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And now it’s summer. Late last week we observed some frost on
vegetation in the ditches, early in the morning. Then, over the weekend, we
went from having to shoot some primer fuel into the airplane’s engine to pulling
open the ventilators. At the same, there was a wind shear forecast, calling for
40 knots out of the southwest at 2000 feet altitude.
The major visitor observed this week was a sleek TBM 850 executive
turboprop, stopping through on Wednesday. Also in were a Cessna 172, a Piper
Cherokee Archer, a Cherokee 140 and a Beech Baron 58. Mike Golden was down from
New Century in his Cessna T210 Centurion. Out of the local fleet, Roy Conley
flew his Grumman Tr2, the resident AirTractor agplane made some swaths, and
some unwanted passengers were evicted from Christian Tucker’s 1947 Cessna 140.
That was a clutch of five starling eggs, found in a nest inside the engine
cowling.
SkyDive KC manager Erin Hupp says the drop zone will be opening
for preliminary jumps on April the 27th, just some training and
procedure familiarization. She plans on having a turbine-converted Cessna
Stationair to haul six jumpers at a time. Tandem arrivals only cost $259, plus
video if desired.
Remember that Harrisonville airport is closed for runway
reconstruction, and you should check on Nevada airport’s status before you plan
on landing there, as they are rebuilding the 13/31 runway. And there’s no fuel
available at Pleasanton. Fortunately, Chris Hall just brought in a fresh load
of avgas here.
Not much big news coming out of the Sun ‘N Fun fly-in last week,
other than a flooding rainstorm that went through there Wednesday. Piper rolled
out its new Fury M700 turboprop, Cessna showed a revived Turbo Skylane with new
cabin amenities, which hadn’t been offered since 2013, Daher spruced up the
interior of its TBM 960 and Piper agreed to test the new DeltaHawk diesel
engines in its Seminole twin trainer, to compete with Diamond’s DA42. Hartzell
Propeller bought Whirlwind Propeller Co., broadening its coverage of the
experimental market.
Our weekly question, posed
by Rodney Rom, wanted to know “what kind of airplane is on the wall mural in
the Jo 'N Go coffee shop at St. Luke's hospital?” The correct answer was
“Douglas DC-3.” For extra points, can anyone tell us precisely how the throttle
knobs were arranged on the DC-3’s power quadrant, and why. You can send your
answers to [email protected].
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