DE Stubby In-flight enroute to fly-in

[Tom H]

I had this in another post, but not sure it was visible.  So, I'll try again.

 
Flew DE Stubby to the annual Ky EAA Rough River Fly-in Sept 8-10. 

Well, the weather was great.  I was able to fly DE Stubby down there, 93 miles each way, a real cross-country for Stubby.  I've flown there in previous years, record time was 1hr 6min.  This time was not so good - I had headwinds both ways.  Going there on Fri, took 1hr 23 min.  Coming back on Sun was worse.  When I first turned on my heading, I was showing a ground speed of 45 mph.  It was going to be a looong flight!  I tried changing altitude and found 2000 msl gave me about 60 mph ground speed.  Still took a while, though, total flight was 1hr 39 min.  Overall average for the whole flight was about 62 mph ground.  Surprisingly, the air was smooth, so it was not difficult, but I was glad to get back.

I've included a link to some air-to-air taken by a friend in a Zenith 750.  He says he likes flying alongside me because Stubby is the only airplane that he can pull away from.  Hey, it's all about the adventure, right?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzE-b2TMqwGgWmU3X2JFVDYxUVk/view?usp=sharing

I hope this shows right-side-up for you; it plays correctly in one application, but side-ways in another.

Here is a screen shot from the video:
 
 
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[MrG]

Awesome stuff Tom, know exactly how you feel,  my longest so far is 2h20m for 160nm - Yep i hell of a tail wind 

never got that on the way there thou

plays ok in google drive