Very nice and my colors!!!!! Looks like the mains will touch first too.

Unusual to see a 1953 180-ish paint scheme on a 182, but it came out looking great, Brian.

I'm curious as to where the Selkirk CF cowling weighs in compared to the stock aluminum?

No levelling of the airplane was needed to establish the CG? The gear configuration just worked out, or were you able to simply adjust the nose gear height for the weigh in?

hotrod180 wrote:Unusual to see a 1953 180-ish paint scheme on a 182, but it came out looking great, Brian.

I'm curious as to where the Selkirk CF cowling weighs in compared to the stock aluminum?

The cowling was about the same weight.. pretty heavy construction and support structure…

Brian


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Pinecone wrote:No levelling of the airplane was needed to establish the CG? The gear configuration just worked out, or were you able to simply adjust the nose gear height for the weigh in?

That photo was taken before we leveled it.. wound up taking just about all the air out of the nose wheel tire.. [emoji23]

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When we weighed our Bearhawk with everything level the tail wheel weight was 75 lbs. When I lowered the tailwheel to the ground and weighed it it was 150 lbs.. I was surprised to see that big of a change but it sure showed how the c of g moves around based on angle. As an experiment later I figured out where the exact cg was and hung a 1/2" nut from a string attached to the ceiling. It was most interesting to watch this plumbob move around with different angles of attack. It also tells you real quick when you don't have the ball centered. It was just a real good visual demonstration of how much the cg moves around under different conditions. The things some of us wonder about!!!

Brian-StevesAircraft wrote:

Pinecone wrote:No levelling of the airplane was needed to establish the CG? The gear configuration just worked out, or were you able to simply adjust the nose gear height for the weigh in?

That photo was taken before we leveled it.. wound up taking just about all the air out of the nose wheel tire.. [emoji23]

Brian


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I hope you added the weight of the removed air back into the final weight, accuracy is everything!

Halestorm wrote:

Brian-StevesAircraft wrote:

Pinecone wrote:No levelling of the airplane was needed to establish the CG? The gear configuration just worked out, or were you able to simply adjust the nose gear height for the weigh in?

That photo was taken before we leveled it.. wound up taking just about all the air out of the nose wheel tire.. [emoji23]

Brian


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I hope you added the weight of the removed air back into the final weight, accuracy is everything!

Yep... added the 0.000109 pounds of air @ -8 inches forward of the datum for an added 0.000000192 inches forward CG difference...

Brian

Brian-StevesAircraft wrote:

hotrod180 wrote:Unusual to see a 1953 180-ish paint scheme on a 182, but it came out looking great, Brian.

I'm curious as to where the Selkirk CF cowling weighs in compared to the stock aluminum?

The cowling was about the same weight.. pretty heavy construction and support structure…

Brian


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Good intel on the cowling weight. Are the Selkirk cowlings actually Carbon Fiber, or are they fiberglass? They used to be fiberglass, I believe.

MTV

mtv wrote:

Brian-StevesAircraft wrote:

hotrod180 wrote:Unusual to see a 1953 180-ish paint scheme on a 182, but it came out looking great, Brian.

I'm curious as to where the Selkirk CF cowling weighs in compared to the stock aluminum?

The cowling was about the same weight.. pretty heavy construction and support structure…

Brian


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Good intel on the cowling weight. Are the Selkirk cowlings actually Carbon Fiber, or are they fiberglass? They used to be fiberglass, I believe.

MTV

They are Carbon Fiber... Dulls a drill real quick... Pretty on the inside too..

Brian.

UPDATE... 2025

So, 4 years after completing this airplane. Reider had to sell due to personal reasons last year. The buyer wound up donating the aircraft to the Jim Richmond Backcountry Aviation Foundation. The foundation has changed the N number and it is currently the grand prize raffle aircraft where you can buy tickets here https://jrbaf.org/raffle/

Kind of an interesting turn of events for the old bird.

--Brian

That’s a capable bird. Thanks for sharing…

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