What do you do when someone years ago hacked a hole in your floor?
Fabricated new inspection panels and doublers with the help of my CNC master and local machine shop…
This Cub was built by a friend of mine who has built at least 10 cubs, he is getting along in years and this will be his final build. I am in the process of doing the final inspection, tweaking this and that. I rebuilt the engine a few years ago, a C-85-F, we weighed…
Repairing a Beaver horizontal stabilizer, opening up a can o worms
Max and I flew the 170B all the way out to Oshkosh arriving Sunday as Oshkosh just turned Marginal VFR because of smoke. It seems that there was 1500 airplanes waiting for the same thing, it was truly a zoo, we were turned around twice with the instructions to go back to Endeavor and start…
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.
Bringing in the new year with a 182 firewall repair, not for the light of heart. The weather has been snow and ice here and has slowed all incoming parts and slowed the progress down in the mean time we are hard at work on our new project….a 180J
Busy as always, I have the 182 flying and the kids are, as I was told ?flying the shit out of it?, what ever that means. I guess I do know what that means is my gas bill is only going up. Also have the Champ in the hanger getting its first annual in 18…