I'm currently working on posting a photo of my plane. I'm having trouble with Imgur.com where I have posted photos for forums before. Their mobile site dose not work well and my IPad will not go to their full site. I get home from work tomorrow and will post a photo then. That should answer the Red Green thing.
My mixture has the metal spring clip on the panel. As in Bruce's photo. It looks original as it is the same faded color as the other nobs. It might be a kink in the cable, notching as it moves in the sheath. How do you distinguish a ratcheting from smooth cable?
Bruce I'm a utility guy and currently work for Erickson Air Crane. I mostly do wild-land fire fighting work. For Erickson I fly the Skycrane, but most of my time is in Bell mediums and Astars.
Bruce, you gotta catch em while you can We can have a Oregon convention even if there are a lot of red planes, and blue, and brown, polished, GREEN, etc.
Well here it is. Thanks to Aryana for instructions on direct photo posting.
It's got a history. Rebuilt twice, once in the early 50's and again in the 70's. But it's airworthy and paid for. And it is red so it's got to be fast!
Nice bird! You'll enjoy and learn lots - both from the flying and from this group. Of course we're a bit skewed in our thinking based upon the interaction of another roto-wing flyer in this group!
Now - if you'd only been smart like me and bought a blue/gray airplane you could have avoided all that red/green guff!
Glad to have you aboard!
Kyle
54 B N1932C
57 BMW Isetta
Best original 170B - Dearborn, MI 2005
Kyle, when I see a picture of your fine looking grey/white plane first thing that comes to mind is I must be looking at a B&W image of a nice GREEN 170.
CAUTION - My forum posts may be worth what you paid for them!
Bruce Fenstermacher, Past President, TIC170A
Email: brucefenster at gmail.com
Well here it is. Thanks to Aryana for instructions on direct photo posting.
It's got a history. Rebuilt twice, once in the early 50's and again in the 70's. But it's airworthy and paid for. And it is red so it's got to be fast!
Yep! (And I even see someone added STOL leading edges so it could slow-down a bit if necessary to allow green ones to keep up! Nice!)
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention. An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
Did you have the Sky Crane to Oshkosh? I loved the water pickup system.
Welcome to the Association and you WILL learn very much.
John
John Hess
Past President 2018-2021 President 2016-2018, TIC170A Vice President 2014-2016, TIC170A Director 2005-2014, TIC170A N3833V Flying for Fun '67 XLH 900 Harley Sportster EAA Chapter 390 Pres since 2006 K3KNT
Welcome on board as well Ken !
Sorry , it looks like i'm a little bit late
I'm as well as new members since Sept .
I'm restoring a 52 model and mine is actually in pieces .
Looking forward to seeing you some time !
Fred PINAN
Bruce Fenstermacher wrote:Kyle, when I see a picture of your fine looking grey/white plane first thing that comes to mind is I must be looking at a B&W image of a nice GREEN 170.
I was able to get a handle on my mixture control issue. It is the original control. I found a few notches in the control cable where it exits the sheath. Looks like vibration wear. I really liked the way it would go one notch at a time so I will replace it with a ratcheting control as suggested.
