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Fancy new ski technology

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Fancy new ski technology

That tire is wedged in there like it was a fresh-baked loaf of bread. :wink:

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I wonder how you adjust the DIN setting?
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You get the shock absorbing of the tire also. Looks like a pretty good simple setup, too I bad I need retractable wheel skis where I operate, that's why I have the Datum's.

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Sorry, Zane, but that ain't very new technology. Skis like that were pretty common back in the forties and fifties.......

Some of the Call Air skis attached that way.

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mtv wrote:Sorry, Zane, but that ain't very new technology. Skis like that were pretty common back in the forties and fifties.......

Some of the Call Air skis attached that way.

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Mike, you have to watch closely for the winky, as well as just have a little faith that I know when I've taken a photograph in a museum. :P

This particular ski was attached to a Taylorcraft at Hood River.
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Mike, you have to watch closely for the winky, as well as just have a little faith that I know when I've taken a photograph in a museum. :P



Must've been tough waiting for someone to take the bait!! =D>

Well played :mrgreen:
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This particular ski was attached to a Taylorcraft at Hood River.

The only Taylorcraft that had bungees on the external strut like that is the Model D and L-2 series. That much drag usually has the word Piper written on it somewhere :twisted:
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Ah yeah, my mistake. Not a Taylorcraft, but a Taylor Cub, which is I guess, ancestor to almost everything:

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That looks like a cool museum! I'll have to swing by there next time I'm in the area.
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Good one EZ!

I don't care how old an idea that is, it still looks good to me..... I can see airing down the tire, clamping it in there, and then airing it back up, and it would really be locked in there.

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you have to watch closely for the winky


There are at least a dozen plus joke in that statement..... :lol:

More low hanging....er... fruit....
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