Meyers Aircraft Owners Association | Donald Shipp | Activity https://www.meyersaircraft.org/members/otwin/activity/ Activity feed for Donald Shipp. Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:11:09 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 fd8ed963ac3296b363a9f92115fa057f Donald Shipp replied to the topic Reasonable Crosswind Limitations for an OTW on pavement? in the forum Airframe - Meyers OTW http://www.meyersaircraft.org/forums/topic/reasonable-crosswind-limitations-for-an-otw-on-pavement-2/#post-1048 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:53:04 +0000 Mr. Jones,

Thank you for the guidance in June. At this point, I have given dozens of rides, and I am gaining some level of competency concerning crosswind landings. I still don’t know an absolute personal crosswind limitation, but that is probably a good thing. I continue to fly it on days with a safety margin.

I have had occasions where it…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d4f9622de8d0211ebc7e21ae328c8e1 Donald Shipp replied to the topic in the forum http://www.meyersaircraft.org/forums/topic/reasonable-crosswind-limitations-for-an-otw-on-pavement/#post-1799 Sat, 10 Jun 2017 13:42:00 +0000 Mr. Jones,

Thank you so much! Any information is appreciated. I have never bent an airplane, and I hope that I never do. This airplane was previously owned by the now deceased Tom Doherty for 50 years who was my first flight instructor. Tom was in WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam. He flew P-51s out of St. Paul, MN for 1,000s of hours, and he once…[Read more]

]]> 0 c7700753950f6f158e7f990b725bed87 Donald Shipp started the topic in the forum Airframe - Meyers OTW http://www.meyersaircraft.org/forums/topic/reasonable-crosswind-limitations-for-an-otw-on-pavement/ Thu, 08 Jun 2017 21:13:14 +0000 My Dad owns an OTW that is recently restored. It was restored because a previous partner severely ground looped it and tore off the landing gear. It took years to rebuild. I flew it about 10 hours last summer and have not landed it on pavement as of yet. I have over 1,000 hours of tail wheel time, and over 20,000 hours of total flight…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8abae17a309ffbe8348c0369c6b7344 Donald Shipp became a registered member https://www.meyersaircraft.org/activity/p/624/ Thu, 08 Jun 2017 18:40:15 +0000 0