The International Cessna 170 Association

I'm sure all of us would like to see the pictures.

The baggage area is from Selkirk, it's fiberglass and is just for light bulky items. by the time the job was done the cost was 10 AMU's. Having the baggage door was a big help.

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If I can figure out how to post pictures I have a bunch, mine is still in the hangar being put back together.

Since I bought 2390D April of 2011. I've repitched the prop from 53 to 51 Mcfarland air box kit, spin on oil filter,jasco alt,ponked the new 180 gear, installed 800x6 on new cleveland wheels and brakes, new style tail wheel bracket( fish mouth)Bas tail handels, new elt, extended baggage area, baggag...

I talked with Jim Hayton in June and at that time he had a set of old style 180 legs. I don't have his # but it is here on the forum.

John you are very lucky to still be with us thanks for sharing your thoughts, it will take a very long time, if you ever can heal from this.

Another use for duct tape. Apiece across the top and bottom latch and it won't open in flight, any adhesive left on the cowl comes off with goof off.

Those were the days before coefficients of friction, boundary layers, area design, and coke bottle effect. It was just being a good stick and PFM. He didn't know what he designed it just looked like a bird.

You can go to skytamer.com and work your way thru the pages. I tried my N# and it came up with my name.

Louis Bleriot July 25th 1909, Model XI. Might want to google that .

excellent book for lite reading. FLY THE WING for Naval aviators.

I might be having a senior moment, but turning radius is turns on the ground taxying. Which a tail wheel would turn in a tighter circle. Is the wing span of a 175 greater than that of a 170? On floats it shouldn't make any difference.

One of our new pilots in the bird dog unit decided the only way to stay cool in his two piece nomex was to run one piece of flex hose off of each vent, one he stuck in his shirt the other in a pant leg. The second day out he flew through a swarm of bees, that was the end of his air conditioning.

Operating out of confined areas, short strips, high density altitudes, barriers at the strip's end, with a sixty year old airplane with non self sealing tanks that aren't rupture proof doesn't sound all that safe to me either. Using a modern self sealing rupture resistance bladder secured in the bag...