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No these guys would have been better served with a Toyota Sienna.

Who is max?

Real and modern winglets could increase effective wing span, and beef up the landing gear a bit more....

Or a 152 and a whole trailer park in Oklahoma. Or a vespa and a parking place in a parking structure Manhattan.

I'm putting my bets at 1100-1200 lbs of people.

Very lucky to be alive. They would have been even luckier if what I guessed would have happened did happen which is the gear would go ahead and collapse under that weight before it ever got off the ground.

Meh... I’m holding out for the tbm950.

I have wondered about the same thing. One can get 99% quality at a good paint shop. In the world of buying chemicals, 99%, 99.9%, 99.99%, etc ever more pure may be available and needed for some applications where impurity could be critical for the application, but on the other hand as the quality improves logarithmically, generally the price increases exponentially. So how good is good enough for this application?

Maybe it will be faster withought the extra drag of the whole tail? ... just kidding I don’t have that picture yet... but this week?

It’s 100% relative to what right? I mean my particular engine the tsio520nb derived from the Cessna 340 and 414 twins is often rated 325 or 335 hp but it’s down rated to 305 in my airplane. fuel flow setting at 100% is much higher (and extra ooomph of fuel) so at full power 32gph it cools well on a hot days climb where as at cruise climb setting 27gph it gets hot after awhile. in winter though it climbs so ferociously even at cruise climb and it doesn’t get hot in very cold weather, I just take it easy at 85%.

I’m quite bewildered by the several of you retiring in your early 50s. I’m still surprised that I just turned 50! I still sort of think I’m still getting started. The thought of retiring hasn’t really crossed my mind yet. Maybe the desire to retire will hit me like a ton of bricks sooner than I think but I sort of figure I should go another 30 years so I can enjoy another 30 years of retirement in good health before I slow down after that. Hah!

Isn’t the modern sealant (a recent reseal ) different from the original? and avgas prist comes with a spray sky stem you are supposed to spray into the fuel nozzle stream as it flows rather than just dump it in. at weepnomore they the,selves dumped some isoprop into my fuel for me 0f morning for my departure in Minnesota Jan... so I figured they are good with isoprop,

Me too! But... that's it so far... I am now out of pictures and you are all caught up with what I have. And no work happened in that shop last week - flu epidemic. I hope I get it back this week but I dunno. More pictures soon! I promise....

You know what. I heard the same thing! I never heard of that book! Yes! And you will need a new tail number too - ...how about....N1618J

The tail is flat black and shiny silver. The NASA scoops and the shadow in the tail number are also matte black.

A few more pictures.

The M in TBM is for Mooney.

Not to make you feel bad Anthony, but I got an exactly identical unit in fantastic shape at an absolutely fantastic deal from a person in Quakertown, PA, about 18 months ago. Your backyard.

Indeed! It shows up in beautiful ways in beautiful places.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4214.Life_of_Pi

..and so is Pi.

Sorry about that! Seemed like a fun thing to do at the time.... For what its worth, that computer program I used computed the Million Digits of Pi in under a second, and displayed them too (which often takes longer to display than to actually compute). I just now tried to reduce the number of digits to say a few dozen from a million, but the editor on my browser crashes on several tries. So its stuck. Well we are on page 4 now, so I hope all my friends are back.

:-). I'm sorry. For what its worth I do my best to make my students feel smart but its harder to do in a setting like this. FYI - One of my former students is a Mooneyspacer....

Yes! It is considered the beautiful ratios, since the Greeks. I first learned about it in elementary school in a movie-cartoon they showed us Donald Duck in Mathematics Land. It came back in a deep way in my PhD work in KAM theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser_theorem in those physical applications I mentioned. That long run of a million digits of pi believe it or not I have a general use computer program that generates them faster than you can snap your fingers. I could have made 10 or 100 times as many but...too big to cut and paste into the window. It is a very cool general purpose program called Mathematica. Anyone can purchase it and it is very useful in a lot of ways. This one was just a parlor trick.,

I am a math professor. But Pi is not specifically the most important number for me, but I teach and there is "Pi Day" which is fun. And it is a very recognizable number that has a bit of a math flare. Actually my VERY favorite number is the Golden Mean, which is (1+Sqrt(5))/2=1.61803398874989484820458... but it shows up in amazing places in topics that I study. First note it has a beautiful continued fraction expansion as, (1+Sqrt(5))/2= It shows up in really amazing ways in various topics relating to resonance such as the rings of Saturn or plasma confinement. KAM theory is the topic.