aktahoe1 wrote:Not really...she finally said yes, so I struck while the iron was hot!
I have come very close to getting a couple of different cubs over the past year or two and they just did not seem wright. With a lot of careful research and time spent, the experimental SQ just kept making more sense.
Yesterday I finally met with Bruce at Backcountry Supercubs and officially made my order for a new SQ2. My buddy here who some of you know ordered one back in December and it was delivered yesterday. He is building his down in Stead. Timing worked out as a fella just backed out on one that has been being and Bruce let me have it. I am having some various mods put into it but delivery date is sometime around July 10. Once received I will start the build thread.
I hope that I am not jumping in over my head as I have never built an airplane but we do have some very good builders here in Truckee that have committed to helping me make it happen.
After speaking with Barnstormer, Randy Goza, Ranchpilot and others this aircraft seems like a build that I can get through. Even more so after seeing how much is completed when the kit arrives. I will hire out the covering to C. King if he wants to do it and Kevin Eldridge seems like the man when it comes to engines. TK Racing does the suspension on the Just Aircraft and did Breedens as well. Seems like a no brainer. The SQ folks are going to start using that fork exclusively as of yesterday it appears and also having the chance to meet them in person with Bruce just made my final decision that much easier.
Anyhow, it's official...I cannot wait to get started.
AKT
Oh, wow - this is going to be fun to watch!
) to major weight savings. There is a certain Zenness (?) to spending time with a Uni-bit and a file. I love studying a flange or bracket, and then making that decision that most of it doesn't have to be there, and getting rid of it. I use the cumulative effect (??) in lightening things up, if you can make it X amount lighter, then multiple X by every time you take off and climb out, pretty soon you have TONS of weight left on the ground, where it belongs. Am I the only one to notice the older pilots by and large, are the most fanatical about weight loss? Older and hopefully experienced enough to fully realize it's benefits. I remember when Pops gave me a tour of his "new" Cub, it didn't take long, not a lot of whiz banggery (???) and gadgetry to it, just a lot of lightness. 
