Re: Schultz Tailwind N957JL has a new caretaker
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Congratulations on your new plane!
On Friday, March 21, 2025 at 08:36:13 AM CDT, Brian Bird via groups.io <bird3304t@...> wrote:
The?last time I took my wife on a trip in our?Cessna 150, she looked out the?window and noticed that the trucks on the?interstate were?outrunning us. She told me, we?need a faster airplane. When your wife says something like that you?don't want to miss out on that opportunity! So we purchased a W-10 from the estate of the late Robert Schultz in Houston. After a few days of poking and prodding, etc, we got the engine up and running and taxied the airplane to make?sure that?the brakes and steering?were?good. I didn't want to fly it for the first time in a 15 kt crosswind. Yesterday, the wind was more down the runway, so I took it out for its first flight in 5 years. After about a half hour of checking the flight characteristics, I made three touch and go's. Other than my first bouncy landing, everything worked perfectly. After checking things over carefully, I loaded up and took her to its new home in Kansas.
Taking off out of west Houston, I initially climbed to 6500' and found that the groundspeed wasn't much over 100 kts. They were forecasting 35 kt headwinds, but at that altitude it was closer to 50 kts. So I dropped back down to 4500' and picked up about 20 kts of groundspeed but had a much bumpier?ride. I made a fuel/potty stop in Rockwall just east of the DFW area. The second leg into Kansas went much faster with ground speeds in northern Oklahoma showing more like 150 to 160 kts.
I'm going to need to do a few more T &G's to get comfortable with landing this airplane (the ground is a lot closer than the Airtractor that I'm used to flying), but it seems to run and perform well. One thing's for?sure, my wife won't be complaining about being passed by a truck on the freeway!
Brian Bird N957JL
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