Author Topic: The Lone Eagle  (Read 2100 times)

Offline FLOOB

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Re: The Lone Eagle
« Reply #30 on: November 28, 2013, 04:28:58 PM »
:airplane: Well, whom ever did the documentary didn't know what they were talking about!
I found it, go to 31:45 in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf3Z7Nf2b3k
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Offline Valkyrie

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Re: The Lone Eagle
« Reply #31 on: December 01, 2013, 09:33:29 AM »
Floor if you continue another minute into the video you will see that he was proved right. Also the item at issue is running lean of peak on the engine. You can read up on this concept and see that it is a rather poorly understood concept that works. See John Deakins columns at pelicans perch on avweb.com

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« Reply #32 on: December 01, 2013, 07:09:23 PM »
I don't care, it's boring to me. I'm just glad I found the source I was paraphrasing.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans” - John Steinbeck