Interview with a Husky Owner

From above, there's that lever right there, almost in your lap, and when you go into flare for a really short landing, you'll want the elevator adjustment to be back there so you can reach that full stall lever all the way. Sit back on your lap without fighting the neutral position for takeoff and with the nose down to enter and exit the plane and see again how the stick moves with the trim to move the entire range of the elevator, so a little of history of this particular. airplane that you were telling me about before that's why I'm there well that's why I bought this airplane because I knew this airplane was new it was purchased by bart rieby,

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of ruby's napa auto parts stores throughout the region here in 1997 and had it for at least 20 years, put 2000 hours on it and I watched it fly and get serviced at the same shop for all those years at our local airport and then it changed

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s and then it broke down and crashed. incident and then I found it for sale just two years ago, they rebuilt it with this new paint job and and uh right wing after that damage, but while bart ruby ​​on this plane his father from the riby is an old friend of chuck yeager , General Chuck Yeager, you know, famous for breaking the speed of sound, Chuck Yeager has lived here in the Grass Valley area for many many years, so Jaeger used to fly this plane quite a while, oh yeah, I would borrow it. from the family and flew it for many years and finally ended up buying his own aviate

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an a1b and that's the one you see with the little bell x1 painted on the counter great yeah so it has a bit of history yeah this one is the instrument panel of the first model.

I like it because it is a lower panel. Later Husky models have higher panels to accommodate the larger ones. Modern glass screen avionics, but for me I like this traditional six pack screen, this whole panel shows up here every time you have to work on the instrument panel and your standard piper gauges here, good old analog stuff to go with I'm familiar, that's what we were. up, that's right here, you've got your flap handle, one, two, three flap notches right there and there's your flap speed, a little over 73 miles per hour, approximately, the white arc, how Is it the three-point touchdown?

Short field number that you are looking for as far as speed so you know you can fly your pattern around 65 indicated 60 on final and you can lower it to 55 and then if you really want to do a high aoa, increase the power of that airspeed. it's going to drop very low before you get to a full stall if you're too far behind the power curve and turn on the power, so with the big tires the nose is already high, the attitude is right, so you can get those three. -point attitude and then normally you just flatten it out and you can reel it in the net from there, pull the flaps and hit the brakes and get your shortest landings in the field that way, without wearing out these expensive tires, should we? take it around the pattern and do a takeoff and landing.

We could do that. I have full fuel right now, so I'm fine with overweight on fuel. We'll just let the viewers know that he's capable of more, yeah. I might have some archive footage from that too, so check that out, give it a try, I'm too smart, I can't do it, so Mark at Sky Wagon University, another

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with the owner with Juan Brown, Juan, thank you very much, it was great. Alright, if you like the video, subscribe to the little link here and click the bell and any comments are welcome and if you have an interesting airplane that you think we'd like to do something similar with. just contact me and download it, we can do something like this.

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