Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: "Rick Holland"

Original Posted By: Clif Dawson
Well if we are all sharing, One fine morning we were climbing out of Nevada County airport headed for Idaho in my Dads C-182. My Dad was flying, retired KC-135 pilot with 30,000+hr, I was his all knowing co-pilot, 60 hr private pilot and Mom was in the back seat. We had been climbing over the trees (Sierra Nevada Foothills) for about 5 to 10 minutes when all of a sudden we all heard and felt a loud BANG! Even with our head sets on and the engine at full power. What the heck was that? What we hit? Are the wings still on? Did we just loose half the engine? Are we trailing smoke? It's amazing how many things go through your mind. While my mind was racing Dad had turned the plane around, which I had not noticed, and he was checking the engine gauges and running the emergency check list as cool as a cucumber. All was fine we were holding altitude, and the engine ran fine. It was not the engine and we are were not falling out of the sky. We kept thinking of what it could be. Perhaps it was a stuck nose wheel strut extending. After about 5 tense minutes Mom pipes up, hey, there's chips all over the place back here. Yep the Mylar chip bag had exploded. It was very frightening. Dad said if you think that was bad you should try flying into Guam in a Typhoon. After that we always opened the chips before takeoff.Chris TracySacramento, CaWebsite at http://www.WestCoastPiet.com________________________________________________________________________________Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:55:37 -0800

Original Posted By: "tmbrant1(at)netzero.com"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: chip bag exploding, turbulence over Chicago....war storiesThis story reminded me of one of my wife's first flights with me. I'd recentlybeen checked out in an Archer which counted for using the FBOs Warrior - althoughI had never flown it. I scheduled a flight in the Warrior with my wife andbrother. She sat in the back. From the beginning of the flight things weregoing wrong.. DG precessing agressively, radios blinking on and off, etc..My brother and I were trying to figure out what was going on with the radioswhen all of the sudden we heard what sounded like an electrical short - it soundedlike something was frying. My brother and I both looked at eachother withthat look of - oh crap, we're gonna have to take this thing down and now...We look around and behind us and we heard the noise again coming from behindus... It was my wife - she'd opened a bag of chips and the rustling sound soundedjust like something was frying. She just looked at us innocently and said- what??Tom B._____________________________________________________________Click for free information on accounting careers, $150/hour potential.http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL ... __________