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[Hank Jarrett]

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I have two Mototola Airboys and actually got one working again. All you could hear on it was some CW Morris code in one place. The frequencies have long since been moved away from aviation as far as I can tell, but still kind of neat to hear it crackle to life. The second one is pretty well rusted out inside but both cases will be restored. They fit in the glove box holes and can be removed and carried around outside the plane.
My plan is to restore the cases and make additional front faces that can be used as glove box doors. I have already made molds of all the knobs.
Although I don't have either one there was also a Mitchell Airboy Sr and a LEARADIO that could also transmit. I have a photo of the LEARADIO in the RH glove box.

Anyone have a LEARADIO or Airboy Sr to copy?

Hank

The Airboy Sr also came in blue, but was a different model.

[Hank Jarrett]

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I have two Mototola Airboys and actually got one working again. All you could hear on it was some CW Morris code in one place. The frequencies have long since been moved away from aviation as far as I can tell, but still kind of neat to hear it crackle to life. The second one is pretty well rusted out inside but both cases will be restored. They fit in the glove box holes and can be removed and carried around outside the plane.
My plan is to restore the cases and make additional front faces that can be used as glove box doors. I have already made molds of all the knobs.
Although I don't have either one there was also a Mitchell Airboy Sr and a LEARADIO that could also transmit. I have a photo of the LEARADIO in the RH glove box.

Anyone have a LEARADIO or Airboy Sr to copy?

Hank

[Mark Bowden]

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With respect to mixing ribs, 39911 has been flying since 1956 with a RH wing that is a blend of stick and stamped ribs. Whilst owned by a flying school she went on her back and had extensive repairs. The stick ribs were replaced with “new”, meaning stamped, per a 337 form as a repair per Part 18 CAR.

I can email as scan or post if anyone needs it.

Bill, I have factory Streamlines (wheel pants) put on by an owner in 1949. I have not noticed any speed increase. However, the fact she looks lots better, she is by definition, faster. The girl gets to wear her high heels for airshow season, but not in the winter.

They were in need of repair and that is nearly complete. As part of the process we’ll align the brackets so the pants are pointing in the proper direction, forward. LOL. When they go back on I’ll do a triangle GPS course on and off and see if there is a measurable speed difference.

As Tom and Garry have posted a standard wing tank is in the RH wing. I think if you got the aux wing tank from the factory it should be noted on your ACA-309, page 2 form as item 115 on the equipment list. Mine has the RH tank as it should have, but it is not listed on the 309 as standard capacity is 18 gallons.

Does anyone have a 309 form for an aircraft that has both wing tanks and can see if that is indeed how the paperwork was done?

Also side note on equipment installs, 39911 had many, many radios, batteries, wind generators, etc… installed/removed over time and all were just noted on a 337 as equipment with a new W&B computed and a/c returned to service.

It would be interesting to note if anyone has one, how the 309 form defined a factory Airboy radio as it isn’t listed on the TCDS as an option.

[PA1195]

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I've got something like this on my prop:

https://www.wagaero.com/propellers/spinners-bulkheads/skull-cap-spinner-small-size-5-faa-pma-d.html

http://www.univair.com/cessna/cessna-120-140/view-all/sm-spin-asy-small-skull-cap-spinner-assembly/

Gary

[M Towsley]

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Yes, Don and his sister Patty are great.

[Ragwing nut]

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There is a guy in the Phillipines, (American), who can make the hubcaps but they would be cost prohibitive unless many people purchased them. He does a lot of Cub stuff, too.

Its Don Jones. Nice guy. I see him a couple times a year.

[wmfife]

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...The member who had offered to do those prop spinners was Charles Finch, in Trinity, NC. On a 2011 post of mine.
(Here- http://vb.taylorcraft.org/showthread...uot-Small-quot )

...He refers to AC 23-27 but is my understanding they would come under original equipment.

[wmfife]

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I have an EAA video tutorial that details how to make aluminum wheel pants.

The fact mine never had any and does have the original hub caps is the only reason I won't be trying it. If I did NOT already have this set I would be making bucks and buying tools. I could use the extra 4-5 mph if in fact you even get that. That and the all-around elegance they add to the work of art the '41 was. Just sayin'

[M Towsley]

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There is a guy in Guam, (American), who can make the hubcaps but they would be cost prohibitive unless many people purchased them. He does a lot of Cub stuff, too.

[3Dreaming]

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There is a metal spinning place in Kansas City that spins parts from teacup size to cowls for radial engines. There was a reference to them on the "Kansas City Dawn Patrol" web site. I know some people from out there and can check if there are a group who want these. They do beautiful work! There can be quite a price break of they are ordered in groups. Set up time is a major cost factor so might as well do a whole box full at once! We should check on the cost of domed landing gear wheel hub covers at the same time!

Hank

The problem with the wheel covers is that rolled edge. It will take a special die to do those.

[Ragwing nut]

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There is a metal spinning place in Kansas City that spins parts from teacup size to cowls for radial engines. There was a reference to them on the "Kansas City Dawn Patrol" web site. I know some people from out there and can check if there are a group who want these. They do beautiful work! There can be quite a price break of they are ordered in groups. Set up time is a major cost factor so might as well do a whole box full at once! We should check on the cost of domed landing gear wheel hub covers at the same time!

Hank

I think the hub caps was stamped. I can't find any sign they was spun on the ones I have.

[Hank Jarrett]

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There is a metal spinning place in Kansas City that spins parts from teacup size to cowls for radial engines. There was a reference to them on the "Kansas City Dawn Patrol" web site. I know some people from out there and can check if there are a group who want these. They do beautiful work! There can be quite a price break of they are ordered in groups. Set up time is a major cost factor so might as well do a whole box full at once! We should check on the cost of domed landing gear wheel hub covers at the same time!

Hank

[wmfife]

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Anyone know if there is still someone who can do these?

I seem to recall a shop who was ready to take orders. The standard "skullcap" was used on most postwar designs including Cessna and Luscombe but this was unique to ours.

(Did I say I wanted one?)

[wmfife]

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Hank,

Believe it or not I heard that argument when I first started researching Taylorcraft for purchase- over two years before I got mine. ...The bladder limitation. And I was a decade+ younger then then I am now.

Once when I was in my twenties I was a flight crew member on a patrol bomber that stayed up over ten hours each flight... no lavatory or relief tube. We all did fine, even the senior (by our standards) Pilot In Command.

(We called them ADL which stood for Airborne Data Link but the crews referred to them as All Day Long .. because that's what they were.) ...AND I was the one who had to stay behind and fuel the damn thing.

...And yes,water was served at the beginning of the flight.

But a lot can happen between twenty-two and sixty-nine.

Point well taken.

(*BUT* I already have two valves!!...)

Oh, well...

B.

(P.S.:Thanks Gary and Eric. I plan to keep a copy of that letter to show my IA and as far as air cleaners I have a heatbox for an A65 that I measured and is a perfect fit. The Brackett filter would rob power but the Challenger one won't.)

Closed cowl necessitates a few concessions. Just please don't tell.

(...After all who else can say they have a complete shielded ignition system and a baby-smooth cowl?)

"Powered By Lycoming"...and d*mn proud of it.

[flylo]

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For anyone running the O-145s Lyc My '38 had a modified Chevy air cleaner as you can see in my pics on page 3 of the owners pictures. I should have somewhere a letting from Lycoming approving & showing how to do the mod dated 1940 I think.