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IN CELEBRATION OF OUR 20TH YEAR SPECIALIZING IN MOONEY AIRCRAFT; Get your BRAND NEW PRE-PUBLISHED BOOK AVAILABLE FOR YOU NOW! "THOSE MOONEY AIRPLANES" by Richard Zephro; studying the Mooney since 1974; 38 year private pilot/owner of Mooneyland and author of the articles within this website. FLYING IS NOT CHEAP! Within this book we will discuss not only how to save money while owning your own airplane, we will discuss ways to save big bucks on purchase, ownership, maintenance, appearance (lipstick), and upgrades. Further; we will discuss matters of safely operating your prized BIRD, why Mooney is the safest (by far) in its class, and aid in the pure FUN of owning your own airplane. BOOK INCLUDES 25 CHAPTERS OF INFORMATION FOR MOONEY ENTHUSIASTS, OWNERS, AND ASPIRING OWNERS OF MOONEY AIRCRAFT IN PARTICULAR, APPLICABLE TO ALL AIRCRAFT OWNERS IN GENERAL AND INCLUDES 100 HOUR/ANNUAL INSPECTION GUIDE AND ALL ABOUT MOONEY AIRCRAFT; HOW TO KEEP THEM SAFELY FLYING (ON THE CHEAP) DO IT YOURSELF STUFF, WHAT TO WATCH FOR, AND INCLUDES 124 FULL SIZE PAGES OF INFORMATION AND PHOTOS. (Includes some reprints and references from Mooneyland and tons of NEW information at your fingertips)            2 NEW CHAPTERS JUST ADDED: "HOW MUCH DOES IS COST TO OWN AN AIRPLANE" and "MEMOIRS OF A MOONEY BUYER".

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Weight lifter Strength in the Mooney Airframe

While flying out of San Antonio (SAT) to Midland, Texas to show a Mooney 201, the air traffic controllers vectored me directly into a huge thunderstorm, which I penetrated at 4,000'. 

In what seemed like a few seconds later, I was catapulted at around 10,000' out the side of the storm. I think that flight made me about 2" shorter due to the G forces, and the 201 had stretch rivets all along the spar, as well as the roof of the fuselage. All the paint popped around the rivets and they had to be re-struck. 

My scariest close call happened at Comfort Airpark in the Texas Hill Country. The wind was whipping about head to tail that day. As I lined up for this turf strip cut out of the trees, I crossed the fence. Just then, the wind switched from a headwind to a tail wind- WIND SHEAR! 

I still felt I could make the landing okay, as the speeds in the Mooney 231 were just right. As I sat down on the mains, a huge buck deer darted out from the trees at a course trajectory guaranteeing impact with the plane. 

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I had no choice but to apply full-power, and rotate early to avoid the huge animal. Having now a tail wind, which causes airplanes to perform terribly in taking off, here came the trees. 

I banked sharply, knife-edging the wing through the air that separated the trees, but failed to see the large dead branch, which I hit with huge force. 

Turning the Mooney 231 left and downward toward the ground, I pulled with all my might and recovered to a positive, but agonizingly slow rate of climb at about 6' above the ground (AGL)!. 

I could not understand why I had so little control over the flight until I had enough altitude to look out to the left wing. From about six feet inward from the tip, the leading edge of the entire area was pushed back right up against the spar. It was like trying to fly with a barn door for a wing. She lumbered and lumbered as I nursed her over to Kerrville, TX having declared an emergency.

I purposely came in fast, as I didn't know where the wing would stall at in its condition. As the speed bled about 3' above the ground (AGL), she sat right down at normal landing speed. I taxied over to Dugosh Aircraft, and Ronnie Kramer was outside to meet me with a huge smile on his face.

I asked why the smirk? He said that had I impacted in that fashion with any  airplane other than a Mooney, the wing would have snapped right off. We later found that two wing skins, wing tip, aileron, and two stringers had to be replaced, but the wonderful Mooney spar was unaffected by the impact. 

Why do we specialize in Mooney's when there is money to be made in other brands?

 Because I would have to fly the other brands!

 

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