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For when base jumping isn't dangerous enough and you gotta think of a way to raise the stakes.

That's a >200kts bird in cruise at no O2 needed. I want that cowl on my airplane!

Joke: How many FAA certificated personnel does it take to change a light bulb?

It does - but it must be custom. I want one...

I'm afraid you might be remembered for something else.... hint - those pictures you keep assaulting my eyes with.

Fear is like an intense understanding of what could happen wrong, but mixed in with a strong dose of emotional content and when that second part is too strong it can interfere. So best would be the first component with only a minor dose of the second - which is easier said than done. But this is what I take by the phrase "a little fear is good".

Quite right Marauder. I don't know one of those 4 incidents you mentioned, but by memory anyway, the other three involved a strong dose of decision making problems that could easily have avoided their accidents entirely. Houman had his problem upon landing, not take-off.

That's not enough. Already the rocket/missile conversion required putting TWO large 35mAMP batteries in a tray in the way way back of the tail. The M20C is shorter. Seems like they would need a rod sticking outside the airplane another 2 ft with a bag of lead shot! There must be a bag of lead in the way back of the tail.

And by the time I got to 50,000 hours.... Well - I'll never get to 50,000....or 10,000. I am at 1,100. When I was at about 125 I read a really good book by a fellow who had 50,000 hours, largely in GA, who just mostly told stories and tried to impart some of his wisdom. I found it to be an enjoyable read and for $9.95 its like hiring Yoda-the-CFI. I highly recommend: Beyond The Checkride: What Your Flight Instructor Never Taught You 1st Edition by Howard Fried (Author)

Being a safer pilot means learning how to be a little bit flakey with your schedule. I'll be there if...the weather is fine. I might come early. I might come late. I might not come at all! Or...if you are flying somewhere not toooo far away - for me that means like 6 to 8 hours, then yeah I will say I will be there when I promise - but darned I might end up driving. Practice watching the weather on a daily basis to a favorite destination thats maybe an 8 hour drive away, and practice that every day for like two weeks, and saying that stuff I said above...you will be a safer pilot.

I want that cowl.

Ricky roll https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

I'm sorry to hear about your accident and very glad to hear it was not worse. I crash/totalled a car almost one year ago now, on the highway. First accident since I was 17 - knock on wood. Scared the #^%*&8 out of me, but that is all. The car crash cage, the engine mounts, etc all did their job to absorb impact. So did the seatbelt and airbag. I hit that seat belt hard enough that my chest was black and blue for weeks. Several years ago I was emailing regularly with am safe trying to get them to extend their airbag seatbelt stc to earlier models, and they seemed like they would perhaps, but clearly never did. I wonder if in the current environment of part 23 rewrite if they would reconsider.

Statistically motorcycles are worse. another big difference is we individually are mostly responsible for our own bad statistics (mostly poor decisions) where in motorcycles it’s often out of our hands when bad luck strikes.

Wait a second.... and I have an old gps from 1776 to sell you... it costs extra because it’s the same gps that general Washington used navigating at night while crossing the Delaware attacking the British fortification. I’ll start bidding at $25k

That one with 200 and a head wind makes me laugh. common. 395?? You could pour some more juice and pop Us a 400?

Here's a little tease..... the primary color is called "Kona Blue" (a color code I stole from the ford car colors - so you can look up Kona blue) and it is sort of a chameleon color - sometimes it looks dark blue, sometimes purple, sometimes shiny..and there is a trick added to the paint too - more soon. It is mostly this color throughout with a certain accent... more tease in the next few days. The paint is ALL done in fact and she's being put together on Monday.

My camera doesn’t even work flying in to head winds. speaking of which I need to dig out the picture I have of my claimed top ground speed. 27,000 eh...speaking of which have any of you seen the story in the paper with guy and his homemade manned rocket he made - with flat earth society painted on the side - says he is finally going to prove the earth is flat. He expects to getup to....drum roll please...1,800 ft!!! I hope he survives this crazy mission.

I think it would work fine in foreflight at least in synth vis mode - on a cell phone. For twenty five bucks, I might give this thing a test drive.

I'm not so well grounded. Let me announce it right here right now - after my first $100M I'm buying a TBM930.

I don't remember that about that day - but I have had many bumpy days - so I can say that it didn't stick out. But I know I have had days with significant tail winds on that same trip (but that was by far the biggest) and often what seems to happen is the wind is quite smooth but strong at high altitude like that. So you wouldn't even know you were in a wind if you didn't look at a GPS. But you need to be VERY careful coming down to keep it out of the yellow since on those massive tail wind days, there is often a layer, somewhere in the 4 to 8k altitude range, which I think is due to the leeward winds from the Adirondack mountains (which are up to 5k), where you hit a BIG bump all of a sudden. So no no to power decents on those days or else....

KPTD->KHFD so 200nm. And the winds that day...not much time to enjoy the ground speed. :-). My only regret is I didn't crank that motor up to full warp speed and try to squeeze out another 5 or 10 knots. Its a heck of a lot of work when coming in really hot on an ifr flight plan and shooting through all the way points and switching controllers that fast - I guess this is totally the normal speed of business for jets doing 400 or 500 knots but adding on an extra 100 knots to normal pace of business working through the system, for a mooney first time, makes a noticeable difference.

Ummmm...how unexciting.

Agreed! But I won't buy that TBM930 just yet (haha if ever) and I will stick with this pokey-ol' Mooney Rocket.

I don't remember the specs, since it was maybe 5 years ago but I remember the day well that I hit 326 - I was at 17k on my way to Hartford and I was not pushing it hard - so I would say I bet I was at 65% at 18gph and likely something like 200TAS. It was just a fantastic tail wind day. It ended up such a short flight that basically I went up and then almost right away I had to come down again.