The D35 in question HB-EGF seems to have been last seen on the breadcrumb radar sites a year ago going to La Ferté-Alais, it may be around now under an F-reg but haven’t been able to find it. Serial is D3540, there may be an F-reg equivalent of G-info.
There is and it is now F-HIDG.
@Silvaire I agree the early ‘straight’ through F35 are very beautiful pure V-tails. Early in my search there was an HB- reg D35 which was interesting. It went to France but I think you start with a later Bonanza before you graduate to figuring out how you look after the early E-series with an electrical adjustable propeller.
The early series adds some more unobtanium parts to the potential of finding a donor set of clean rudder-vators: electric governor bits, E-series engine overhaul components, plus the need to educating engineers how to look after them.
Nevertheless the early pure Bonanzas are great machines, some with around 1,600 lbs EW giving them Super Cub style power to weight and wing loading not too far off.
There are a few nice ones to look at, several rows like this in the vintage area plus newer ones, but none for sale that I saw… 
I liked this early one.
If I see any particular nice classic Bonanzas at Oshkosh, I’ll post a photo 
I’ll be there tomorrow.
As the usual Bonnie vs Cirrus banter made an appearance I thought this EAA Oshkosh Cirrus ‘streamed’ arrival worth sharing:)
RobertL18C wrote:
Unless there is an installation problem I notice the Bendix King 825 HSI doesn’t auto slew when you select a Localiser
Used to have same problem in my old Mooney, the trick I had is to load ILS from navigator (direct IAF and activate final leg instead of VTF), that would auto-slew my CRS on BK HSI, later on flip GPS/VLOC
My new Mooney has E-HSI and things ‘just work’
I would expect those performance numbers, especially when light with just the pilot on board.
@Boscomantico I need to keep the airframe polished more :)
Am not sure why the IO-550 performs more efficiently than the IO-520, am guessing your power was LOP. Am waiting for the analyser to be rectified so running on the fuel flow indicator.
RobertL18C wrote:
At FL100 it produced 172 KTAS and 13.5 USGPH.
Funny how this is exactly what an NA SR22 with TKS will do at FL100. I normally cruise at 170 KTAS / 13.0 GPH.
I should change the thread as technically I ended buying a forty one year old airframe :)
