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Can't get any softer than this birdstrike. And watch out for those balloons!

Time flies when you are having fun, flying.

Interesting - and that is city living. As I said - here in rural living it is greatly more in favor of GA. 3 or 4 min drive to the airport and so 20 min from my house to wheels up. Driving 2.5 hrs to the commercial airport makes for 4-4.5 hrs from my door to wheels up.

No.... Well I don't know about the 787, but... I had a Diamond DA40 and...it developed corrosion in the wing! There is a mesh work inside the wing, underneath the layers of carbon to wick static electricity. And they used a cheap hardware that has cheap screws that are visible on the outside. And dissimilar metals...which became a conduit for corrosion. So bubbles developed underneath the paint and the only cure is to "scarf" (the term the factory used) the carbon layers and lay-up some new material. My repair was caught early and cost roughly 2k for a patch the size of my hand, but reading in that forum I saw some people were being hit with 10 and 20k jobs! So replacing a corroded piece of hardware costs 10 times as much if it is buried underneath the carbon.

Premium Mooney right there.

>300kts. Does your mom still have her dryer? Maybe I can install that motor in my machine? I didn't know that Pratt and Whitney made washing machines. OK - new plan. I fly to your place...2.5 hrs. Then I buy the washing machine which you kindly lend to me, and then I will be in SAF 4 hrs after that.

I was booking out a trip to Santa Fe, NM last week, for next month - it got cancelled... but here is what I researched. From Potsdam (way upstate NY) to Santa Fe by airlines, door-door including leaving the house 4.5 hours before the flight since it is a 2.5 hrs drive to Syracuse (and 1.5 to Ottawa but the border adds other time problems), and 2 connecting flights, for a total of 9.5 hrs booked time, that makes 14 hours. Mooney Rocket I came out at 9.5 hrs there, plus 2 fuel stops (it would get there on 1, but its a bit long), and 7-7.5 hrs back and maybe 1 fuel stop. Assuming the weather does not have me zigging and zagging all over Texas and Kansas, and North Dakota. And the airport with my mooney is 1 mile from my house. But there you have it 1550 nm trip and STILL a good bit faster than the airlines. On more modest trips, like DC, I am at my destination before I would otherwise be parking the car in the parking structure at a commercial airport. Yes a Mooney Rocket does a good bit over 200 if you pour fuel into it, and still does a good 200 if you pour quite a bit less into it. Of course 300 would be nice... 400 even nicer. 500 even better. I would go suborbital if I could afford it. But 200 I can actually afford and own.

I carry a FULL BOTTLE OF SHAMPOO!!!!!!

hah! If only Monty Python had the internet.

African or European?

Ok for the retired and active military fighter pilots: 1) What is the time to climb to 40,000ft from a stop on the runway. Bonus question open to all. 2) What is the average airspeed of an unladen African swallow.

Isn't there a fighter pilot on here? Someone? I bet an F16 can get to 40k pretty quick on after burners, enough to embarrass a poky-ol 747 driver.

...but it is a HIGH PERFORMANCE machine! 82 seconds to 40,000ft ain't too shabby. Slightly less expensive - can't the fighter jets do 20,000fpm (for a little while...with a running start...vs standing start for the Saturn V). Job are you here?

Kind of noisy too.

Well - if we are changing hardware. Let's get a REAL rocket: Saturn V rocket will do 82 seconds to 40,000ft:Altitude: Time after launch10000ft: 42sec 20000ft: 59sec 30000ft: 72sec 40000ft: 82sec 50000ft: 90sec 65000ft: 99sec 80000ft: 107sec 100000ft: 119sec

Well I’m in northern new york like 15 mi from Canada. Maybe we say fl17 when we live 15 mi from Canada.

Ive been to Europe... they say FL06 even.

Oooooh come on even your poky lil' 3 bladed rocket can do the same.... How long does it take your REAL airplane to climb to FL17? 3 min? 4?

I don't have a C. Yes I mean my Mooney Rocket. It can climb a bit faster still but after 10k or so I need to tip the nose down a bit to keep it cooling enough as the air thins.

Hi Don and all, I actually really really like that I can hear myself breathing when using a pulse delivery system, the O2D2. Besides saving O2, the fact that I hear the pulse every time I breath means I know each and every breath that the system is in fact delivering O2. I figure this is a good feature protection against failure. Besides its fun sounding like Darth Vader. "ATC: N10933, descend and maintain eleven thousand". "Me: I am your father Luke."

Solo I can get the fl17 in under 13 min.

:-)

I've been in Cirrus - if I was going to be ruined - I would already... But we can have a beer and brag about who thinks they have the better airplane. :-)

False on both accounts. Being tall I chose a Mooney over several other brands, including Cirrus, in part because it is more comfortable. Faster. Better looking too. Those are irrefutable facts. One door - you get partial credit on that half-true answer. You must be talking about the those OLD Acclaims. >The funny thing is I had k time so insurance just let me blast off in the rocket. The sr22 basically needs a type rating Is that because of the parachute? Or the safety record. Doh! Im just pulling your leg - cuz one shouldn't sell a perfectly good Mooney for a Cirrus and then expect anything but a rubbing around these parts. I bet it will be a beautiful airplane. Hey I am currently bidding a contract joint with some folks at CU Boulder and if we get it...I will sometimes drive my Rocket out that way. If you want to have a "cooler-airplane" show-down?

You shouldn't have said that around these parts. Cuz we all know the FACT that an acclaim is waaaaay cooler. And faster. Waaaaay!