Verifying flap retraction

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:07:16 -0400, Cub Driver
wrote:

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 01:00:01 GMT, Roger Halstead
wrote:

The old Hershey Bar winged Cherokee 180s also used the Johnson bar.
It was the only plane where I could raise the flaps and actually
shorten the landing roll. The electric ones are just too slow.

I took Damien Del -- well, I took the Andover NJ "bush flying" course
last year. He taught this technique in the Aviat Husky. (Also flying
in ground effect over the corn stubble short of the threshold, then
dumping the flaps just as you reach the grass. Voila! 250-foot
landing!)

Couple years ago I took part in a spot landing contest. It was pretty
much a no rules type rather than you and only reduce throttle and add
flaps type of thing.

I thought I was doing pretty good touching down on the mains with
something like 21 or 22 inches to go. The a couple pilots flying a 172
both made 11 inches. Then the FBO, Terry Blodgett got out his old
V-35. He set the mains on the tape and cut it in two.

At any rate, where I was headed was Cherokees, Johnson bars, and short
fields. There was a Cherokee that came in with all seats full. I
think it was a Cherokee 6, but it's been a while. At any rate (think I
already said that), he was dragging it in and then dumped the flaps.
Thing is, he was a tad higher than he though. It sounded like someone
dropped a trash can on the runway. A big trash can:-)) All that and
he didn't come close to the 4 closest landings.

Those Cherokees are rugged! I've seen proofsnicker

I had a bleeding knuckle after a couple hours of this.

Just one?

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

all the best -- Dan Ford
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