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Shops like Sarasota specialize in selling and installing NEW equipment, not repairs. BTW, I know of Bob Bramble and he is good. If you can get to Ft. Lauderdale, this repair shop is excellent, honest, and reasonable. A combination not found that often. http://www.aeiavionicsinc.com/

Note that Sarasota has shops in Venice, Palm Beach (Lantana), and Sarasota.

Where can you get the best B-B-Q?

Quote: Cruiser perhaps you could sent Parker Woodruff (a memeber of this forum) a PM and get a qoute from him?

We've got a courtesy car for our pilot friends who stay with us and will offer a 10% discount to anyone who mentions "MooneySpace." Photo shows Orofino airport (S68) and the Clearwater River

3 cylinders WILL definately fly a Mooney! I was elected to fly a Commander 112 after some maintenance. The mechanic had not assembled the intake air box correctly and at 200 ft. after takeoff, an aluminum spacer was sucked through a brand new cylinder. It was about 3/8 inch dia when it started and was reduced to pcs by the valves. Along the way impacting the sparkplug electrodes bending them shut. After the initial shock and a scan of the gages I flew a VERY close pattern and landed without problem. Climbed about 700 ft altittude with 2 people and full fuel in one of the most underpowered 200 hp lycoming aircraft built. larry

Quote: allsmiles Are we overly paranoid?

Clearly crab or slip.....

Quote: 201er Ok, 20 out of 20 people vote that it's safe to move a Mooney by the prop 100%. Then why in another topic did it seem like there was a major disagreement about it and that opinions were all over the place?

Quote: Becca (We are willing to land our plane on a well-maintained long/wide grass or dirt strip. Hopefully we can avoid thread-creep on that topic.)

Barbie could not have posted the above! She's not BLOND! I hate when the riff raff turns to a great site! larry lmao!

Quote: jetdriven Think about it, a oil soaked sponge is not the best method to filter air.

Quote: JimR I thought about NASA's T-38s, too, Gary, but their stripes are blue and not green as Seth reported.

Quote: jetdriven Anything but the Brackett.

Sorry guys, but probably a NASA T-38 paid for by us. The aircraft are used by NASA Dryden's research pilots for proficiency and mission support flights. Dryden operated two T-38s for a number of years, replacing them with newer F-18s. Coming full-circle, the current cost of maintaining and operating the F-18s make the fuel-friendly, lower maintenance T-38 an attractive addition to Dryden's fleet, and they converted back in 2006. Formerly assigned to NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. for a number of years, the T-38's had supported various aeronautics research projects there. Believe it or not, at a 1995 Mooney fly-in in Asheville, we had a civilian fly a NASA T-38 in for a presentation. It was a two day event, he was alone, and I was really tempted to borrow the beauty for an hour. He rocketed out into a low overcast, just in front of me, while many of the Johnson bar guys stayed grounded.

Quote: 201er Or does the tire need to be changed? It's a Custom Flight III btw.

A guy at my airport had the factory talk him into changing his new 252 order for a new Porsche Mooney. He hated it the entire time he owned it. It was destroyed when the hurricane flattened PGD and Mod Works. Since he had cancelled his insurance, he sued Porsche and collected in full. My J was faster, burned less fuel, and had more useful load. Porsche knows cars....not planes.

Antique Air Aficionados Fly-In & Nostalgia Trip Saturday, February 18 10 a.m. to noon Everglades Airpark (X01) Everglades City, Florida Free Pancake Breakfast Chance to Win 5 lbs. of Stone Crab Claws Come by Air, Road, or Sea – Everyone Welcome! For info, phone Mike at (239) 695-2244 or (239) 784-1892

Seems once Mooney is no longer buying ad space, it's OK to slam them with half truths. For shame AOPA!

