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Bruces S-19 Build Log
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Date: 6-5-2009
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Number of Hours: 0.00
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Brief Description: Flight Report
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Over the nose visibility is extremely good even in climb attitude. All around visibility is outstanding. The airplane seemed to be stable and well behaved. Randy did some steep turns and stall, there was no oil-canning or other strange noises. I did some Dutch rolls, the airplane felt good. The airplane is easy to trim and the stick forces remain light even with the airplane out of trim. I'm so rusty that mostly I just had fun. It was a calm day so Randy (brave man) let me fly the landing. Halfway through the pattern he started muttering something about this being his only demonstrator, I flew a very high pattern (glider pilot) and put in full flaps on base. Full flaps were very effective but even so I needed a slip on short final. With full flaps and slip the airplane lost altitude as well as a glider with full spoilers (very fast). The big rudder made it easy to slip the airplane down to just above the runway. The airplane felt very stable and recovered out of the slip into landing attitude very easily. Randy was saying something about how my flying might be bad for his business and his right hand was making funny twitching motions. On flare I let the airplane get a little cross ways to the runway centerline. We touched down firmly but there was no bounce, we were headed towards the weeds bordering the runway but the airplane tracked well after the touch down and was easy to control. Randy, amazed that we were still alive, threw caution to the wind and suggested that we go around again. Naturally I forgot that we still had full flaps and added power. Randy, who was paying attention, picked up the flaps and we were back in the air. The next landing was perhaps a little more under control, it sure is fun being a bad pilot in a good airplane. I flew what I thought was less like a kamikaze approach, but even so we landed well down the runway and way off center. The airplane withstood my mishandling without complaint. It was as much fun to fly as a sailplane, and that is saying a lot. Great airplane – great fun.
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Great looking ship
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Climb attitude view
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Was a great flight
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