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If you were going to choose an engine for an experimental Cub project today, what would you go with? This would be a big Cub with 1000 pounds+ useful load. And probably a constant speed prop. I'm thinking a minimum of an O-360. And probably compression in the 8.0/8.5:1 area so that car gas...

I would like to wire a GPS feed from a 796 to a uavionix AV-30-C. The AV-30 requires a RS232 connection which the Garmin provides. A bare wire cradle is available from Garmin and the wiring looks like this The orange or blue whites both provide a RS232 Out. However I happen to have a spare...

Rather than hijack the no-chains thread, I started this one. Courierguy made this comment that prompted this: “I could be fooling myself, wishful thinking, but I think having a steerable tw when on skis lets me make a tighter turn around, when I goose it with stick back and full rudder.” I’d...

My in-laws had this little Coleman stove in their garage and it ended up here from their estate. I cleaned it up and was curious about it not having seen these smaller propane canisters. I wondered if anyone on the site could put a time period on the stove? Her parents were not known campers...

https://theraf.org/news/2018/johnson-moves-after-five-years-raf-director

I've had my transponder antenna in two positions on the bottom side of the fuselage but have moved it because of the addition of a belly pod and a Service Bulletin for a new fuel drain. So now I'm thinking of positioning it out on the bottom side of the wing near the jury strut where there is...

I have a dedicated 3200 tail wheel for Burl’s tail ski. When I put the skis on last month I found my tail wheel needed some maintenance. Not wanting to miss some ski flying time I removed the wheel and made a filler plate from .050” aluminum. I took care care of the wheel problem last week and...

An interesting newspaper article about the airway beacon system and it’s demise. Montana has the remaining beacons in the country and soon there will be just one. This article is about one near Missoula. There were 22,000 in 1937...

After recently rigging my Carbon Concepts board skis I Thought I'd share my technique and where I sourced materials. Both my plane and the skis are not certified so I'm not bound by an STC or Field Approval. I made reference to both 43.13 and Dodge's online ski rigging tips. Both are very...

I'm getting close to pushing out the wheel bearings on the Grove wheels I have the 31s mounted on. I'll get them re-packed and ready to put back on the Cub when ski season is over. But I wondered; why aren't sealed bearings used in these wheels? Sealed bearings are used in many, many other...

I asked this question in the ski dolly thread and got a good answer from cubflier - Jerry. My question though was buried in a reply I'd made and thought I'd start a new thread on the subject. I'm asking for experience with landing and taking off on grass with straight skis. In my area we...

About a year ago I was chewed on a bit by a TSA agent because, unknown to me, I was in the wrong line for passing through security at the airport. She told me that I was Prechecked and should have been in that line. At the time I was ignorant of what Precheck meant but quickly learned I didn't...

A friend and I took my CC EX to Hamilton MT this morning for their pancake breakfast. The food was great and we looked at some neat airplanes including a Corsair, Staggerwing Beech and a Travelair 6000. The Corsair did a couple of low level passes. We thought for a few seconds were on a Pacific...

I wondered if anyone here could help identify an old car on our place? Thanks for any assistance.

http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_dcb8fe6e-5b85-11e3-bdf7-001a4bcf887a.html

I was going to fly the Cessna last weekend until a low battery kept me from starting it. Checking the log book I found the battery had been in the plane since January of 2006 - almost 8 years. I didn't check the logs back to the last time the battery was replaced but I think it was in 1998...

This is completely off topic but knowing vast experiences on here I'm wondering if anyone might be able to give me a Unimog For Dummies lesson on the Mercedes Benz Unimog truck? I'm looking for something that I can put a herbicide sprayer in and spray weeds on our rocky pasture on the ranch...

I got back from a SE Alaska fishing trip yesterday and had to take the Cub out for a short hop this morning. I landed on this gravel bar from left to right. Unknown to me at the time there was a bull moose laying in the little willow patch. I took off from this bar and landed another a little...

For those who donated to the RAF support level in the calendar campaign and are familiar with Ryan Field, owned by the RAF through the generous donation of Ben and Butchie Ryan, here's a picture from the airstrip New Years Day morning 2013. There are new caretakers living there now, as of...

I know some Cub pilots pack a little gas generator for plugging their 120 V engine heater system into. Any suggestions on a model that would be small, light and capable of doing an adequate overnight heat retention duty while on skis? One of the little Hondas maybe? Sent from my iPhone from...