Day 6 - Big bad Slim

The mission today was to make it to Slim's Lambert home strip. The weather was quite settled all day, which allowed for a late start and flying all day. We stopped off in Savannah Tennessee after 2 hours in the air and had catfish for lunch. (We were in catfish country the local told us). After lunch we flew to find Slim's magnificent airstrip. We landed at about 2pm right in the heat of the day with a few thermals popping off.


Slim, a giant of a man, with a big heart more than happy to provide some vital mechanical support as we swapped triking stories. My 582 was running rich and always had since berth. Slim showed me the trick of lowering the clip in the carbs to lean it out a bit. It worked wonders, with a saving on fuel economy of 2 liter (1/2 a gallon) and hour. We also cleaned the plugs and re-oiled the oil filter. It was nice to have access to a full set of tools and some good advice.


After that we went for a fly over some magnificent tiger country and had to get back before a storm approached! Both our trikes had Airborne Cruz Wings. The extra weight of two up had me flying about 2 knot faster than Slim's Apex Cross-5X base with the lighter 503.

Slim's mate Dale took me for a ride in he's 1946 Cessna 140. This aircraft is a fully restored Tail Dragger. I had never been in a tail dragger before and was very excited. It amazes me how little aircraft have changed fundamentally in all these years. At the end of this short clip we fly over Dale's house and he shows me his short airstrip in his front yard !! Apparently Dale gets on fine with his neighbour's !! Check this out.

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