flying to Burning Man

Ooh, interesting question. I'm also curious about this, what kind of
surface does the airport have? How long?

One thing, any plane parked on the Playa would need lots of protection
against the fine dust and high winds, I bet it could craze
plexi-screens pretty quickly.

"Ben Hallert" wrote in message
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One thing, any plane parked on the Playa would need lots of protection
against the fine dust and high winds, I bet it could craze
plexi-screens pretty quickly.

Yeah, no kidding. Parking my plane four days at Las Vegas, it wound up
covered in desert dirt, more dust than anything. That's a large, paved
airport. I can't imagine what it'd be like sitting actually out IN all that
dust.

A cockpit cover would help protect the windows, but a) dust will still find
its way underneath, and b) the rest of the plane will suffer regardless.

Maybe bring a really big roll of plastic, and just wrap up the whole plane
after you've parked? You could probably even make it an art project.

Pete

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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Maybe bring a really big roll of plastic, and just wrap up the whole plane
after you've parked? You could probably even make it an art project.

Pete
Except at Burning Man you'd be expected to light it!

Karl

"karl gruber" wrote in message
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Except at Burning Man you'd be expected to light it!

Nah...they have lots of stuff there that doesn't blow up. It's not
mandatory, just encouraged.

"karl gruber" wrote in message
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Except at Burning Man you'd be expected to light it!

I'm not sure anybody's burned and airplane there, at least in quite awhile.
Check this out, though. It's a giant 2-axis pendulum fire sculture that is
moved around with homemade pulse jets by remote control. He gets the
pendulum moving, balancing it in the air, etc, by firing off the jets.
Naturally, viewers tend to stay way back.


http://www.zaphodburns2005.org/ZB200...os/photo5.html

Peter Duniho wrote:

Maybe bring a really big roll of plastic, and just wrap up the whole plane
after you've parked?

Shrink wrap! G

"Ben Hallert" wrote in message
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Ooh, interesting question. I'm also curious about this, what kind of
surface does the airport have? How long?

It's very hard-packed dry clay...generally, flat as a pool table and about
as hard. Runway length is not a factor. It more or less stretches to the
horizon.

One thing, any plane parked on the Playa would need lots of protection
against the fine dust and high winds, I bet it could craze
plexi-screens pretty quickly.

There's a Burning Man aviator forum you would want to talk to about it, but
they know the tricks. There are planes there that fly daily year after
year.

Do not be swayed by the myth that everybody there are naked hippies on
drugs. (Hippies, as I like to tell people, don't drive around in jacked up
Road Warrior trucks shooting flamethrowers into the air.)

-c