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Offline tundra_flier

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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #15 on: June 03, 2007, 07:13:11 AM »
Quote from: Zaffex on June 02, 2007, 05:08:55 PM
Didn't we have a pic floating around the forum of a guy hand-propping his aircraft in midair?

Don't know about that, but I don't remember now if it was Bob Hover, or Bob Reeve that he and his partner used to do mid air refueling in their Aeronca, A C-3 if memory still functions this late at night.  One would fly and the other would step out on the strut to pore fuel from a can into the header tank.

I also got to ride with a 7AC pilot on his way to OSH one year who showed me how he transfered fuel.  Apparently the J-3's he was traveling with had just a bit more range.  so he had a can in the back seat and hand pump strapped to the side of the cockpit.  He'd reach through the side window, stick the hose in the header tank, then pump the fuel in.  gotta love those old planes.  ::drinking::

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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #16 on: June 22, 2007, 07:12:54 AM »
Quote from: tundra_flier on June 03, 2007, 07:13:11 AM
Quote from: Zaffex on June 02, 2007, 05:08:55 PM
Didn't we have a pic floating around the forum of a guy hand-propping his aircraft in midair?

Don't know about that, but I don't remember now if it was Bob Hover, or Bob Reeve that he and his partner used to do mid air refueling in their Aeronca, A C-3 if memory still functions this late at night.  One would fly and the other would step out on the strut to pore fuel from a can into the header tank.

I also got to ride with a 7AC pilot on his way to OSH one year who showed me how he transfered fuel.  Apparently the J-3's he was traveling with had just a bit more range.  so he had a can in the back seat and hand pump strapped to the side of the cockpit.  He'd reach through the side window, stick the hose in the header tank, then pump the fuel in.  gotta love those old planes.  ::drinking::

Phil

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Wasn't Bob Reeve, he flew Fairchilds and didn't have any partners...though Don Sheldon WAS his son in law :P
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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #17 on: July 13, 2007, 07:02:54 AM »
This was at the airport awhile ago.  Looked weird from a distance so I went to take a look, has a 55gallon or so tank added on the bottom and several radios.  I found out that the guy that owns it has done just about everything and now does fish spotting in the plane.

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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #18 on: July 21, 2007, 01:16:39 PM »
Quote from: tundra_flier on June 03, 2007, 07:13:11 AM
Quote from: Zaffex on June 02, 2007, 05:08:55 PM
Didn't we have a pic floating around the forum of a guy hand-propping his aircraft in midair?

Don't know about that, but I don't remember now if it was Bob Hover, or Bob Reeve that he and his partner used to do mid air refueling in their Aeronca, A C-3 if memory still functions this late at night.  One would fly and the other would step out on the strut to pore fuel from a can into the header tank.

I also got to ride with a 7AC pilot on his way to OSH one year who showed me how he transfered fuel.  Apparently the J-3's he was traveling with had just a bit more range.  so he had a can in the back seat and hand pump strapped to the side of the cockpit.  He'd reach through the side window, stick the hose in the header tank, then pump the fuel in.  gotta love those old planes.  ::drinking::

Phil

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Can you get an STC for that?
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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #19 on: July 26, 2007, 07:24:24 AM »
They were spotting flying fishes that day ::rofl::
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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #20 on: July 26, 2007, 05:21:03 PM »
Quote from: airtac on July 26, 2007, 07:24:24 AM
They were spotting flying fishes that day ::rofl::

I've heard of rhem killing speedboaters.
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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #21 on: August 22, 2007, 11:39:06 PM »
Actually, I don't think that's damage.  The transition from the leading edge to the tip bow in a super cub is not the most elegant thing.

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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #22 on: August 23, 2007, 12:09:41 PM »
Is it worth just going up in a J-3 Cub?

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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #23 on: August 24, 2007, 11:53:20 AM »
well of course it is always worth going up, but is it worth taking time to tryout a J-3 and see how aviation was?
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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #24 on: October 12, 2007, 01:08:51 AM »
Doggone it!  I can't find that pic of the Super Cub on Tundra Tires with the 50 gallon Propane tank slung below the fuselage.  Gotta love Alaska's exception for external loads!
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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #25 on: October 12, 2007, 03:58:08 AM »
Talk about your external loads....  on airplanes, that is... 

I've heard some wild northern tales of coffins, dead bodies (frozen), and the like.....   ::unbelieveable::

Gotta love Alaska...........   ::eek::
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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #26 on: October 12, 2007, 07:32:27 PM »
Quote from: TheSoccerMom on October 12, 2007, 03:58:08 AM
Talk about your external loads....  on airplanes, that is... 

I've heard some wild northern tales of coffins, dead bodies (frozen), and the like.....   ::unbelieveable::

Gotta love Alaska...........   ::eek::

 ::eek:: ::eek:: ::eek:: ::unbelieveable:: ::unbelieveable::
Are you pullin' my leg 'Mom??? 
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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #27 on: October 12, 2007, 08:45:25 PM »
Quote from: want2fly on August 24, 2007, 11:53:20 AM
well of course it is always worth going up, but is it worth taking time to tryout a J-3 and see how aviation was?

Its worth every penny, Wantofly.  I went up in a J-3 last summer.  I had a blast, and I learned alot.  That is just a doggone fun airplane to fly!
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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #28 on: December 31, 2007, 06:37:36 PM »
last cub i saw was on fire and i had just chopped the tail off to stick it onto a piece of plastic square section drain pipe  ::rofl::  ::rofl::
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Re: Cub Sighting
« Reply #29 on: January 08, 2008, 09:01:36 AM »
I'm getting to see one slowly, very slowly, start to take shape as it is rebuilt here......  yesterday the mechanic was here for more welding...  this will take many months, I'm guessing, but I hope I can see it as it turns back into an airplane.     |:)\
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