Pinecone wrote:I’m 6’0” only, but tall torso, short legs. 230#. Fuselage is too narrow. Not enough head room. I sat in one once and couldn’t escape fast enough.

The T8 would certainly have enough room. Awesome airplane!

I’ll see if I can find one in range that I can try on for size. Thanks!

All done. Final step was carving out the detent for the trim, final finish and affixing everything with brass wood screws. glad to be done with this one! Prolly overdid it on this project, but oh well!

You need to get a cable TV show doing this

DeltaRomeo wrote:You need to get a cable TV show doing this

HAHA! You don't want my mug on tv!

This thing is just old school cool. The gas cap has a vent coming out of the top. I was just going to get a new one from Univair. It was kind of a greening brownish color with a bunch of what looked like varnish. Then I looked a little closer and decided to polish it up!






It's the little things!

Jim

Very cool!

That is cool. Never seen a vented cap like that!

MTV

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Still need to pull some tape...

Yur gonna need sunglasses just to do a preflight walk-around, WOW

Pinecone wrote:I’ll see if I can find one in range that I can try on for size. Thanks!

There are a couple T8F projects at my airport (KCCR Concord, CA). One sits outside without engine, the other in the hangar with wings off. Both look whole. Bill told me he had all the parts in the hangar. Said he had STC of Field approval for bigger engine in one of them. (I'm not a Luscombe geek so I don't recall the details) "Projects for retirement" he told me a few years ago with a grin. He's gotta be 85 now...

Finally got all the tape pulled...

Gorgeous!

Love the wind generator!

Fantastic!!!

Got the new leather seats installed today. They are about half the weight of the old ones and they came out pretty good!

So the pilots side window was cracked up and falling apart. Got a new one installed today.