Seems old cubs never die just go in for rebuild. To bad that doesn't work for old pilots

N7058 pictured here at Alaska Airman's Gathering looks much better then when I flew it 42 years ago.

DonC

No explanation?
I know - most keep saying pictures please, or MORE pictures.

How bouts rounding the post our with some minimal details. Ya know like so-& so's welding sucks etc.

Fans are never happy till they suck ya dry.

I wonder how much of her old bones are original?

I always did think that AST paint scheme was nice!
John

N7058 was the one I customized. When we finally got it back to Anc, Ken Daniels said he threw everything away but the numbers and when he gave it back to me it was the first 180 HP cub in the fleet. What a rocket, I thought, I need to wreck several more of these old worn out cubs.

Flying back to the airstrip with crumpled landing gear, knowing the next landing was going to be a wreck was interesting.

Just goes to show you that you can't keep a good data plate down.

goldfinch wrote:N7058 was the one I customized. When we finally got it back to Anc, Ken Daniels said he threw everything away but the numbers and when he gave it back to me it was the first 180 HP cub in the fleet. What a rocket, I thought, I need to wreck several more of these old worn out cubs.

Flying back to the airstrip with crumpled landing gear, knowing the next landing was going to be a wreck was interesting.

I remember that Chip. Think I was there and recall you did a fine job landing considering the circumstances Think we had similar experience with that plane

It was a dog before they rebuilt it, great plane after. Ken said they never could figure out why it's weight was so much more than any of the other cubs outfitted just the same way.

Yes Don, you were the one who went back to get that hunter off that island I was trying to rescue when I tore off the landing gear.
It was the gear on the same side, I think you must have weakened the gear for me, it couldn't have been that car sized chunk of ice I hit.

Ken Daniels......now there's a blast from the past. Ken worked on my plane after he moved to Kodiak. I flew his 175 with the O 470 some down there.....speaking of rockets.

MTV

mtv wrote:Ken Daniels......now there's a blast from the past. Ken worked on my plane after he moved to Kodiak. I flew his 175 with the O 470 some down there.....speaking of rockets.

MTV

Mike sure u know Ken .... he was just across the ramp in the State Hgr. Sure he and your folks traded parts and equipment and knowledge back in the day There was and unsubstantiated rumor that Ken could magically adjust flanges on crank shafts that may have had prop strikes. But I am sure it was rumor