 7,700 feet and the ranch is 200 feet higher so DA there was about 7,900 feet.
All three planes are O-540 powered, Kevin's (red/silver) 8:50x6" main tires, and mine (white//blue, 35x10 bushwheels) both had 30 gallons on board when we started. Boyd's plane (red/white) had full tanks (50 gallons, 31x6 bushwheels). The meadow grass stubble is about 4 to 6-inches deep, the "runway" is a recently cut hay meadow so has some definite humps and bumps, but at least we weren't dodging cowpies!
I realize that unless you are addicted to airplanes, and in particular Bearhawk's, these videos my be like watching paint dry, but I know most on here will appreciate watching them. Keep in mind we just did this for fun, there was no measuring of distances, etc. Nor was the time taken for fancy editing, etc; just flying so keep you r expectations low in that regard and you won't be disappointed. I don't look at the airspeed indicator when landing so I don't know what speed I touch down at; short approach (over the house) was 60 mph the one time I looked. Lift off was in the high 30's to 40 mph the few times I looked.
Looks like this post will only accept one link at a time so I'll make multiple posts.
Enjoy,
Mike
Yesterday was warm, about mid 80'sF, humid, and a mile high. Elko's ASOS reported density altitude of 7,700 feet and the ranch is 200 feet higher so DA there was about 7,900 feet.
All three planes are O-540 powered, Kevin's (red/silver) 8:50x6" main tires, and mine (white//blue, 35x10 bushwheels) both had 30 gallons on board when we started. Boyd's plane (red/white) had full tanks (50 gallons, 31x6 bushwheels). The meadow grass stubble is about 4 to 6-inches deep, the "runway" is a recently cut hay meadow so has some definite humps and bumps, but at least we weren't dodging cowpies!
I realize that unless you are addicted to airplanes, and in particular Bearhawk's, these videos my be like watching paint dry, but I know most on here will appreciate watching them. Keep in mind we just did this for fun, there was no measuring of distances, etc. Nor was the time taken for fancy editing, etc; just flying so keep you r expectations low in that regard and you won't be disappointed. I don't look at the airspeed indicator when landing so I don't know what speed I touch down at; short approach (over the house) was 60 mph the one time I looked. Lift off was in the high 30's to 40 mph the few times I looked.
Looks like this post will only accept one link at a time so I'll make multiple posts.
Enjoy,
Mike
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