What price is speed?

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GAHorn
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Post by GAHorn »

Harold, perhaps your angle of attack (in slow flight) added instrument position error to your pitot input. The fact that both 170's indicated slightly more than yours implies either that, or perhaps that your airspeed indicator is reading slightly low.
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Post by 4-Shipp »

Ah, if we could only go faster... I wasn't the slowest guy at the ariport until the UPF 7 left. Then the Champ showed up so I was number two (from the bottom) again :wink:

If my 170 was only 50 kts faster and carrried another 300 pounds, its only problems would be it was too slow and didn't carry enough :D
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Post by ohanley »

"Speed is inversely proportional fun"
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price of speed

Post by C170BDan »

ohanley wrote:"Speed is inversely proportional fun"
I thought is was when the more noise we make the more fun we are having!? Seeing a Cub or a 170 to a flyby is fun... but it is way more fun to see a Corsair flyby. Corsair = more noise!

Also... a friend of mine always said...

"It boils down to two things that make flight possible... money and airspeed... with enough money... a brick will fly!"
Dan
1956 170B N3467D
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