Great work, on both the plane and the video. First class job.

It can be such a long road to get them flying again. I wanted to cheer out loud when it broke ground for the first time!

Thanks for all the nice comments guys!

Yes, final assembly has been @ my place of work, Kenmore Air Harbor (S60) where there is no airstrip anymore. SOP for launching wheel-planes is a barge trip down the lake to KRNT.

Motorcycle is a R90, 1975. 40k trouble free miles over the last 10 years. Just out of frame is a 1975 MotoGuzzi T3, which is the next project to finish.

maules.com wrote:Cubcruiser,
looks like you are set up for hill side landings. ???

Looks like nobody's in the plane either. Huh?

Congratulations on the first flight, Sam, looking good. I don't recognize the grass strip at the end of the video, I assume it's around Puget Sund somewhere?

hotrod150 wrote:Congratulations on the first flight, Sam, looking good. I don't recognize the grass strip at the end of the video, I assume it's around Puget Sund somewhere?

Evergreen Skyranch (51WA)

[quote="hotrod150"][quote="maules.com"]Cubcruiser,
looks like you are set up for hill side landings. ???[/quote]

Looks like nobody's in the plane either. Huh?[/quote]

Beyond curious, whats the story Cubcruiser/ Pilot in baggage and different size tyres ?

My desert cub warming her bones as am I since I moved out of AK temporarily...

well after scrolling threw 29 pages of porn really! this isnt going to seem very exciting, but it is however the love of my life thus you will be bombarded with way to many photos of her! Tell you what though the most amazing plane to fly. it has taught me more about flying than any other aircraft i have flown. plus its my first i own so a definite a soft spot there to! and for icing on the cake i can afford both it AND A WIFE! thats right boys it can happen! just give me your 180's, maules and super cubs and you can have this oppertunity to!

Back a ways when I was much younger......I had the opportunity to spend some time with Bernard Pietenpol . I was living out in the country by Cherry Grove. One day as I was out feeding cattle I heard this spudder and coffin engine....like and old model T.....I was looking down the road trying to see something when ol Bernard came over about 5 feet above the trees in a "Home Made Pusher" it didn't have a second seat or I would have been in it............way cool , please post some more pictures when you can and enjoy.

Sam Hale, do you live on 51WA? If so we might have a friend in common...

O, and Sam, that is one sweet looking plane! I envy you for being able to make such a thing of beauty with your own hands!

Willamette International, somewhere in the Pacific NW.

This is such a cool thread. Man, you guys have some absolutely beautiful planes!

Here is what used to be my Stearman:



Smoke on!



High speed low pass:



And some formation flying in Holland with some of my Stearman buddies:



And here is my other flying machine. True backcountry: hike up a mountain, soar ridges, ride thermals and land in someones back yard. True STOL!

Little John wrote:

Willamette International, somewhere in the Pacific NW.

7GCB? I'd like some more pics and details..

Also curious little john, what kind of STOL fences? Also, do you have a cuffed leading edge?

Lotta cool stuff on this thread!

Here is my box of aluminum and rivets...

chosstronaut wrote:Lotta cool stuff on this thread!

Here is my box of aluminum and rivets...

nice plane, i love its simplicity, is that th 701 or a savannah

The old 170 good for getting a guy and his girl (and two dogs) around Alaska. Also, gets the meat from the field to the freezer just fine. I wish i could visit all the places in these photos.

Paul

DrifterDriver wrote:nice plane, i love its simplicity, is that th 701 or a savannah

Thanks, it is a Savannah. I wish I could take credit for building it, but my friend and I bought it from the builder with about 600hrs on the Rotax 912.

After 6 years of building it is ready to fly! We will be putting it on Clamar 2500 amphibs this spring, adding some droop tips and vinyl.
Cam