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  1. Lois

    How to 'buy and fly' cheap in 2022?

    With all due respect your fixed costs are constants. Insurance (unless you are rich), Annuals (if you fly it at all), Hangar or Tie Down Costs (unless you have a big back yard), Debt Service (if you borrowed) are all the same regardless of how much you fly. Numbers can be argued. I spent two...
  2. Lois

    Victa (Australia) Airtourer 100 (Cont. O-200 powered)?

    Thank you (seriously) for your concern. I am very well acquainted with older designs that depend upon lift rather than power. The Airknockers used 113 cubic inches to lift two people, lots of stranded wire, and eight gallons of pump gas into the sky. An acquaintance has a Briggs and Stratton "V"...
  3. Lois

    Victa (Australia) Airtourer 100 (Cont. O-200 powered)?

    This one is a 100 hp, but from what I see on the performance tables the extra hp was used to offset DA on takeoff and climb, and the Upper Midwest USA has neither mountains or high DAs. (I wish I'd lived back when aeroplanes were regulars at aerodromes and airfields were fields.) I'd almost call...
  4. Lois

    Victa (Australia) Airtourer 100 (Cont. O-200 powered)?

    Empty it's 1033 pounds. As weighed, cleaned up and drained of drainable oil and fuel in flight attitude, on three trustworthy but not certified scales. That is 47 pounds less than the weight in the owners manual-- but it's missing all radios, some avionics, a couple of inspection plates, the...
  5. Lois

    Victa (Australia) Airtourer 100 (Cont. O-200 powered)?

    If all goes well I will weigh it tomorrow...
  6. Lois

    Victa (Australia) Airtourer 100 (Cont. O-200 powered)?

    Air Progress Article: Cessna evaluated it for a while, sold it to Piper. They evaluated for over a year before they sold it to Mira Slovak in 1967. AirHistory.net - N6300V aircraft photos: Cessna bought this Airtourer in 1964 for evaluation in the US, and later sold to Piper before being sold to...
  7. Lois

    What taildraggers with retracts exist?

    M-18 is also only 65 hp as original. My Mooney M-12 (Culver Cadet) is a conventional retract (well, the two mains anyway) but while tons of fun is only 75 hp. Landing gear is manually retracted. Trim the plane for best climb then trap the stick between 'yer knees. Then, see the wheel between...
  8. Lois

    Victa (Australia) Airtourer 100 (Cont. O-200 powered)?

    The one I am working on is buried in the back of a semi-heated hangar. The posted photo is of VH-FMM c/n 0 from the web. It actually has a C-85, but being wood it is a lot lighter than the production craft. According to the Airtourer club out of the first 170 constructed in Australia, 103...
  9. Lois

    Victa (Australia) Airtourer 100 (Cont. O-200 powered)?

    One stick... Okay, that's like the Aeronca C-3, or two seat Bensens... But those only have a single throttle :) I guess they expect you to play with the power twice as much as you would steer... :) The temperature here was -10 C (14 F) this morning. Too cold to be removing 100 inspection...
  10. Lois

    Victa (Australia) Airtourer 100 (Cont. O-200 powered)?

    Probably c/n 74, N(X)6300V, once owned by Cessna, then by Piper. Last registered 18 miles down the road in Camarillo.
  11. Lois

    Tail boom propeller

    Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne (1967)
  12. Lois

    Most Beautiful Aircraft Ever Built

    Just check the gas cap(s)...
  13. Lois

    Victa (Australia) Airtourer 100 (Cont. O-200 powered)?

    Thank you. Good to know.
  14. Lois

    Victa (Australia) Airtourer 100 (Cont. O-200 powered)?

    Mid 1960s. Anyone have any experience or insight into?
  15. Lois

    GAS TANK

    White, wow... It means they are predicting beaucoup snow... Actually, it's https://visitednorthamericamap.com You can click on places you've been and it creates a map you can export. Another for just the US is https://visitedstatesmap.com
  16. Lois

    GAS TANK

    So long as you NEVER attach it yes... The same way I can own a 10" barrel and upper receiver but I need a Federal Tax Stamp to attach it to a lower receiver and make a SBR. Rules be rules, whether they make any sense or not. Polyethylene is light. Having a removable fuel tank likely saves scant...
  17. Lois

    GAS TANK

    A friend built a Part 103 "not-an-airplane." Upon advice of an experienced aviation attorney a certified weight was obtained and multiple photographs taken of the process documenting the installed equipment and general condition at the time which proves 103.3(e)(1). The attorney maintains this...
  18. Lois

    GAS TANK

    If it is a Part 103, I have seen where builders built a shelf that incorporated a seat belt. Then used a portable 5 gallon marine fuel tank with a handle and quick disconnect. Ran the seat belt through the handle and sinched tight. Since the tank is not a permanent part of the structure of the...
  19. Lois

    Current Rates for Condition Inspections on NON-Builder EAB Aircraft (in the US)

    'Course some will reply: "varnished hardwood... plain pine is cheaper." :)
  20. Lois

    Most Beautiful Aircraft Ever Built

    People see what they expect to see... "For more than a decade, my colleagues and I have been studying a form of invisibility known as inattentional blindness. In our best-known demonstration, we showed people a video and asked them to count how many times three basketball players wearing white...
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