Taylor Bird homebuilt project CHEAP !

[VictorBravo]

https://ventura.craigslist.org/avo/d...916124173.html

Greetings old friends from the T-craft universe, it's been a while. I hope you're all well. (Yes I'm still suffering from the emotional and intellectual disabilities of owning and flying a Cessna nosedragger, but life is somewhat OK other than that Sold over 400 of my little EZ Flap units since 2009. Not part of the disgusting filthy rich one percent of American wealth just quite yet, but the product has paid for my old 172 a couple of times )

I happened to run across this ad on the local Craigslist, for a Taylor Bird homebuilt project. I figured someone on the Taylorcraft forum might be interested in keeping CG's legacy up to date and completing this interesting project. The photos show it as being about 3/4 complete. I hope one of you guys (or gals) gets this project, it deserves to fly. Be the star of any Taylorcraft fly-in for sure !

I noticed that I had a few private forum messages regarding the no-weld skylight mod I did many years ago. I believe I had sent these drawings and documents to Forrest Barber (or perhaps Rob Lees), to distribute to any interested parties. If these drawings and documents are not i n the "public domain" in the T-craft world, please let me know and I will provide them to the Foundation, or the Club, or to the archives of this forum. I am GLAD to contribute these drawings and whatever instructional documents to the T-craft community. I thought I had put them in the archives years ago... can someone figure out if they are or are not publicly available? Rob, do you want to be the keeper of these documents as part of your archives?

Best wishes to all,
Bill Berle victorbravo -at- sbcglobal /dot/ net
Victor Bravo / EZ Flap / BooRay

[LostnSpace]

Good to hear from you Bill, I've talked several 172 owners into buying the EZ Flap, installed 3 sets and the owners are very happy with it, gary

[Robert Lees]

Hi Bill, long time no speak. Your input is always welcome here, as far as I am concerned. It must have been to Forrest that you sent those skylight details, because I have no recollection thereof.
I think the last time you & I met in person was when the EAA screwed you about exhibitor space in one of the hangars. (That was also about the time the EAA screwed Forrest as well).

Since you were last on this still friendly Forum, we have a "Reference Documents" section, so that might be the ideal place to put your Skylight documents?

Feel free to post them there, or by email to me if you think otherwise.

Please do keep in touch...I quite often refer to some of your Auster articles with glee!

Rob

[N96337]

Hi ya Bill!! Good to see you're still up and firing on all 8!
John

[Hank Jarrett]

Nice to see (read?) you here again. You have been missed. We do allow past T owners to be here you know, but hope you kept your tail dragger skills up to date. I have been flying a CessPool 172 a lot lately too. Feels like an F-350 truck with bad ball joints after the T but renting it is better than not flying at all. Wish it would cool down JUST A LITTLE in the hangar so I could fix the T! May give up and go at midnight pretty soon!

[VictorBravo]

Hi Hank !

I managed to keep my tailwheel skills halfway passable, I modified a Kolb Firestar ultralight/LSA into an off-road bushplane with big 21 inch tires and highly extended main gear legs. Put a 4 stroke HKS 700 engine on it because I was flying it over a solid city (northwestern Los Angeles metro area). Managed to get several hours on it, but the strange combination of the maximum usable prop diameter, the high gear ratio of the engine, and the high drag of the airplane made it too slow to mix in with the normal GA Cessna and Piper traffic at this airport. 45-50 MPH "cruise speed". So I had to let it go. It was my first experience in an open-air pusher ultralight... it gave me quite a psychological jolt the first time I climbed above treetop altitude!