How about a simple Challenge Flight for us Niners?

[Dangerousdave26]

Well the check list forgot to close the cowl flaps once I got in cruise mode so I lost about an hour of a tab bit more speed.

713 nm out

2 hrs ETE

Currently 350 on the GS.

 

[JSMR]

This is exciting stuff!
Holy Moly that Spit is fast! 
But will the B-29 come through and surprise us all with a victory?

 

The tension is building! Hope to run leg 3 today. 
 

 

[Dangerousdave26]

Down and safe

 

Details on the flight to follow

 

Details from the Duenna text file.

 

Summary:
  Baton Auto Pickup :        NO
  Autopilot Disabled :       NO
  Direct Distance :          1,780.0 nm
  Flight Distance :          1,785.2 nm
  Flight Time :              05:34:05
  Baton Time :               05:37:49 (INTERNET)

I manually grabbed the Baton and then powered up to take off.

I parked the airplane (maybe in it an actual spot) and then stopped the Duenna.

 

Flight time 5 hrs 34 minutes 5 seconds

Take off to park 5 hrs 37 minutes  49 seconds.

 

Max Groundspeed :          375.1 kts
Max IAS :                  257.2 kts

Max Altitude :             25,552.1 ft

Avg Groundspeed :          317.7 kts

 

 

 

[ViperPilot2]

1 hour ago, Dangerousdave26 said:

Down and safe

 

Details on the flight to follow

 

Details from the Duenna text file.

 

Summary:
  Baton Auto Pickup :        NO
  Autopilot Disabled :       NO
  Direct Distance :          1,780.0 nm
  Flight Distance :          1,785.2 nm
  Flight Time :              05:34:05
  Baton Time :               05:37:49 (INTERNET)

I manually grabbed the Baton and then powered up to take off.

I parked the airplane (maybe in it an actual spot) and then stopped the Duenna.

 

Flight time 5 hrs 34 minutes 5 seconds

Take off to park 5 hrs 37 minutes  49 seconds.

 

Max Groundspeed :          375.1 kts
Max IAS :                  257.2 kts

Max Altitude :             25,552.1 ft

Avg Groundspeed :          317.7 kts

 

Awesome flight, Dave! For the Record, which Time do you want to use as your Official Time? 

[ViperPilot2]

Okay... I've gone through all of the Posts from Pages 5-8, and this is what I think is the Current Tally:

 

NAME.       Airplane          1st Leg          2nd Leg               3rd Leg            4th Leg       TOTAL

VP2            P-38J              1:42                   1.25                     1:18*               1:22**       5:48**

DD              B-29                   x                         x                           x                      x              5:38*

JMSR         P-51                1:32                  1:18                      1:15*                1:18^        5:23^

defaid        DH.98             1:36                  1:21                      1:18••               1:24•         5:39• 

SM             Spitfire            1:24                  1:13                      1:08**              1:16••        5:01••

jgf               P-38J             1:36                   1:30*                    1:10**              1:17°         5:33°

taoftedal   Sea Fury         1:29                   1:19                     1:11                 1:15           5:14 

PRB            F7F                   --                         --                          --                       --

 

-- = Leg Not Complete

x = Time Not Recorded (Non Stop Flight)

* = Edited 10/5

** = Edited 10/6

•• = Edited 10/7

° = Edited 10/8

^ = Edited 10/10

• = Edited 10/11

If I missed someone's Time or made any boo boo's, please speak up and correct me!

 

Whaddya think, guys? Looks like it's a Competition! 

[jgf]

Second leg, KCEZ-KHLC, same engine management as first, 255-259KIAS, 338 GS, 520mi in 1hr 30min.  Might have been a bit faster but got distracted and didn't time my descent properly so had to loop around and land.

 

[ViperPilot2]

5 minutes ago, jgf said:

Second leg, KCEZ-KHLC, same engine management as first, 255-259KIAS, 338 GS, 520mi in 1hr 30min.  Might have been a bit faster but got distracted and didn't time my descent properly so had to loop around and land.

