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Yeah..... my simple fabric and paint ended up at $110K. After about the 3rd phone call saying " Hey, we found (whatever)" I told them just rip it down to the bones and build back from the ground up. I'm going to own it until I die so let's do it right,.

Thank you. I always wondered about the reasons behind it. It can be considerably thinner due to the inherent strength of the corrugations but it must use roughly twice as much linear feet.

Does anybody know what effect the corrugated skin has on the performance of a given airfoil? I always wondered about that.

Hey George, is this that "new math" I keep hearing about? :-P

Ralph just happens to be the fellow I bought my 12 from, so I get to pick on him a bit.

Gummer? Speak for yourself. I still have my teeth.

Surely you jest.

As much as I loved and respected my Dad and his flying abilities, he was certain the devil lived in the back half of the CG envelope. I personally prefer how most A/C fly in the more aft region.

Blue is the softest of the Lock-Tites and a good choice for small machine screws. Red is next and green is for all of time. Red on a smaller screw usually requires heat to remove without breaking the screw unless you apply heat. On a fuel valve that might be questionable.....

If you put bottled beers in an icechest a day early, the labels soak off pretty good yet retain a film of the adhesive on the back. You can peel them off neatly and stick them on the side of the airplane, truck, etc. like fighter pilot kills. Don't ask how I know this. It seemed like a good idea...

Love it!

138 for me. About two weeks ago I flew it backwards at 8mph.

Interestingly enough, I just talked to an employee of LyCon about this conversion. I was considering buying a used O320-A2B for a core to send them in order to build me an 8.5 engine. He told me in order to be certified it had to start life as a wide deck. He then offered to sell me a core.

I want to build one of those.

Let's see, he thinks he has a grounding problem and has a set of jumper cables.... shouldn't be too hard to figure out. Oh well, I'm sure the mixture and carb heat cables will do just fine.

Same here, censorship and privacy concerns. Facebook can kiss my a**. Deleted my account.

Maybe the prop strike WAS the shock load test. It ran afterward so it passed the test, right.....?

I only have one complaint with Mogas, it doesn't SMELL like an airplane. Frankly it kinda stinks. I got my SES in a plane on Mogas, and a couple times while taxiing downwind it got rather rank in the cabin.

All the little Lyc's/Cont's were designed to run on 80/87 so I don't see 90 Mogas being any kind of an issue (assuming no ethanol) with mags set to spec. They actually lose power and run slightly hotter on 100LL due to the slow burn of the high octane fuel. On my O-320/150 (using 100LL) I have...

A heavy airframe compensated for with a heavier engine equals a heavy airplane. It's power-on performance will obviously equal a stock built machine, but it's low speed, power off performance will suffer. Too many Cubs get turned into sleds.