rw2 wrote:

Rezrider wrote:That looks like a nice spot to hang out.
I'm still planning on heading down to Zih towards the end of the month.

I have to go to the US the 23rd - March 1st. I suppose that's when you'll be in Zihuatanejo?

yip, bad timing!

Afton Wy., and back for breakfast, and what may be some of my last of the (poor) season off airport ski landings. Then once again over the new CAT equipment shop going up a few miles from my place. That's I-15 right south of Pocatello. These boys are hitting it hard, (pun intended I guess), that is all lava rock they are building on, nothing has been easy there. Lots of wind also, right by the Portnuef Gap, a natural venturi. I sent this picture 55 minutes after I took it, man I love the internet and digital photography! We'll see if I get any crane work on this project out of this, I think they will use really big cranes for the tilt up concrete, and reach forklifts for the smaller stuff. That's cool, and appropriate, but if they have a need for my sized crane work I'm pretty sure I'm in. Really, it's just another excuse to go flying

Put all the Park Rapids pics here (10 pages! yikes!):

http://www.supercub.org/photopost/showg ... p?cat=1237

Me likey!!!

BRD wrote:

oops

BRD wrote:

"You're too close!!!"

Great pic BTW.

Nice photos BRD!

Is that a flapless Super Cub? What's up with that? At first I thought it was a PA-11, but I checked that N# and it shows PA-18. It even says Super Cub 95 on the cowling. Were the early -18's flapless?

Zzz wrote:Is that a flapless Super Cub? What's up with that? At first I thought it was a PA-11, but I checked that N# and it shows PA-18. It even says Super Cub 95 on the cowling. Were the early -18's flapless?

Yes, I believe all the early PA-18-95s had no flaps.

Helps to have an L series lens that can reach out there with clarity.

Yes, the PA-18 "95" is flapless. They were the first produced and then continued alongside the follow-on 105/125/135/150 series until the early 60's (61 maybe? Rory's PA-18-95 is a 1960 model.)

The front end of the airframe and the cowling is different from the other models (to handle the C-90.)

The PA-18-95 came stock with only 1 fuel tank. You could order them with an optional electrical system/starter and two fuel tanks. But the best fliers with the baby motor were as light as possible.

The 105T "Tango Cub" (CAP etc trainer) was also flapless from the factory. It used the same cowling as the later model Cubs.

More from Central Oregon:
(Zane: How do you add the embedded captions again? I've been experimenting but can't figure it out.)

Nice pictures Alex!

I think it's the imgcaption tag, but I couldn't figure it out either.

BRD wrote:Helps to have an L series lens that can reach out there with clarity.

Yes, the PA-18 "95" is flapless. They were the first produced and then continued alongside the follow-on 105/125/135/150 series until the early 60's (61 maybe? Rory's PA-18-95 is a 1960 model.)

Also, I'm under the impression that the PA-18-95 type certificate does not allow for the addition of flaps, where the 105 does. A friend up here did a considerable amount of research trying to legally add flaps to his 95 and couldn't make it happen. In the end decided that a SC with flaps was less suspicious than without...

BRD wrote:.......The 105T "Tango Cub" (CAP etc trainer) was also flapless from the factory. It used the same cowling as the later model Cubs.

A friend of mine has a tango cub, so-called because the tail number on all of them ended in T. An interesting tidbit is that the military ordered them for (civilian / pre-military) trainer duty and apparently specified toe brakes. Lyc O-235 powered, the cowl may be the same as later model Cubs but it uses a rectangular air cleaner not a round one.

unfortunately no pictures, but logged an awesome 1.5 working on slow flight, stalls and steep turns working on my TW skills in a Citabria 7KCAB.

beautiful day doing steep turns around a point. that point happened to be the 17th hole at pebble beach.

watching all those fat rich a*$holes chase a stupid white ball around made me realize how much better my life is than theirs.

a good day indeed.

Mojave Flyer wrote:......watching all those fat rich a*$holes chase a stupid white ball around made me realize how much better my life is than theirs.....

Know what's funny? They were probably looking up at the rich a*$holes in the fancy airplane and thinking the same thing.

hahaha. you're probably right!

For Valentines day I'm going to try and get my mistress out of the hangar and ride her around for a while. My wife actually encourages this type of cheating. I'm always in better mood when I come home...