Guest Duane Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Hello fellow pilots and all with the dream of flight. My name is Duane Drisko and I fly a X-Air-H with Jabiru 2200 out of S79, a grass strip 25 miles inland from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA. I have some time, 10hrs., in an AirBourne Edge 582 Trike. About 85 hrs. in a Sabre340 16 meter trike which I truely enjoyed. I built my X-Air-H to have more range for the many fly-ins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Welcome Duane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Hi Duane, Good Grief man, . . . you fly out of a "BRUSH STRIP" three thousand five hundred feet long, and one hundred feet wide, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? What absolute LUXURY. . . ! I am sooooooo envious. Our strips at my home base OTHERTON ( www.othertonairfield.co.uk ) has Six strips, but the longest ( Rwy 07/25 ) is a massive 870 feet ! the other four are 16/34 which is 770 feet, and the little one is only 220 metres, ( What's that,. . .about 670 feet !! ) We'd like a runway like yours so that my friend John Travolta could drop in for coffee with his Qantas livery Boeing 707 ! ! ! ! ( I wonder if he's still got that . . . .? ) I "Just a bloody bout" got a PA28 Piper Warrior 151 in there a few years ago, whilst we had a 20 knot wind on 25, but later the wind dropped to zero, ( wouldn't you know. . . ) and on leaving I had to disgorge my three passengers, and only took a Pilot friend (who weighs around fifty pounds in his shorts ) and only got five feet off the ground at the runway end, by yanking on 25 flap, and sinking down the hill until I got enough speed to pull it up over the 11Kv power lines at the edge of the roadway !! ( that really DID make my bum go "Fifty cents - five cents. . . . etc. . . ) Nowadays, we only accept STOL aircraft in the G.A. fleet, and ultralight / microlight airplanes which can handle the short spaces available. I used to fly a lot in Australia myself, and giggle a bit about the length of their "BUSH STRIPS" which are freeway length compared to the back gardens of houses that we fly from in the UK in our toy airplanes. . . ! ( Please forgive the use of the term "AIRPLANES" but Duane is from the States, . . . . and THEY invented them. ) Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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