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The Red River is pretty much all sand, some of it very soft. There are some good spots north of Gainesville, nothing much east of Lake Texoma. The Red has been up lately from the rain in the Panhandle. It can take a while to dry out once the water level drops. Quicksand happens. Get bigger...

One thing I realized climbing into a Stearman is that they were designed for 18 year old students and their 20 year old instructors. Stay flexible.

https://texastaildraggersinc.com/ I've heard good things about her. I spoke to her last year when I needed a Stearman checkout, but never made it down there. You're not going to get much warmer than Houston.

This is the neighborhood playground

The thing that people don't think about with snap rolls is that if you do a snap that gives you 4 Gs in the cockpit, the outer wing attach fitting is seeing 6 or 7. A lot of Pitts flown in airshows have trouble in that area. The way the wing attach fittings are in a Cub, snapping it would not...

There are more than a few airplanes out there with rippled fabric and tweaked rear spars from people who think they're as good as Bob Hoover.

I've flown more aerobatics than just about anything else, but I don't do it in my Super Cub. It's not what it's made for, it's not what it's good at. The FX3 has nice, light, responsive ailerons that practically beg to be thrown around, but the plane was engineered to eliminate weight excess...

Maybe he just needs an elephant

Each one gets an aluminum bar and a big bolt.

I have a Dodge tail brace welded in the back and clamp two or three sledgehammer heads on it when I want to run the cg back. I could've used diving weights, but I already had the hammers.

Put the Surefly on the right and remove the jumper on the back of the start switch so the right doesn't get grounded during start.

My plug rotation scheme got tanked with the Surefly when I opened up the plug gap. They say you can run up to .032. I don't think a standard mag will fire that reliably.

It took 6 16g cartridges to inflate a 31 to 5 psi. SP got to test it on the way to OSH last year when a valve stem crapped out.

We flew down to a lake southwest of Ft Worth. Clouds were forecast to be a problem, but it broke out nicely for totality.

You know someone wants to see how it flies

Progress has stalled. Too many projects.

Yup, I seen it

I have the 788 cam with 35º overlap. The project came with a very nice custom exhaust, we'll see how it works.

I recently bought a project that came with a DDM O-201 with, as mentioned earlier, sparse documentation. I called Don's for some info and was told it has an O-200 crank, C-85 pistons and C-90 cam. He said the important thing with this engine is that it breathes properly. In addition to a good...

It'll be fun shrinking the fabric evenly and keeping the ribs straight after gluing.