Max Gets His Private Pilots
Some times you have to just have to keep on running and sooner or later you will get where you are going but only to find that you are not at the finish.
Some times you have to just have to keep on running and sooner or later you will get where you are going but only to find that you are not at the finish.
After a 1000 miles one way we picked up a 180 that has been sitting for 10 years. A Montana ranchers plane, he landed where only Buffalo and Indians roamed. The goal is a newly overhauled engine a handful of STC’s and a clean bill of health then back to the prairie.
we just installed a Sportsman cut on a 180, the install always takes me a little more time than I think it will. We always like to do the best job and for that I think it takes us a little longer but I am just super picky about getting the install perfect and it…
Sometimes going fishing in hindsight may not have been the best idea and that branch you decided to hold on to might have not been the best choice. The fateful sound of the crack of that branch was what sent me off a big rock and down a hill that produced 4 broken ribs and…
I do not think there is one part we have not touched on this 180. It is truly a feeling of accomplishment when you bring an airplane back to life and even more when it is a 180. We skipped the paint deciding that the paint could come later the fun part about leaving the…
Fabricated new inspection panels and doublers with the help of my CNC master and local machine shop…
I am healing up but in the time I am out of the shop things still go on….. Max and I decided to leave the bottom end of the O-235 alone and just put new cylinders on the Champ. These cylinders came with the Champ when we bought it and for good reason. You always…