goldfinch wrote:........ Seems like forever when you don't have one to fly while you work.

yeah, but if you did have one to fly, you'd be flying instead of working. A friend of mine fell into that trap, never did finish his homebuilt after he bought a half-share in a Pacer.

Eric

Never had heard of a Condor 150 before this post. Now I sit on the ramp at Twin Falls right next to one! Two flat tires and what appears to be some extensive sheet metal work to the tail. Hasn't been flown in a while it appears. N69043

lowflyin'G3 wrote:Never had heard of a Condor 150 before this post. Now I sit on the ramp at Twin Falls right next to one! Two flat tires and what appears to be some extensive sheet metal work to the tail. Hasn't been flown in a while it appears. N69043

Just did an N# search. It's registered to a guy up in Ketchum.

What had been done to the tail?
I've seen a C150 fitted with a Lycoming (sonebody told me an O-360) which used to be used years ago for glider towing. Had the nickname "mighty mouse" painted on it. Can't remember the details cuz it's been a while & I only gave it a quick once-over, but as I recall it appeared to have an enlarged vertical stabilizer &/or rudder, and maybe a bigger dorsal also. Also had a knobby tire on the nosewheel, which was fitted with some sort of brake. Quite a wierd-looking airplane. I was told it had a restricted airworthiness certificate (or maybe none at all!).

Eric

I was towed off Telluride once with a 180hp 150. I don't remember anything about it, other then the 180hp.

Hotrod,

Friend of mine saw that one too. Said it had an ATV wheel with a disk brake on the nose. But he also said that it had a Canard on the front similar to a Wren 182, but definitely a 150 with 0-360 and a Constant speed prop.

Brian

The one I saw ddn't have a canard, and I think maybe it was a fixed prop. I can't believe there's too many 150's running around with that nosewheel & vertical stab arrangement, though- maybe it was in a "state of temporal flux" (I just watched some old Star Trek time travel DVD's).
It might be a performer, but it sure was butt ugly.

An aerial banner outfit from MO comes down here from time to time, and they tell me that they have a 150/180 back home. I haven't gotten any real details from 'em, but the guy tells me it's a heck of a banner plane.

spacer wrote:An aerial banner outfit from MO comes down here from time to time, and they tell me that they have a 150/180 back home. I haven't gotten any real details from 'em, but the guy tells me it's a heck of a banner plane.

Tom King out of KCNO had several. They do OK. They can't haul the same sign an equally modded cub will (not enough wing) and they are short on fuel, even with the aux tank that resides inside the cockpit. One was sold to an outfit down at KSEE and promptly wrecked killing the female pilot, but it was nothing to do with the plane...
Having said all that, they are a blast to fly without the sign. And I always thought a straight tailed T/W version, would be quite possibly one of the coolest 'one up' back country rides.

Had the nickname "mighty mouse" painted on it

Mighty Mouse belonged to Linn Emrich who owned the Issaquah glider center in the 1970's and early 80's. I towed gliders with it back then, it had a 180hp engine, no electrical system, extended rudder, articulated elevator, nosewheel brake (off of a motorcycle) extended flaps and home made knobby tires. No canard on it.

It would climb at 3000 fpm with no glider behind it. It had a very bright paint job, orange white and black, with pictures of mighty mouse on it.

Linn, who sadly passed away ten years ago, gave me my first flying job when I was seventeen. I remember him joking that if he could fit 230hp under the cowl he would be able to go straight up.

An impressive man and an impressive airplane.

I like it! I just was talking to a guy that was scared to take his 150 to a gravel strip cause he didn't want to damage the prop. Im gonna show him this!

The horse is as only as good as its rider...

Stickman wrote: Mighty Mouse belonged to Linn Emrich who owned the Issaquah glider center in the 1970's and early 80's. I towed gliders with it back then, it had a 180hp engine, no electrical system, extended rudder, articulated elevator, nosewheel brake (off of a motorcycle) extenended flaps and home made knobby tires.......

As far as I know, it's still parked on the ramp at Camano Island airport, home of P.Ponk Aviation. It'd be fun to see it do it's stuff.
Just looked up the tail number, it was re-registered in 2002 to a Thor Emrich of Camano Island and shows an experimental R&D airworthiness status as of 1984. Linn's son maybe?

Thor is Linn's son, the family moved to Camano when the Issaquah airport closed in the mid '80's. It is good to see that the airplane is still in the family. I remember flying with Thor up to Friday Harbor one time, we didn't count on the fuel burn of the big engine. As a precaution we stopped at Arlington on the way back for gas. Of course we had no money, being teenagers.

There was a DC-4 with some folks working around it so there we went. They gave us 10 gallons of gas from the airplane.
Turns out the two guys were Steve Knopp and Tom Anderson. I ended up flying with them both in Alaska several years later!

Small world.