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   StanFoster | Apr 03, 2005 12:10am | #1

   More clouds.....it sure is a different world up there.

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   MikeSmith | Apr 03, 2005 01:57am | #2

   stan.. you're about 40 miles from Ivesdale.....Crinigans are my cousins..

   Ellen Phalen was my great-Aunt

   one of these summers i'll make it out to the Phalen family reunion.. last time we made it was probably 2000

   Paxton looks like most of it's growth is new  the way those subdivisions are laid outMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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   donpapenburg | Apr 03, 2005 03:12am | #3

   Sure was nice  today .

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   Bluegillman | Apr 03, 2005 06:26am | #4

   Wonder if you are limited to how high you can go?

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   StanFoster | Apr 03, 2005 06:28am | #5

   Blue:    10,000 ft is the service ceiling.  They just dont climb well near 10000 ft.

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   Bluegillman | Apr 03, 2005 07:49am | #6

   From those photos it seems awful high already for that little toy! How does it make you feel looking down? What's the feeling like in that little one, as if you were going to walk a tight wire across the buildings on Sears tower to John Hancock while you are so high?

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   StanFoster | Apr 03, 2005 01:22pm | #7

   Blue:   It doesnt feel weird at all up there.  In fact it was glass smooth.  

    

   Now the gyrocopter I used to fly was an open cockpit.  You literally were strapped into a lawn chair with nothing around you for reference.  When I would go to altitude in that...it would make me feel queezy.   But inside this cabin...you have  a frame of reference and it feels comfortable.

   I almost shut the engine down and made a long unpowered descent to the runway....but maybe next time.

    

    

    

   Stan

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   Bluegillman | Apr 04, 2005 04:55am | #8

   "I almost shut the engine down and made a long unpowered descent to the runway....but maybe next time."

   Stan,

   Are u really gonna try that? At what height are you gonna do it? With the engine off, does the blades still spin from the wind coming from bottom to top keeps it turning the right way? Kinda scary! What makes you wanta try that?? (Maybe I should lock you back in the shop!!!)

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   StanFoster | Apr 04, 2005 05:43am | #9

   Blue:   If  I cant shut the engine off...I have no business flying.

   Its just routine to do dead stick landings.

   I have had 18 real engine outs since 1985 and not a scratch to me or the machine. 

   The rotor is not powered....I will take 50 engine outs in a gyrocopter to one in an airplane. 

    

   Stan

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   Bluegillman | Apr 04, 2005 05:53am | #10

   Pretty confusing...I gota see you doing that "trick" if you were ever around up north around Tinley Park.

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   JohnT8 | Apr 05, 2005 12:17am | #11

   E is my 1/57....and my home airport

   Ummm... I don't see picture "E".

   jt8

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