Cranked up the gyrokapopter…(good one Piffin..) and took some shots of Illiniois. She sure is changing fast. We are having 80 degree weather righ now. I figure it will be 7 months before its that warm again.. Picture number 41 is the woods where my stairshop is in.
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Well Stan one things for certain, you don't have to worry about a place to land.
Nice shots.
ever scare the crap of any golfers getting a little lower in shot 43?
Stan
Your pictures of the aerial shots are almost as enjoyable as the stair shots.
By the way, is there a hill within 250 miles of you? I'm originally from Iowa and I always here how flat it is.
Doug
Doug: I am in flat country......once you are above the trees..you can see twenty miles....at 500 feet you can see 50 miles.
"By the way, is there a hill within 250 miles of you?"
I don't live TOO far from Stan, so I thought I'd throw my 2 cent's worth in on that one.
Illinois varies a lot from one place to the next. If you go north from my hometown, it's flat as a board seemingly forever. But go south and you immediately drop off into a large creek system. There's ain't hardly enough flat ground to build a house on. The fields are all little points and patches cut in around the creeks and hills.
Get close to the major river systems in the west part of the state, and there are some beautiful bluffs. Down south in the Shawne National forest there are hills and hollers of all kinds. Bumpersticker: Prevent death on the road. Drive on the sidewalk
.....and as a native born a few mi NE of Ron (Spfld/Cantrall), IL's highest spot is Cahokia, an indian burial mound!!!
When I was a kid I thought there were some hills, but as older found out they were just bumps in the gullies near the rivers or exposed boulders in the gullies!.
Stan: I am now crapless. You scared it all out of me with the first word - "Cranked." In the type face & size of this stupid box of sand it looked like "Cracked." I figured the series of photos would be of your legs in traction in a hospital bed.
Coupla questions. How fast do you land? How much roll does it take to stop? How stable is it for two hands on the camera (and none on the controls)? Does it have brakes or do you just drag your feet?
Don
Don: It lands 5 mph or less if done right and rolls just a few feet. If real windy..it can land and take off vertically. The brakes are hydraulic. I can let go of the controls but usually keep one hand on the cyclic while shooting pictures. That way if I dont like whats in the viewfinder...such as a big tree....I can immediately move the cyclic so as to get the big tree out of the viewfinder. :)
Bob: You are very observant on that gauge. Actually..it is my rotor tach and the wire just broke. I am fixing it..but really there is nothing I can do for the rotor speed as it is self governing and is not powered at all by the engine.
OK so where is the fuel gage? That would be the biggest gage on my dash. Always nice to know if you have enough to get back home :-)
Great pictures Stan, thanks for sharing."Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Bob
Bob: Here is my fuel gauge. Its that clear tube going up the side of my seat....yes...my seat is the fuel tank. I go mainly by timing my fuel burn. I have resettable clocks that are part of the preflight. I have never run out of fuel. You must always have 1/2 hour reserve in your tank. This is a long download..
How high can that thing go
Stan, I hope that upper right hand gauge isn't your fuel gauge cause if it is you better land Quick!
You need to put that thing on a truck and bring it over here to Washington so you can fly between mountains and show everyone how pretty it is here.
Now I know how the car manufacturers there get those ridiculous estimated MPG ratings, there's no hills.
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Bob