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  1. Kenai.pilot

    Sitka & Fir for sale cheap

    I sure am have you lived there before?
  2. Kenai.pilot

    Sitka & Fir for sale cheap

    Hey, I'm moving in 6 days. I have all the vertical wood cut for a rag wing type plane. Also a bunch of Sitka Spruce and really nice Douglas fir. Got the Sitka at wicks. Hate to see this all go to waste. I guess a hundred and fifty bucks and it's all yours. I am located in Brighton Illinois...
  3. Kenai.pilot

    Brutality Today

    Hey CG, When you live on the farm...you learn to make things work, and also to use what ya got.....its the same way out in the bush in Alaska no different. I liked your comment about depression era pilots getting in the air....you would like R.S Hoovers blog about building airplanes on the...
  4. Kenai.pilot

    The Ranger, an easily built high wing LSA runabout

    Sad to hear, of a man being cut off in his prime like that.....:depressed
  5. Kenai.pilot

    The Ranger, an easily built high wing LSA runabout

    Pops..I get what ya are saying.... but when I think of too old to fly I think of a movie called second hand lion. The heroes of that movie apparently flew west...after tying to fly their old biplane inverted through a barn at age(90s?) LOL!
  6. Kenai.pilot

    Laminating Bush Alaska

    Well , I droped some coin today and bought a gently used lycoming o-235 ....surprised myself!!! it has bout 1200 hrs. so it is only 1/2 worn out LOL working on my stork plans set. A fellow member here has been kind enough to guide me through the errors in the plans.Ha ha ...hey its an...
  7. Kenai.pilot

    Laminating Bush Alaska

    Hey guys, I was blown away at the ready availibility of incredible quantity and quality of straight grained sitka jusy a short flight down to Kodiak!!! A friend is a wood worker there and had aircraft grade lumber dried in his kiln.....destined to be house molding....I died inside a little...
  8. Kenai.pilot

    Laminating Bush Alaska

    Thanks for posting, nice to meet you all. This is the upper limit of sitka here.Lots of beetle kill here on the peninsula has diminished the few we have. While bear guiding 20 minutes across the cook inlet I saw nice (5-6 foot DBH) trees. I am an old sawmiller/logger so that gets my blood...
  9. Kenai.pilot

    Laminating Bush Alaska

    Hi all, I have caught cabin fever on the Kenai, Alaska! 4 feet of snow out and enthusiasm burning hotter than the leaky old wood stove in my cabin..... I want to laminate all the critical structural members of my stork like bush plane ............ I want to do it this way for 2 reasons...
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