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From: dixon@rtp47.UUCP (Wally Dixon)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Jinxed Airplane?
Message-ID: <62@rtp47.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 09:01:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: rtp47.62
Posted: Thu Jun  6 09:01:13 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Jun-85 20:12:15 EDT
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Reply-To: dixon@dgux.UUCP (Wally Dixon)
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Organization: Data General, RTP, NC
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Keywords: Flaps (forgive me), funny rollout
Summary: 152/Flaps down

>. . .  If you apply full power on a 152 with the flaps full down, you'll
>come right up on the nosewheel.  

Reminds me of a similar incident when I was a student.  Seems as though the
flap switch (the great big kind with the detents at every 10 degrees) had a
case of the stickies when full flaps were used. This happened twice, once
doing T-G's on a 3000 foot grass strip with trees at the other end and once
on a wide open airfield with a 6000 foot runway.  Needless to say, we lived.
The point (which I seem to be drifting away from) is that I've never had
a 150/152 try to dance on the nosegear.  Both full-flap takeoffs resulted in
immediate lifting and a pretty (but scary, in the case of the short field)
straight and level about 10-20 feet off the runway at about 50-60 KIAS (if
that much).  Whatever the airspeed was, fortunately it was enough to clear
the trees!  (No flames about aborting takeoff!  By the time we had realized
what was going on, it was a choice of hitting the trees at the bottom or
at the top).  Anyway, perhaps the nosewheel act was a result of trying to
keep the plane on the ground when the premature takeoff occurred?

				-Just Rambling,
					Wally.