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Robert, you most likely know this but with a fixed pitch prop your mixture setting has no bearing on speed unless your losing RPM which is the only speed factor related to the engine. constant speed on the other hand speed will be related to rpm and mixture.

Llooked like the right wing was trying to stall in the first part of the turn and a gust or a lot of rudder brought that back up then maybe the fuselage blocked some of the next gust coming from 90 degrees off his right side and he lost it. It is super scary situation happening very I remember...

hold on there Tex, I have first Dibs on 87D,,,we go back to the beginning her and I.😬

I am with you completely Mike. And many times it’s a bad repair causing different AOI between the 2 sides then corrected and masked by washout which will make it fly hands off BUT look out in a full stall. Dave

I’ve flown that cub when it was based up in the willow area…it’s a well built great flying cub that did great on those tires and hydrasorb gear. I haven’t flown anything newer than Burl’s AOSS so have no opinion except judging from the video the gear is moving a lot instead of the tires taking...

I have pictures of a 180 hp cub that cracked between duel holes on the right horizontal liner tube.Pulling a glider on takeoff the tube let go and the horizontal went wild putting him back into the grass nose down and ended up on its back. Glider pilot released and landed beyond the wreck...

So you have a fuselage that measures 1 degree on the left and the max allowable 2 degrees on the right...this is from the horizontal reference to the bottom of the wing which is about the only easy way to measure a flying airplane without taking it apart.if you rig both wings by the book it will...

Mike there is not much you ever say that I don’t completely agree with on here but measuring back from wings tells you nothing about AOI built into the fuselage which is everything that makes a cub fly like a cub. Even more important than having the correct AOI is having the SAME AOI on both...

You should be able to lose an easy 15lbs at least taking the flywheel, wiring, starter, and battery out. On an engine that has a whopping 7.5:1 compression ratio I count an electric starter as an unnecessary item. no flywheel on the continentals, starter is in the back. Ive said it before and...

The 90 hp Cub I built up had light weight everything, then 3” extended gear,flaps,and a 74” prop. It is a little rocket ship as long as it’s not packing a hugh load and kept up with a whole group of us guys flying around on skis having a blast...or maybe it was blasting things. I did have to...

yes Glen and that’s the way we still fish today Dave

If you still have the old Carb I’d put it back on and see what that does.

Looks like Clint,Lee and Eli,,,,,,,cue the music

Wow how time flys. One thing that’s still the same is the grasshoppers were about as bad this year as back then and will be worse next year so keep the 802 fueled up Mark. Dave

I am with ya Mark, the cool stuff doesn’t seem to be as resistant to ejecting 3” mag empties bouncing off it. I guess I will never be cool but I hate things that are always needing a software update or give a different reading every startup, all I want is reliable info.

Where in Nebraska Mark? Permanent move or spraying? Dave

Crash Jr. i agree on the small tires but this 18 has a special mission and will only fly off pavement and needs 500 lbs of useful load with a couple hrs of fuel in Utility category. If Crash is your Dad I sure miss him here, he always had good constructive info to post, I’m sure not the only...

I’m thinking with all the usual beef up mods on a stock piper frame, all the light weight electrical mods now available maybe even a earth x battery, aluminum oil cooler,stock or Sutton exhaust standard length 1.25” FAD gear with hydrasorbs. Stock glass. Borer prop.Either no headliner or maybe...