Hello All,

I've been reading this forum for a few months and finally decided to introduce myself and beloved Bo.

I own a 1992 F33A, TT1200hrs, IO-550 Special Ed

Based in Brisbane, on the east coast of Australia.

Been flying for 20 years. PPL. Addicted.

Welcome Steve, beautiful plane you have there! Jump on in, I think you'll find the Aussie contingent here is quite strong!

Hi Steve

VDD looks fantastic!

Regards
Eric Saacks
(addicted too)

So - how do all those single engine Beech a/c get to Australia?

Do they always get ferried over there? I know there are people that do this for a living, but that seems like a lot of open water

I have a client that has had to ferry a lot of GA aircraft back and forth from Asia. They hire a firm that specializes in adding a fuselage tank and flies them accross the Pacific. Check this out, this is an old Aztec they recently ferried to Hawaii (a comfy 13 hour haul)...

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N5541Y

Great to see another Aussie Bonanza.
Nice looking aircraft
Where abouts in QLD are you?

Hello everyone, my name is Kelly McBride. I have about 1400 hours as PIC and the rest of my life I have pretty much wasted. Fortunately, about 900 hours was in a Debonair and another 300 in my beloved V-tail, Baby Doll.

The first time I flew a V-tail Bonanza was at the ripe age of three on my Dad's lap. (1959) I started my flight training at 14 and got my license at 18. Would have had it earlier if it weren't for the small incident taking up a girl on a Student License just before my Private checkride. Dad said I was thinking with the wrong part of my body. Good thing I have a Private Pilot ticket, as that still happens from time to time.

A lot of Beech fellows may have read my story in the ABS Magazine, "Going too Green" in the December, 2007 issue. I have the distinction of being the only Bonanza pilot who has participated in the B2Osh formation flight, but arrived at OSH in a Hyundai after unsuccessfully trying to harvest corn for the ABS Barbeque. Probably won't try that again.

The good news is that I will definitely be at Oshkosh this year, and Baby Doll is looking better than ever. The good thing about having your V-Tail totaled, is that upgrading is easier when the airframe is in pieces. We have rebuilt the plane better than new, with every goodie available, from turbonormalizing, tip tanks, new glass, speed brakes, new paint, and a new prop. I am now finishing the interior with Irish burl accents and some other enhancements that are state-of-the-art. The panel has an EHSI, MFD, 530W, dual AI, and glass engine monitor.

Hello Steve

Your F33 looks very nice. What happened to the G36??

Regards

David

Agreed!

Welcome Kelly, good to see you sign up. If I can figure out how to get to Oshkosh I'll look you up.

Thank you, Jeff. I got to meet Alejandro and Mike at the San Luis Obispo fly-in recently and it motivated me to log in to BeechTalk. Like they said, it is comforting to know that there are others with my affliction.

I am off to Groveland today to meet with Tim Hallock of Aviation Design who is doing the interior renovations. Here is a panel shot meanwhile. We are still working on the photos for the upcoming ABS Plane of the Month feature.

Kelly,
Welcome back. You may recall talking to me at Osh after your atypical arrival. Recall Terry Brown and I know each other, and our airplanes had the same IA. Here is a picture of it at RFD, on Saturday morning. May be one of the last in its old configuration. It certainly looks very nice now. Did you get rid of the radar dish in the leading edge?

Kelly,

Welcome!

Wow, what a nice Bonanza. I consider mine to be in the top ten per cent of all V-tails in appearance, panel, etc. but you've established a new level. From the hundreds of V-tails I've seen this puts you at the top of the One Per Cent Club.

John Bailey,

You have a beautiful, nice Bonanza.

Didn't mean to slight you on the overall appearance/panel/interior of your Bo with my post to Kelly. 'Looks like you're in the One Per Cent Club too.

Welcome to BeechTalk.

Hello, John:

Say hi to Terry for me and thank him again for selling me his airplane.

As a part of the restoration, we rebuilt the entire left wing and most of the right that had the radar. As you may know, the RCA unit is pretty much useless and failed on the second flight after I left Indiana with the plane, so I had removed it previously and had planned on re-doing the leading edge anyway. During the crash, the corn stalks beat in the front edges and because they were 9' tall, they whipped back to dent the rear skins also. This gave me a chance to install speed brakes, add tip-tanks, re-do all of the wiring in the wings, put in new fuel bladders and fuel lines. We also overhauled the landing gearbox, put in new flap actuators and motor and anything else associated with the wings. We also spent a lot of time to perfect the rigging so that the plane would fly perfect.

Pretty much the same with the nosebowl and everything firewall forward that was reviewed for form and function, including new primary wires, and a new brake fluid reservoir. (It had a small dent from a careless mechanic.)

Thank you, Max, for your kind comments. Given the depth of the restoration, I think Bonanza lovers will appreciate that we spent a lot of time and money to try to make this plane better than new.

LOL, no worries Thanks for the compliment. I'm having fun and going faster.