Test Flight In A Lear 25d

[planedr]

I just got back from a flight in one of our planes. Here are a few pictures of The Denver area.

 

The plane

 

the take off

 

urba sprawl

 

Pikes peak in the distance

 

Chatfield resevoir

 

10,000' over Denver

 

Downtown Denver

 

approach to the airport

[Schmids5.3l]

I hate flying...

[HyperBuzzin]

I WANNA BE NEXT !!! Where does the line start ?!

 

Did they get it up to speed? They'll do nearly 600mph, wont they?

[RyanbabZ71]

Cool.

 

What kind of engine does that plane have?

[General Lee 01]

Those are some cool pics.

 

Did you perform a job for the test-flight or were you just along for the ride?

[planedr]

The max cruise speed is mach .82 or about 540 mph at 45,000 ft. The engines are GE CJ-610 turbo jets, they put out about 3000 lbs of thrust each. This plane had a complete hydraulic system failure last Tuesday luckily the gear was down when it happened. A hydraulic fitting broke and it lost all the fluid on takeoff. So I had to replace the fitting and both engine driven pumps. They siezed up and sheared the shafts off of the pumps. Thats one of our medical planes and they had a very sick baby on board so the landing was pretty interesting. No brakes, so they had to use the emergency brakes which are nitrogen activated. The pilots did a good job.

[dajarrel]

I WANNA BE NEXT !!! Where does the line start ?!

 

And Me after him

 

Gosh, How I love to fly!!!!!

 

 

dj