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EAFerguson(at)aol.com
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:16 am Post subject: Gila Bend?

In a message dated 6/8/2008 7:30:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  waynelenox(at)juno.com writes:

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Gary   

My airport is AZ05.  Gila Bend AZ.  I will not be there until    November with N123WL.  Hope to finish build by end of June.  My wife    and I are in Shelbyville,TN for summer and it is very HOT.   

Wayne

	


 

 Wayne,

  

 You're from Gila Bend and Shelbyville is hot???? Humid  maybe??   Expect to hear from Buz about Gila Bend if you haven't  already.

  

 Earl Ferguson

 Atlanta at about 75 F and 90% RH at 8 AM. We'll hit 90+ today with maybe  some rain.



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jeynon2

Joined: 25 Oct 2007
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Location: Southern Illinois

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:55 am Post subject: Re: Gila Bend?

Living in Southern Illinois, I've discovered that it's not so much the temperature but the dew point that tells you what you need to know.  When watching the weather forecasts, I look more at the overnight lows, than the afternoon highs, to determine how many shirts I'll need the next day.



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N1BZRich(at)aol.com
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:33 pm Post subject: Gila Bend?

In a message dated 6/9/2008 8:17:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  EAFerguson(at)aol.com writes:

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		  Expect    to hear from Buz about Gila Bend if you haven't  already. 	


 

 Hi Earl and all Lightning listers,

     Wayne and I talked about Gila Bend and his private  strip (with a water skiing lake) while we were both in SYI some time ago.   His strip is located about half way between Gila Bend and Buckeye.  His  place is new, because it was not there while I was the base commander at the  Gila Bend ranges.   At the time the only airport close was  Pierce near Buckeye.  While there I kept my Bonanza at the base and used it  to fly to and from staff meetings at Luke several times a week.  Made for a  15 min. flight verses a 1+15 drive in my staff car.  Kept the Pitts at  Litchfield Park just south of Luke.  

     Anyway, Wayne and Nell's place looks to be kind of  "isolated" which would make for a great flying location with no neighbors to  worry about when doing high speed formation fly bys, etc..  Perfect  place.  Maybe we could talk them into hosting a "western" Lightning   fly-in at sometime in the future.  And speaking of "hosting", Wayne   you might talk to the current Gila Bend commander and get him to host a fly-in  there.  I did that while I was there and opened up the base for any EAA  member to fly into the base and we had a picnic for them and gave them a mission  brief on all that goes on at the ranges.  The EAA chapters in the area  seemed to really enjoy the event.  Also did one later for the Flying  Farmers.

     Here is some more "just for grins"  information:  N31BZ now has just over 450 hours in the last 2 &1/2  years.  I passed that total time Saturday morning flying over to Wakefield  to meet with Joe and Linda.  I think she now has about 80 hours on  59JL.  We were doing some airspeed runs with the new FK blade profile prop  she has on JL now.

     One other thought on 31BZ - in the 450 hours flown  I have had absolutely no engine or airframe problems.  I run the engine  fairly hard (as most of you know) and have only done normal  maintenance, oil and filter changes, and new spark plugs about every 100  hours.  By normal maintenance I am talking about head torques and valve  adjustments as my engine is an older one that has the solid lifters.  I  change oil and filter at 25 to 30 hour intervals, using Aeroshell W100  Plus.  Since spark plugs are so cheap when compared with standard aircraft  plugs I don't worry about cleaning and regaping.  I just replace them with  new.  One other thing I did at the 250 hour point was to replace rotors,  caps and plug wires.  They all looked fine, but at the time the maintenance  manual called for them to be changed at 200 hours.   That manual has  now changed to "replace as required" wording.  Realistically, they are  probably good for at least 300 if not 500 hours.  

     Hope everyone is thinking forward to Oshkosh.

 Blue Skies,

 Buz



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