hotrod180

A friend of mine used to say this also.... until I asked him why he always wheel lands his Beech 18.

Not necesarily. A year or two ago, I bought something and as requested, paypalled him the money as a "gift to family or friends". I used my credit...

I was just re-reading the beginning of this thread and this caught my eye-- 50 hours time-in-type, wow! My hangar neighbor put his C180 floatplane...

It's not about the arctic, but... Wings of the North, by Dick Turner. He was a trapper & outfitter arund the LIard River country in northern BC in...

If you're talking about the little round "UFO" lights... I removed the 5 take-forever-to-come-on, power-guzzling hallide (?) lights in my 50x50...

Thread drift, and dumb question..... a guy I know who's building a J3 showed me what the "birdcage" is, but he had no idea what the "gingerbread"...

My jump seat belts are only threaded through the "3 bar" in two directions. I can hardly get them loosened up enough to adjust, so I'm not too...

About 10 years ago, a couple of floating bridges here in western WA were replaced. They floated some of the old bridge sections over to Port Gamble...

That pic came up on my FB feed. Here's what went with it.

That's one of my best qualities too. You ever heard of Irish alzheimers? That's when you forget everything except your grudges.

They cooked Martha Lunken's ass for flying under a bridge, I imagine it'd be the same or worse for an unauthorized landing on an aircraft carrier --...

Steve, the last pic looks like your dog is standing off someone approaching with a torque wrench in hand!

A friend i know bought an experimental TruTrak autopilot (don't know which model) several years ago, hoping to bootleg it into his certified Pacer...

FWIW I got talked into helping spread someone's cremains for a shirt tail relative last summer. It turned out to be only a sandwich baggie about...

I know two different skywagon drivers (both good sticks) who ended up upside down on paved runways, they both said that along with goofy winds their...

"He got sucked out of his plane. This happens a lot". ?!?!?

Going from a supercub to a 180 or 185 is "trading down to a geezer's airplane"? Wow.

If it was me, I think I'd buy a Champ or similar to do the t/w training in. Low purchase price, low operating cost, roomy. Also might be a better...

I assume you're talking about Bushliner's purchase of the Cyclone kit business. I'd be more optimistic about that if they'd actually gotten up to...

I'd like to hear more about that!

Good thinking. Cessna indicates about an 8:1 glide ratio, so about 1.5 miles per 1000' of altitude. Of course, that's if you are right on the mark...

A friend of mine went to weigh in a highly modified Pacer that he'd built, no PK screw or screw hole anymore for leveling as per the TCDS. He was...

That's funny to hear you say that. I get chided by some because I do clean & repack the wheel bearings every annual. I don't care to (try to)...

I don't have a fancy panel, so had no qualms about just using a simple electronic label maker. You can buy one for under $40, but a buddy of mine...

FWIW besides the bolt pattern difference between the 1.25" & 1.5: torque plates, I believe there are different offsets available. So the torque...

I dunno how old your battery is, but if it's more than about 5 years old, a new one at around $130 is cheap insurance against problems. Keep the...

Seems like it'd be easier & more convenient to put a safety cage around an aft prop. Much safer than an uncaged front prop. Maybe even uncaged,...

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