First flight of a P-47N-2RE
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 10:22 amFirst off, I'd like to thank Ozzy for helping me learn how to post my screens. Thanks Ozzy! Okay, I put all of Malinowski's beautiful P-47s in FS2k2, and they all work great. I took off from my local airport, Columbia Co., in mid Feburary.
Sitting on the runway doing one last check, don't need anything going wrong on this first flight.
I barely got up before the end of the runway. Not a good way to start out.
While climbing to altitude I realize that the plane flies beautiful.
At altitude I take the time to take a sweeping view of the Hudson Valley.
I notice I'd flown quite away from the airport, so I inverted and dove down to 2,000 to enter the pattern at 1,200.
On final for runway 3, I'm a little nervous. It took nearly the hole runway to take off, I wondered how much it would take to land...
The moment of truth...
My wheels scream and smoke as they kiss the asfault.
Well I stopped with about 25% percent of the runway left, taxied to my hangar, and shut her down. A good 20 minute first flight.
Sitting on the runway doing one last check, don't need anything going wrong on this first flight.
I barely got up before the end of the runway. Not a good way to start out.
While climbing to altitude I realize that the plane flies beautiful.
At altitude I take the time to take a sweeping view of the Hudson Valley.
I notice I'd flown quite away from the airport, so I inverted and dove down to 2,000 to enter the pattern at 1,200.
On final for runway 3, I'm a little nervous. It took nearly the hole runway to take off, I wondered how much it would take to land...
The moment of truth...
My wheels scream and smoke as they kiss the asfault.
Well I stopped with about 25% percent of the runway left, taxied to my hangar, and shut her down. A good 20 minute first flight.
