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Homebuilt Float Plane
Got to fly a homebuilt Challenger on floats while up in northern
Minnesota for the crop dusting season. What a kick! I hadn't been on floats for 35 years and finally got to add one more hour in the SES column. Also managed to put in over 450 hours in helicopter spraying in less than 4 months. Anyone else had any experience with the little Challenger? Like a little toy and certainly took some adjusting after such intense time in helicopters. SelwayKid |
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There were three Air Creation floatplanes at the Greenville ME fly-in last weekend. They'd flown up from Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire with one stop at a marina for autogas. On 23 Sep 2005 19:04:06 -0700, wrote: Got to fly a homebuilt Challenger on floats while up in northern Minnesota for the crop dusting season. What a kick! I hadn't been on floats for 35 years and finally got to add one more hour in the SES column. Also managed to put in over 450 hours in helicopter spraying in less than 4 months. Anyone else had any experience with the little Challenger? Like a little toy and certainly took some adjusting after such intense time in helicopters. SelwayKid -- all the best, Dan Ford email (put Cubdriver in subject line) Warbird's Forum: www.warbirdforum.com Piper Cub Forum: www.pipercubforum.com the blog: www.danford.net In Search of Lost Time: www.readingproust.com |
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My float plane is under construction. I finished riveting a flap and an
aileron today. Mike MU-2 wrote in message oups.com... Got to fly a homebuilt Challenger on floats while up in northern Minnesota for the crop dusting season. What a kick! I hadn't been on floats for 35 years and finally got to add one more hour in the SES column. Also managed to put in over 450 hours in helicopter spraying in less than 4 months. Anyone else had any experience with the little Challenger? Like a little toy and certainly took some adjusting after such intense time in helicopters. SelwayKid |
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In article et,
"Mike Rapoport" wrote: My float plane is under construction. I finished riveting a flap and an aileron today. Mike, are you planning on statically balancing your ailerons? |
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Mike Rapoport wrote:
My float plane is under construction. That's the Moose, right? George Patterson Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks. |
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I am building the airplane as close to how Mr. Murphy intended as I can.
The ailerons are over-balanced with the standard weights. Of course they aren't painted yet but I think that they will be overbalanced after painting too. Since the weights are in a spade, they aren't very heavy and I will probably just leave them as-is Mike MU-2 "john smith" wrote in message ... In article et, "Mike Rapoport" wrote: My float plane is under construction. I finished riveting a flap and an aileron today. Mike, are you planning on statically balancing your ailerons? |
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Correct. I am just getting rolling. I have completed the seats, airlerons
and flaps. Learning new things every day.. Mike MU-2 "George Patterson" wrote in message news:TNoZe.4416$L15.936@trndny01... Mike Rapoport wrote: My float plane is under construction. That's the Moose, right? George Patterson Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks. |
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Thee's a local guy here(6S3) who has two of them, both on wheels. One
has the IO-540 in it and is completed and flying. The other is still under construction and will have the Russian radial. Neat looking airplanes, big inside, but slow. Mike Rapoport wrote: Correct. I am just getting rolling. I have completed the seats, airlerons and flaps. Learning new things every day.. Mike MU-2 "George Patterson" wrote in message news:TNoZe.4416$L15.936@trndny01... Mike Rapoport wrote: My float plane is under construction. That's the Moose, right? George Patterson Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks. |
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I just read about the Moose in a Flying Mag. Holy Smokes I live only 20
miles from CYCW and I didn't even know the plane was built there. Looks like it would be a lot of fun building one of those! "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message nk.net... Correct. I am just getting rolling. I have completed the seats, airlerons and flaps. Learning new things every day.. Mike MU-2 "George Patterson" wrote in message news:TNoZe.4416$L15.936@trndny01... Mike Rapoport wrote: My float plane is under construction. That's the Moose, right? George Patterson Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks. |
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