 

Nice job, jgf! 

[Dangerousdave26]

2 hours ago, ViperPilot2 said:

 

Awesome flight, Dave! For the Record, which Time do you want to use as your Official Time? 

That is up to you but the Baton time fit more the spirit of the event.

[ViperPilot2]

1 hour ago, Dangerousdave26 said:

That is up to you but the Baton time fit more the spirit of the event.

 

I will use the Baton Time, and Edit my previous Post to reflect that. Thanks, DD! 

[ScottishMike]

I dashed out on the apron, the latest weather reports had come through.

Suzanne was standing staring up at the Spitfire doing what looked like circuits.

“What the … is John up to?”

“Being a film star.”

“What do you mean?” Suzanne pointed to a group at the end of the runway

“The Squitts porridge goons wanted to film the plane taking off.”

“Get him down! I've received the latest forecasts. We go now!”

“Mike relax, John said he'd do three circuits, the cameraman said that should do it”.

The plane landed smoothly and taxied towards us. “I'll fuel him up and he can go.” she added.

John slid the canopy back, while Suzanne re-fuelled.

John was beaming from ear to ear.

“Pay attention Tom Cruise, I've got the latest weather:

 

 

Simple leg. Climb to 21,000' and full speed to KFSW excellent wind all the way”.

“No can do. I think it was JSMR said: “It's not an emergency and it's not war.”So we don't use those settings.”

“Fine time you've chosen to grow yourself a social conscience. Suzanne, can you get Tom Cruise here a bicycle, it produces less CO2, he's doing the next two legs on it.

And actually it IS a war.”

I gave John the most serious stare I could.

He stared back vacantly.

I continued: “America is at war with obesity. If we, no, if YOU win you will save the lives of tens of thousands of good citizens. If all Americans learn to have a bowl of porridge for breakfast YOU will be a hero!”

“Fuel 70%, he's ready to go.” Suzanne announced.

He slid the canopy shut while Suzanne and I swung the tail round, that's when I saw it. Stuck to the fuselage: “What the hell is that?”

“Oh yes the Squitts logo, we intended to remove it. No time now.”

“He's almost full size” I said.

“Fine figure of a man” she added.

John taxied the Spit to the runway lined up and gunned it.

Wheels up time.

Thats him off. Let's get the crate loaded and follow.

[taoftedal]

Remember John ... there are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but ...

[JSMR]

3rd Leg in! 

 

HLZ-FSW

Start : 1200 (local) 

End : 1315

Height : 28000

Take off & climb : 61 / 3000  *15 mins limit

Crz : 46 / 2700  (Max Continuous) 

Climb speed : 180 mph 
Start fuel : 140 gallons  (too much!!))

Finish fuel : 29.19  
Total time : 1:15 (to stop) 

 

Bad leg! Too much fuel.  Ok descent. But terrible approach. Sheesh. I'll try and get some images. So annoying to try and convert them then upload to Imgur then post here. 

 

 

[ViperPilot2]

Third Competition Leg complete!

Aircraft: F-5E Photo Lightning (Copley P-38J)

Takeoff from KHLC: 0745 CDT

Wheels Stop @ KFSW: 0903 CDT

Elapsed Time: 1:18

Distance: 399 nm

Altitude: 15,500' (FL150)

Power Settings:

 

Climb to Altitude: 42# MP/2900 RPM

Cruise: 42# MP/2900 RPM

 

Fuel Remaining: 40%

 

Whew! Almost kacked the Landing, but got it down okay. Time for a bowl of Ramen @ Rai Rai Ken! 

 

 

[ScottishMike]

He was not sure what to do. The distraction caused him to forget to lean the mixture. He came to his senses as the Spit slowed to 120 kts. This plane climbed so quickly and the critical leaning was between 5000' and 12,000'. Never mind, he caught it in time, the engine responded picking up speed, he had also instinctively dropped the nose. Next time he'd try to make a smoother climb out and turn to heading. He kept daydreaming of himself in a tux at a Holywood party, beautiful women wanting to be photographed with him.

