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Carl-E:
Those use flat four engines? Or bigger?
Redball:
--- Quote from: Patrick on 03 Jun 2013, 16:44 ---I've been helping him a little bit with getting one of them back in the air. The previous owner had done some weird shit to keep her airborne and my dad didn't approve of the work, despite it passing inspection. He's a perfectionist and he wants to make it as fast as it can be, so that means putting it completely "in rig" and that means a lot of nitpicking. He and I have that nitpickiness in common.
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A neighbor in Tucson snowbirds from Alaska and has a Bellanca Cruisair in Arizona. He took me up for a short flight over the desert one morning, did a roll and a loop, asked me if I wanted to do it again. No thanks, one of each was enough. The first four hours of my flight lessons in the late 50s had been under the influence of Dramamine.
Carl, the photo of the 14-19-2 230 Cruisemaster's engine looks kind of flat.
Patrick:
it's a flat 6!
edit to add: My dad's insistent on the bigger engine because he likes the dick-measuring contest of flying faster than his best friend, who flies a Bellanca Viking. Why the Viking is slower, I really don't know, because the Viking easily has 60hp on the Cruisemaster. My guess is that the Viking has a much heavier fully-retractable tricycle landing gear than my dad's tailwheel configuration. All them hydraulic bits and such. Plus, the vertical stabilizer on the Viking is simply enormous. It's so much smaller on the Cruisemaster, even accounting for the outrigger tails. I'd go so far as to estimate it's a 10sq.ft. difference.
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 03 Jun 2013, 15:28 ---Set the ones you want to notify you of new posts, and then there's essentially no extra work involved. ;)
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Or I just keep an eye on the "Show new replies to your posts" page.
Method of Madness:
^ That. It's the first thing I check every time I come to the forum, and several times after. (I'll occasionally look for new threads too, but I mostly refresh that page).
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