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cdewey6969(at)yahoo.com
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject: Cat-Like Reflexes

Buzz, If after a 1000 or so hours in a Lightning,

could one white boy with a hundred or so extra hours

in a tail wheel like a Sonerai,and a very confident

and well-skilled pilot with nerves of steel and

cat-like reflexes, move up to the Nemesis NXT? I would

love to see Nick and crew come up with a design for a

plane that could push the 300mph mark yet cost half of

what a finished Nemesis would cost. They have done it

with pioneering the Lightning- I would love to see an

encore,   Fellow Lightningeer,  Charles

PS- Buzz- Being as experienced as you are, would you

feel confident flying the Nemesis over open water for

over 1000 miles (something like the Carribean chain)

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 In a message dated 9/6/2007 9:43:27 P.M. Eastern

 Daylight Time,  

 wb2ssj(at)earthlink.net writes:

 

 Also  cant wait to get a ride in that open cockpit

 lightning with the tail 

 wheel and  the 8 cylinder engine. It must be a hoot.

 

 

 Tex, 

     Right on, it is a hoot.  Be sure to bring your 

 leather helmet and 

 goggles.  

 See you there.

 Buz

 

 

 

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ddunbar(at)echidna.id.au
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: Cat-Like Reflexes

Hello Charles,



Friday, September 7, 2007, 12:30:49 PM, you wrote:



-->> Lightning-List message posted by: Charles Dewey <cdewey6969(at)yahoo.com>



CD> Buzz, If after a 1000 or so hours in a Lightning,

CD> could one white boy with a hundred or so extra hours

CD> in a tail wheel like a Sonerai,and a very confident

CD> and well-skilled pilot with nerves of steel and

CD> cat-like reflexes, move up to the Nemesis NXT? I would

CD> love to see Nick and crew come up with a design for a

CD> plane that could push the 300mph mark yet cost half of

CD> what a finished Nemesis would cost. They have done it

CD> with pioneering the Lightning- I would love to see an

CD> encore,   Fellow Lightningeer,  Charles

CD> PS- Buzz- Being as experienced as you are, would you

CD> feel confident flying the Nemesis over open water for

CD> over 1000 miles (something like the Carribean chain)

CD> --- N1BZRich(at)aol.com wrote:



 	  Quote: 	
		  >  

> In a message dated 9/6/2007 9:43:27 P.M. Eastern

> Daylight Time,  

> wb2ssj(at)earthlink.net writes:

> 

> Also  cant wait to get a ride in that open cockpit

> lightning with the tail 

> wheel and  the 8 cylinder engine. It must be a hoot.

> 

> 

> Tex, 

>     Right on, it is a hoot.  Be sure to bring your 

> leather helmet and 

> goggles.  

> See you there.

> Buz

> 

> 

> 

> http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

> 


	


       

CD> Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search 

CD> that gives answers, not web links. 

CD> http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC



Are you building a Lightning with the 8 cylinder jabiru?



-- 

Best regards,

 ddunbar                            mailto:ddunbar(at)echidna.id.au

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N1BZRich(at)aol.com
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject: Cat-Like Reflexes

Hi Charles,

     As always, you have proposed a very thought  provoking and complex question - or actually, questions.  Taking them  one at a time:

  

 -If after a 1000 or so hours in a Lightning, could one  white boy with a hundred or so extra hours

in a tail wheel like a Sonerai,and  a very confident and well-skilled pilot with nerves of steel and

cat-like  reflexes, move up to the Nemesis NXT?

     Personally, I don't think a really big number of  hours of total flying time is all that important.  I have seen 20,000+  hour pilots that I would not feel comfortable to let fly my airplane.   Sure, they must be good at systems management while letting the auto pilot do  the work, but their real stick and rudder skills were sorely lacking.  They  probably don't really enjoy general aviation or sport aircraft and thus take no  pride in flying one really well.  On the other hand, I have seen very low  time pilots that were on top of their flying game and I would have no  problem letting them fly one of my airplanes.  The more important  factor in my mind would be currency in the type of airplane you are going to  fly.  Also, when checking out in a new airplane, having a wide variety of  background experience in numerous airplanes is always a benefit as well.   So to check out in a Nemesis NXT, get some dual in one if that is even a  possibility.  If not, find a tail dragger that lands at about the same  speed and has the same amount of visibility in the landing configuration.   And don't forget, as Curtis Pitts once said, "There is no such thing as a  squirrely airplane.  Just squirrely pilots."   

  

 -I would love to see Nick and crew come up with a  design for a plane that could push the 300 mph mark yet cost half of what a  finished Nemesis would cost.

     I  have no idea what a Nemesis would cost (big bucks right??) but a totally new  Lightning to match Nemesis performance would be big bucks as well.  It  takes money to go fast.  You just can't hang a huge engine on the  Lightning and get it anywhere near 300.  Why?  To start with, the  current airfoil would probably hit a brick wall on the drag curve at something  around 225 or so (ask Nick).  And just how much power would it take to get  the current Lightning to 225 in level flight?  Well, an IO-550 (300 HP)  might come close, but the current Lightning fuselage would need major  modifications to mount and handle that much HP.  And then you would need  much larger fuel tanks, etc, etc.  Thus the gross weight goes way up,  requiring a larger wing, etc, etc.  Heck, I guess we will just need to  start with a clean sheet of paper to design the airplane you are looking  for.  That would be easier and probably cheaper.  Once you get it  designed and flying, then maybe others will want one as well, but then do that  many people have the money, the desire, and the capability to buy, build and fly  such a design.  Don't know, but it is fun to think about.

  

 -would you feel confident flying  the Nemesis over open water for over 1000 miles (something like the Carribean  chain)

     Well, if  I were current and proficient in the Nemesis, and if it has that kind of  range plus reserve, and if it can carry the right survival gear, and if the  weather was right, and if my destination has the right runway environment,  then yes.  It normally takes me about 10 hours (sometimes more)  to feel confident in a new (to me) airplane, but by feeling confident, I  don't just mean flying it straight and level and then landing on a long  runway (that would probably only take an hour or less).  I like to  be feel confident in all flight regimes of an airplane's  envelop.  And of course that envelop varies greatly from airplane to  airplane.  In some cases that would include aerobatics, in others it might  mean slow flight and maneuvering at high angles of attack, in others in  might include landing on back country airports or perhaps on  no runways at all.  So it all depends.  But to feel  confident, I want to be able to fly the airplane to it's max  design capabilities and then land on any runway that meets it's minimum  design specifications, and in any wind condition that I am likely to  encounter.  The rest of your 1000 mile Nemesis question really has to  do with that airplane itself and I just don't know that much about  it.  But one thing for sure, it is one beautiful  airplane.

 Blue Skies,

 Buz

  



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