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FishHog
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# Posted: 19 Sep 2024 12:03pm
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Congrats Fanman, you should be happy.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 19 Sep 2024 01:36pm
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That looks Sweet, Farman
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paulz
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# Posted: 19 Sep 2024 01:41pm
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Yes very nice. Good luck with the physical.
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ICC
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# Posted: 20 Sep 2024 01:18am - Edited by: ICC
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Quoting: Fanman Picture taken after the first flight... do I look happy?
  I've been wondering how it was going. Great to hear it and you fly again. That is a fantastic looking, fun to fly, aircraft!! I am envious.
Quoting: Fanman @ICC, how are you feeling? Are you flying again yet?
I am feeling very good. I am working out at the gym several times a week. It's a heart and pulmonary rehab gym run by the healthcare system I use. It is not local so it is inconvenient. Lots of driving. They are pleased with the rehab progress I have made. I am too. Their doctor says I am in overall good shape, better than many my age. He has told me to continue the heart-healthy diet and the cardiovascular exercise, as well as to keep on top of my meds. If I continue to monitor my blood pressure and have regular checkups with my PCP and cardiologist he thinks I can drive and fly within the regulations.
I did sell my Bearhawk4; I got a fair price for it. I don't have an aircraft of my own available, but I have been doing some flying, keeping my hand in, my skills up. How?
In another topic I mentioned I had reconnected with a female childhood friend. If you missed that, we grew up on neighboring ranches. We were 4H members, and competitors, and yet supportive of each other through grade and middle school. We never really dated; we just did stuff together.
Our Dads were best friends and joined the Army Air Corps after Pearl Harbor. They became L-4 pilots and served in Europe. After the war, each bought a surplus L-4 (redesignated as a J-3). When we were kids we shared the rear seat more than once. Lee and I both learned how to fly early on. We lost contact with each other during/after high school.
Fast forward about 65 years. Lee was visiting here late last year. I had been asked to say a few words at the local Remembrance Day ceremony; I was in my old dress uniform. I do still fit it. Lee attended. Afterward, she came up to me to say "long time no see...". Lee has had a successful career, AND she has had her pilot's license for decades AND is healthy enough to have passed her physical last year. As well she owns a T182T. When I go to Santa Cruz, we fly here and there together. I officially fly as a passenger; unofficially as co-pilot.  I miss flying around home here in NM though.
I/we have also looked at the LSA market... I want to be able to use my short grass field so that eliminates some choices. I could choose to build an LSA but am not certain I want to take the time. (Thinking of a Bearhawk LSA). I missed out on a used American Legend Super recently.  It even had tundra tires.
Anyway, I didn't like the color; typical white with a couple of stripes
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Fanman
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# Posted: 20 Sep 2024 02:04am
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Glad all is well. Same for me, the cardiac rehab gym 3X/week (except when I play hooky and go hiking instead). That will end soon, but it will just motivate me to go hiking more.
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ICC
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# Posted: 30 Oct 2024 02:10am - Edited by: ICC
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I am in California. Yesterday I became the owner of a used American Super Legend Cub (an aircraft like a Piper Cub, but newer and better.) It's an LSA, only requires a state driver's license just like the aircraft Fanman recently bought. Now the big challenge is to get it home. The straight line distance is 800+ miles and there are some serious western mountains in the way. I have to work out the details; fly it myself, maybe with someone, hire a ferry pilot, truck transport......
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 30 Oct 2024 03:03am
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I think I likes it
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Fanman
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# Posted: 30 Oct 2024 10:17am
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Cool! I'm not a Cub guy but the Legends are nice and that one looks like it's nicely set up. Is it SLSA or ELSA?
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FishHog
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# Posted: 30 Oct 2024 11:38am
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Congratulations ICC. I’m a big cub fan as my dad built in in our basement when I was a kid. He flew it for years. Had to rebuild it once after the two of us had an engine failure and ended up with no good place to land.
Safe travels if you fly it home
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ICC
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# Posted: 30 Oct 2024 04:58pm - Edited by: ICC
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Quoting: Fanman Is it SLSA or ELSA?
Experimental The former owner built it with the factory assist plan.
180 HP fuel-injected Titan O-340 engine. It doesn't fly much faster than the 100 hp but takeoff is about a 60 ft roll instead of 210 ft. It can seem to jump off the ground.
I like the left & right side doors that can be open while in flight... almost like an open cockpit.
I learned to fly in Dad's PA-11 before I had a driver's license. I think the PA-11 had half the horsepower
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Fanman
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# Posted: 31 Oct 2024 02:11am
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Quoting: ICC 180 HP fuel-injected Titan O-340 engine. It doesn't fly much faster than the 100 hp but takeoff is about a 60 ft roll instead of 210 ft.
Nice. For the non airplane people, the original Cub had 37 hp, though most had 65 hp.
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paulz
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# Posted: 31 Oct 2024 11:54am
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I’m not an airplane people but that’s a big jump in power. On a car it would take substantial beefing up of the chassis. Sine it’s a newer build assume that’s all been done.
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ICC
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# Posted: 31 Oct 2024 02:13pm
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Yes, the engineers made some changes.
Paul, you may not be an airplane guy but you are an engine guy. You might be interested to know the engine is an air cooled opposed flat four. 4 cyl 340 cu inches; 250 lbs weight, 5-1/8" bore x 4-1/8" stroke. EFI, 9.1 compression ratio, 180 hp @ 2700 rpm (maximum speed) cruise at about 2300 - 2400
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paulz
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# Posted: 1 Nov 2024 11:40am
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Interesting. Pushrod, two valve per cylinder? Originally an airplane engine?
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ICC
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# Posted: 1 Nov 2024 12:35pm
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Yes, yes & yes .
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Fanman
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# Posted: 2 Nov 2024 02:10am
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For sake of comparison, my new ride has about half the HP, weighs about half as much, and has half as many seats... but twice as many wings.
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ICC
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# Posted: 2 Nov 2024 08:27pm - Edited by: ICC
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@fanman.... LOL.....
I have recruited a friend who flies a Cub with a similar 180 HP engine to join me as co-pilot to bring my Super Legend back home. Weather target is Monday for crossing the Sierra Nevadas via Walker Pass (ENE of Bakersfield)
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