Or overloaded AH1-G going all the way out to the Chup rubber plantation in Cambodia. It's all power to weight ratio relative. All good training for the real thing. The 65-90 hp Continental Air Force, however, can't get rid of much of their weight through fuel burn, spraying, or shooting rockets.

G44 wrote:100 horse Air Force, what a great name for a gaggle of low and slow dudes! Love it!

I remember Bud Davisson or someone calling a similar group the "100 mile-per-hour club".

hotrod180 wrote:I remember Bud Davisson or someone calling a similar group the "100 mile-per-hour club".

100 mph? I wish my O-200 powered ‘65 7ECA would do 100 mph! About 95 seems to be all she’ll do!

But I do like the “100 Horse Air Force” moniker...

Looks like a pretty capable airplane you have there. Thanks for the pics! Happy New Year!

Ron

A couple sight seeing pics while I was waiting for the fog to lift at Weed yesterday (it never did).

Snow situation is pretty dismal around here

Figures.. the only patch of fog I've seen for 200 miles

100 horse air force, awesome!

Not sure if I rate a hat since I only have 65 horses

1.5 hats since you're flying nearly the same weight with less than three fourths the power. That requires about a quarter more energy management.

#simplemath

CamTom12 wrote:#simplemath

Well I guess if I flew the Champ 79% of the time, and only flew the 182 21% of the time I would be right in there.

CFOT wrote:

CamTom12 wrote:#simplemath

Well I guess if I flew the Champ 79% of the time, and only flew the 182 21% of the time I would be right in there.

Nice hat, CFOT. Where did you find it?

Buddy I fly with has it, they had them made up when he was down south. Great aviator, he wears it well.

Champs been down for annual this week, so I did a little more video editing to keep me going.


Couple of Pokey Joe shots

Looking good. Good luck with the annual.

Had some nice flying out on the east side yesterday. It was good to see Blackwater and his nice Husky again!

Sounds like Ry Cooder. Sorta. Nice stuff.

Springtime!!! Yesterday's mission: Wildflowers and waterfalls...


Don't let the little planes fool you, these two have about 90 years of experience between them.

Great pictures! Did you find a place to land near the waterfall?

Working on it. The ground pics were taken by my passenger earlier in the day.

https://youtu.be/VQXnVi_xmqw
Out dialing in the new engine this evening...needs a little twerk on the idle screw, but doing great otherwise.