We had an impromptu get together of many of the New Zealand Bearhawker "club" last weekend.
We had full representation of the Barrows line up, including owners of kits for the LSA, Patrol, and all the flying 4 places in NZ (only two of them!).
The fly-in started at Dannevirke aerodrome, and then moved to Otane at the future home airstrip of the first NZ BH LSA. It is a reasonably challenging spot, but not too bad in a Bearhawk. The strip is 600ft long with deer fences at each end, and power lines at the uphill end. There is a drain running through the middle, with a narrow bridge you have to land across, perhaps twice the width of the landing gear. Both times I landed there, I could easily have stopped before the bridge if I applied any brakes.
FHR is the newest addition to the airworthy Bearhawk fleet in NZ, and has about 36 hours on the Hobbs. A light spell of benchmarking suggests both are cruising at about the same speed, but we need to have a proper go at it. Both are running an IO-540 with a similar induction system and the same exhaust. FHR has a three-blade Hoffman wooden composite propeller.
Here are a couple of photos:
Forum member "Fellman" at Dannevirke aerodrome 20160306_105728.jpg
Here we are at Otane, although we are not at the challenging airstrip in this photo. 20160306_133135.jpg
We had full representation of the Barrows line up, including owners of kits for the LSA, Patrol, and all the flying 4 places in NZ (only two of them!).
The fly-in started at Dannevirke aerodrome, and then moved to Otane at the future home airstrip of the first NZ BH LSA. It is a reasonably challenging spot, but not too bad in a Bearhawk. The strip is 600ft long with deer fences at each end, and power lines at the uphill end. There is a drain running through the middle, with a narrow bridge you have to land across, perhaps twice the width of the landing gear. Both times I landed there, I could easily have stopped before the bridge if I applied any brakes.
FHR is the newest addition to the airworthy Bearhawk fleet in NZ, and has about 36 hours on the Hobbs. A light spell of benchmarking suggests both are cruising at about the same speed, but we need to have a proper go at it. Both are running an IO-540 with a similar induction system and the same exhaust. FHR has a three-blade Hoffman wooden composite propeller.
Here are a couple of photos:
Forum member "Fellman" at Dannevirke aerodrome 20160306_105728.jpg
Here we are at Otane, although we are not at the challenging airstrip in this photo. 20160306_133135.jpg
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