Small airports

[FenderManDan]

This is why i like them. You get to see stuff like this.

[iflyforpie]

The poor man's L-39... the L-29.

You can get those for quite cheap.... about the same price as an older Cessna 172.

[bizjets101]

Click Here meet the owner.

[Beefitarian]

.... about the same price as an older Cessna 172.

A wee bit more expensive to operate.

[iflyforpie]

Yeah.... 1200 pounds per hour of fuel vs 50pph kind of puts a damper on things.

[willow burner]

Makes way more noise though....

[Beefitarian]

Might be faster too.

[Colonel Sanders]

L39 at idle burns 70 gallons per hour, according
to the totalizer. 330 gallons per hour at 106%
N1 when you push the lever on the left all the
way forward.

[mcrit]

Does it have aluminum wire?

[Colonel Sanders]

No, but it's full of parts from Spruce. I put
a big order in recently, because I heard that
TC is going to raid it and shut that horrible
source of "bogus parts" down.

[iflyforpie]

Need an AME to maintain it for you?

[Colonel Sanders]

No, thanks anyways, when we have any problems
with them, we call a local small engine repair guy
called "Boris" who has these weird metric wrenches,
a large hammer and a scuba tank in a small trailer
behind his rusty pickup truck.

I haven't a clue what all that technical stuff is for,
but he keeps them airworthy. His appearance is
a bit off-putting - wife-beater shirt (even in the winter),
bald and lots of arm and back hair - but he really
knows his stuff.

[FenderManDan]

L39 at idle burns 70 gallons per hour, according
to the totalizer. 330 gallons per hour at 106%
N1 when you push the lever on the left all the
way forward.

Ahh the girls are out on the sun. Col, they look much better once outside

[FenderManDan]

No, thanks anyways, when we have any problems
with them, we call a local small engine repair guy
"Boris" ....His appearance is
a bit off-putting - wife-beater shirt (even in the winter),
bald and lots of arm and back hair - but he really
knows his stuff.

I knew this Croatian guy like that that did wonders with my VW jetta back in a day.

[dashx]

I think you're thinking of Ed Asner.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... n_1976.JPG

Nobody wore a wife beater like Ed did.

[dahspeers]

Assuming you were in Brantford last week? I seen it there too, watched it take off. I was at Brant Aero getting some radio work done.

[bmc]

L39 at idle burns 70 gallons per hour, according
to the totalizer. 330 gallons per hour at 106%
N1 when you push the lever on the left all the
way forward.

Such elegant airplanes. Black is such a great colour for that airplane.