Thanks! CXP is where my Stinson came from, and I would be flying it down. The RV project has been on a 3 year hiatus, but I just put the final screws in some new work benches tonight. Maybe I can get back to it this summer

Do you have anymore details? Contact info, time and location on the airport, etc? This is something I wouldn't mind attending

Hey Chad, no, it's the other purple Mustang at a time when it was between racing canopies :) I did have an encounter with Clay's Mustang when I was about 13 though. My cousin and I had just walked across the runway where we lived (a little 2500' strip) and out of no where, we get a flyby from this p...

Congrats on the ride! So how many Big Beautiful Doll's are there? I understand that the original is in a museum in the UK, and there was the one that crashed a couple years back after the mid-air... Here's a couple of pics of my ride in one from '06: http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/rtripdrive...

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Sweet deal, Bruce! Just gotta keep eyes and ears open, put the feelers out there, and the right deal will present itself

The two things that interest me with the -14 are the more advanced nature of the kit and the added fuel capacity. I added the fuel capacity with the Hotel Whiskey ER tanks, and I think I'm far enough along in my build that I think I'd be going backward starting over, even with a more advanced kit (n...

Wish I were there! Is that the one guy's super 7 behind yours Brian?

I was on the fence about actually getting to go to OSH this year, but other things popped up. No doubt in my mind about WANTING to go though!

Ya'll have fun out there!

Hey Bruce! It's always a moving target at this point, and at the pace I'm going, electric might be the only option by the time I'm ready :wink: Leaning towards a high compression parallel valve IO-360. I'd LIKE to have 200hp at my home airport (4100'), but you never know what will happen until it do...

Thanks guys :) It should make for a good time builder/family hauler. Once I finish my PPL, no more 5+ hour trips in the car to see family or make it to the coast 8) After the kid came along, those trips have been pretty hard on my wife (and therefore, ME). CJ, the paint certainly isn't perfect (some...

Franklin 220 with a CS prop for $15k: http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/rtripdriver/IMAG0932.jpg http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/rtripdriver/IMAG0933.jpg The crazy part, is it came with a flying Stinson 108-1 for no extra charge! :o I found a really good deal on a 1947 Stinson 108-1 and ...

Sure thing! Yesterday he was climbing into it and saying "Keer pop!" I have no idea where he learned that!

Thanks Chad, hopefully we'll have him taxiing around the pits at Reno this year

That is beautiful. Wow. What are the details? Did you do that cowling yourself? John Thanks guys! I got all of the kits they offer (precut wood, etc.), and the nose of the cowl was already pre-shaped and the ribs (63 of them!) for the cowl were precut, but each one still needed to be tapered to fit...

I haven't touched the RV in a few months, and have switched materials from aluminum and rivets to wood and glue. There's no RV grin at the end of this project, but I can't imagine how big the grin will be when it's done! I present to you the "GeeBee Grin"! http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/rtri...

I can't believe I successfully ignored that thread up until now, and just spent a good portion of my morning reading/scanning through it. Sure came across as a "vocal minority" situation to me. I know that I would still plan to attend AV even if someone called for a boycott, and I'm sure I'm not the...

Came across this while entertaining my son yesterday. I thought it had several points we can all relate with

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDzKIireAw

I build skydiving harnesses. I can't say that our jump in orders is due so much to the economy turning around or anything like that, so much as hiring a marketing person. Either way, I'm not complaining!

I'm going to try to be a ray of hope in this thread by saying that my business seems to be growing rapidly this year, and we just moved into a bigger location Now, I just need the bank account to follow suit, and the time to get back to the RV