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Still here Have been out of the country for a bit Trying to remember how things went so long ago BUT I have rerigged the stab to verify the full travel degrees and IIRC I reset the trim indictor to the correct position at 2 degree LE down on the stab. BUT I will have to verify that with a trim check maybe next week if I have time ( have house guests next week). Suffice to say mine flies hands off in smooth air for a minute or more without rolling up side down or diving for a smoking hole. 9500' WOT 2500 RPM it does 155 statute TAS Hasn't changed in many years from that.

@N201MKTurbo I got it open and will finish reading it this week Thanks!

It all depends on what the "asking" price is. Many planes languish on the market with unrealistic pricing especially inflated prices due to emotional attachment. Just look at how many are sitting rotting away on the ramps around the country and when contacted to buy the price is way beyond reason. Its no different than housing- priced right houses sell, priced unreasonable they sit on the market forever. I'm not planning on pricing so as to sit on the market for months trying to squeeze the last dime out of the transaction. Time is money and it takes money to "carry" the asset until sale- the longer you hold it the less you net. You reach a point of diminishing returns. Price it right and it will sell, get greedy and it will sit- costing you money. Simple formula.

I have arranged with Jimmy to handle the sale of my D model when I get ready to sell (NOT yet) and/or handle everything if my wife has to dump the airplane with me not there. Couldn't be happier with the arrangement.

I was based at HND for 10 years and flew in many types of windy weather - but not when big T storms were around . There's nothing really too tricky about HND if one uses their head. Gusty 30 kt crosswinds? No way. But most anything else is doable for a reasonable pilot. Therein lies the crux of the matter. Too much autopilot and too little hands on practice at 25 hrs a year? Like I said I've seen a 727 blown 180 degrees over wheel chocks and a Citation out on its tail by big T storms there. Reason must prevail or we lose another airframe to the junkyard dogs.

@N201MKTurbo Would like to read the attachment but it won't download for me

Who the h&ll would even remember the Hansa Jet but real old farts like us? BTW it had real old tech very heavy rotary inverters for AC power. Real old school.

Parts manual available on line here

The more you fly the more you amortize the cost of the annual!

That's why I offered the question as even though he was the preeminent test pilot I had cause to winder why IF it was impossible WHY did we have counter weights on the control surfaces? In my almost 70 years with airplanes I've never heard that theory of impossibility to flutter Anyone else want to chime in? Please!

So, he was referring to the ailerons and not the tail feathers- OK Would you be willing to expand and educate me on the subject or point me to information I can find on the subject? I am very interested to fully understand the concept.

I ran across some notes about Mooneys and one repeating something Bill Wheat (preeminent Mooney test pilot) said about flutter on Monneys. The note said- Wheat said flutter is not possible in an Mooney. He observed that the control surface hinge-lines are not 90-degrees to the longitudinal axis making flutter impossible I'm trying to get my head wrapped around this statement. I presume he was referring to the stabilizer/elevator and the rudder hinge lines as both "cant' forward from their inboard position and I can just visualize maybe what he was referring to but my "schooling " in aerodynamics wasn't as deep as this postulation goes. Can any aerodynamic engineer around here expound on this specific subject?

YUP Nice professional quality work Just the way it should be for a well trained disciplined pilot! Tip of the hat to you As noted check the field wires on the back of the alternator first.

WOW Didn't know it went that far back but when did roll cages come to the fore? I did know it was shine runners at first though.

I'm wondering how the spinner got squashed so bad square on. Head on with the ground? I'm willing to bet that on most of the fleet - if the repairs exceed $20-30K the airframe is totaled. Even with the elevated pricing we see now. As I've said for some time- we have a shrinking fleet size because we kill'm faster than we make'm and we aren't making them anymore. Its no wonder no one wants to market new electronics to our shrinking fleet of possible purchasers Add in the number of derelicts just sitting and rotting away on ramps all over the USA. Its really a shame but we do it to ourselves. Trying to support and antique (that can kill you) on a shoestring budget (CB) has never made sense to me. Enjoy them while you got them because they are going away eventually. There is/was a program by Mitsubishi to buy back old MU2s as they age out. That is why you don't see many of the 3 blade MU2s running around anymore. They want to get out of the MU2 business that they promised to support till the last one dies. They are just hurrying the last funeral. The world of GA aviation is changing. Steel tube, sheet metal and rivets are going away with the new generations of pilots looking to composite and parachutes. While we try to hang onto Model Ts they look forward to Ferraris. As an old TV program opened with- "As the world turns- so do the days of our lives!" Reality hits hard but we can enjoy them while we have them. BTW- I once saw a 727 spun 180 degrees in its parking spot and a Citation Jet pushed on its tail in one of those big wind events at KLAS.

I don't think NASCAR was around in 1953 Where they?

It might be that on Thursday Las Vegas had a large weather event (Huge down burst winds) so bad that 2 Allegiant Airlines Airbus airplanes diverted to here in St George UT. Looking at the wet ground - in the summer- in Las Vegas- leads me to wonder if the weather at that exact time was a probable cause.

As a long tie A&P and having come in behind many many "owner's maintenance" issues I am VERY dubious of "owners" doing their own maintenance. I had a recent experience though with one who wanted to change his own C model engine mount (paint it) and I agreed to "interview" him at his hangar. Much to my surprise he turned out to be as good as the best A&Ps I have ever worked with BUT bear in mind he was the exception to the rule. After his work, I found only 2 minor issues to address before I signed it off. Just my experience tells me most owners own evaluation of their abilities to do quality aircraft maintenance is way beyond their actual abilities. Having done hands on training at maintenance seminars and letting owners just safety wire two bolts AFTER showing them how to do it bares the reality of what I speak, I'm sure there are a few that can but not the majority by my experience.

Just as another point of reference from personal experience- I had the red fuzzy filter for a while and found that after a couple encounters with rain the "fuzzy" was washed off the outside of the screen and a light from behind showed BIG holes in the filtration. Went back to the Bracket. Take your red filter off sometime and try it. You'll find visible holes- many. Red filters in cars don't have the rain impact to deal with.

Be sure to check ALL the fuel line fittings in the area and not just the two on the pump. Have found some loose from years of vibration.

Ya I know it a long ways but "MUTTON" ? If in Texas its a real good stop with a crew car at the airport

GOOD! Please keep them coming

Interesting that a current thread is in this arena right now- Working on another multiday Mooney maintenance seminar (somewhere overseas :-) (May come to pass and may not.) and looking for your input as to what subjects "you" would like to see covered in the class room and in a hands on session in the hangar if YOU were to attend same. Just trying to see if my current iteration covers the majority of what Mooney owners would want to see. Pass along your ideas please. This is for airframe and engine subjects only We won't go into the multitude of electronic panel options out there.

MUTTON? Might as well eat old Billy Goat! The west was won on BEEF!!! Cooper's BBQ in Llano, TX :-)

Look in the Lycoming and the Mooney parts manual to see if you have all the correct baffle parts you need before you get too deep into spending money on chasing an issue that can be solved with the correct parts Verify what the book shows to what you have part by part.