“Get a grip” he told himself. But a grip of what? The sensible thoughtful caring pilot or the winning hero, star of the silver screen?

He decided he could use emergency power for a few minutes then fall back to cruise then go back to emergency power., alternating between the two; was that not how emergency power was meant to be used?

Cruising not killing

Full throttle into Nebraska

 

Crossing the Missouri at cruise and approximate half way.

 

Half way time check.

 

Mississippi ahoi! And diving descent for KFSW

 

Crossing the Mississipi for the second time to line up for Rwy 34

 

Almost there!

 

Full stop and time check

He sat outside with a cold beer. The caring loving Superstar.

1 hour 8 minutes.

[taoftedal]

Apologies DaDave.  I was in the pilot’s lounge napping when you arrived.  Welcome to Cleveland!  When you get a chance, I would love a tour of the Superfortress, and if you would like, feel free to take the Sea Fury up for a spin.

 

Fantastic John!  

[Dangerousdave26]

Then you missed all the excitement when I landed on runway 6 and runway 24 was the active runway.

 

A Boeing 737 was kind of Peeved off at me. It was a classic head on almost crash. Wish I would have had ATC open to listen to the chatter.

 

I was a little too busy trying to get it stopped to grab a screenshot at that moment. Rather disappointing it was. The view of the aircraft from underneath was rather cool.

[jgf]

15 hours ago, JSMR said:

So annoying to try and convert them then upload to Imgur then post here. 

 

I upload straight from my computer.

[JSMR]

1 hour ago, jgf said:

 

I upload straight from my computer.

My images are always too large in size though as they're all BMP files which also isn't supported here. 

[jgf]

8 minutes ago, JSMR said:

My images are always too large in size though as they're all BMP files which also isn't supported here.

 

Mine are saved as BMP, so about 6meg in size, but then load in plain old MSPaint and save as jpg.

[jgf]

Third leg, KHLZ-KFSW.  Flew at 23k ft, averaged 256KIAS, 375kt gs.  Landed at 1hr 10 min with 25% fuel remaining.

 

[JSMR]

 

7 minutes ago, jgf said:

 

Mine are saved as BMP, so about 6meg in size, but then load in plain old MSPaint and save as jpg.

 

 I have done that.  I have so many I was trying some free online converters to do as many as possible in one go. Just being lazy...

[JSMR]

5 minutes ago, jgf said:

Third leg, KHLZ-KFSW.  Flew at 23k ft, averaged 256KIAS, 375kt gs.  Landed at 1hr 10 min with 25% fuel remaining.

 

 

Nice run!! Fast time!

[jgf]

5 minutes ago, JSMR said:

Nice run!! Fast time!

Thanks.   Not having to deal with strict realism helps;  in RL I doubt you could run a P-38 at 50mp more than 7-8 minutes without having to parachute home.

[ViperPilot2]

15 minutes ago, jgf said:

Thanks.   Not having to deal with strict realism helps;  in RL I doubt you could run a P-38 at 50mp more than 7-8 minutes without having to parachute home.

 

Our Lightnings would end up on the scrap pile IRL after this Flight! Some would scoff at us, saying "That's not the way to treat an Airplane, even if you picked them up as Surplus for a Song and a Dance!"

[JSMR]

1 hour ago, jgf said:

Thanks.   Not having to deal with strict realism helps;  in RL I doubt you could run a P-38 at 50mp more than 7-8 minutes without having to parachute home.

Having fun is the name of the game.

 

After my last leg for this race I want to try it non stop. See what time I get. Need to install an autopilot though!

Also want to see if the cfg will allow me to push the engine to 67 mp so I can try the 5 min war emergency limit. Must be a beast on initial climb!