The George Lucas film, "Red Tails", about the Tuskegee Airmen, has now been released. This might be a good time to revisit the facts as stated a few years ago in this letter to the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) regarding erroneous facts in a published obituary. From: Bob Powell Date: July 3, 2008 This letter was not written for publication, but to enlighten you and you and your staff about some of the errors and misleading information you continue to publish, Perhaps it should be published to set your readers straight. As a WWII Historian and former 8th AF fighter pilot flying 87 missions over Europe during WWII, I am dedicated to factual reporting about the air war in Europe and aviation in general, and I take issue with the media (and not with just AJC) continuing to publish untrue and/or misleading statements about the Tuskegee Airmen (T/A). Although I have great respect for the pilots and achievements of this WWII Fighter Group, I do not appreciate the continuing repetition of myths and untruths about their military record, the latest example in the obit on Lt. Col Charles Dryden in today's paper, repeating the same errors which appeared in his obit story a few days ago. For more than 60 years the myth that they "never lost a bomber they were escorting to an enemy fighter", was their primary claim to fame! Then, several months ago, their Historian, William E. Holten, announced that his research proved that this was not true, that they had, indeed, lost some 25 bombers to enemy fighters. This myth still gets published occasionally, but far less frequently since he made this disclosure, thank goodness. Lies told often enough tend to become truths in the minds of many. However, it now seems to have been replaced by another false claim, i.e. that the Tuskegee Airmen flew more than 15,000 combat missions. ALSO NOT TRUE! Their own official records indicate that the T/A only flew 311 missions. Their so-called 15,000 "missions" were actually 15,000 "sorties.". Apparently, none of your reporters know the difference between a "mission" and a "sortie," so let me define these for you and them. Combat Mission is an assigned flight to accomplish a military objective. This can be flown by one pilot or a squadron or group of pilots flying together. It is recorded as one mission. Combat Sortie. When, for example, 48 or 64 pilots fly together on a combat mission it is recorded as 48 or 64 combat sorties. The T/A did not fly 15,000+ combat missions - as stated in your articles about the demise of Col. Charles Dryden. They flew 15,000+ "sorties". To have flown that many "missions" during the time they were in combat in the MTO, they would have had to fly about 25 missions a day everyday they were in combat. Do the math. That's one mission every hour, everyday they were in combat. Impossible! Weather alone would have prevented this, not to mention the problem of keeping all of their aircraft flyable everyday over that period of time. FACT: Their official records indicate they flew only 311 missions, a far cry from 15,000 claimed. Please advise your reporters of the difference between a mission and a sortie so that another T/A myth is not appearing in every mention this Fighter group. The Dryden story also stated that the 99th Squadron of the T/A was "the most successful squadron in American history." NOT SO! It would be more correct to say they have been the most publicized squadron in American history, however, thanks to a fully-paid public relations staff in Washington, D.C., the only such office of any military unit other than the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard.. Although I do not have complete combat statistics on all the fighter groups flying out of Africa and Italy (the MTO), I do have the stats on all of the 16 fighter groups flying in the Eighth Air Force over western Europe. And, when these records are compared, the Tuskegee Airmen rank at the bottom of the list despite the fact that they had four squadrons to only three for the 8th AF groups. FYI, and one of the reasons the T/A exploit their 15,000+ sorties (which they call missions) is that on a normal mission they would put up 64 fighters compared to only 48 for the 8th AF groups. And, since they did mostly ground support missions rather than bomber escort missions, the average length of their missions was about half that of the time in the air flown by the 8th AF fighters. Re the above mentioned stats, I would be delighted to provide these for your information if requested. Another gross error in your first story on Colonel Dryden is that the implication that he was, individually, awarded the Congressional Gold Medal recently. ALSO NOT TRUE. Through the efforts of the New York Senator, this medal was awarded to the Tuskegee Airmen, authorizing all Tuskegee Airman to receive this award. It was not awarded for individual achievements, as implied, but for the role played by the T/A in breaking the color ban for pilots, a civil rights accomplishment, not for their military achievements. Had this award been given for their military achievements alone, it should also have been awarded to each and every other fighter group in WWII whose records exceeded those of the Tuskegee Airmen. In my opinion, this was a "political award" instead of a military award. No other bomber or fighter units have been awarded this Medal, only Unit Citations. These are facts. Check them out, and here's to more factual reporting and a better AJC. Most sincerely, Robert H. Powell, Jr. Author/Editor/Historian/Pilot 352nd Fighter Group 1545 Rainier Falls Dr Atlanta, GA 30329 404-636-3747

I don't fly my Mooney as often as I would like, but I don't share it. Sort of like a spouse ;-)

Aanother tow bar simple fix is some duct tape around the insert tube.....no A&P sign off needed.

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I hate you, Don ;-)