A Picture for a change of pace

[perryv1]

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Iwish I could figure out how to get pics out of my computer and into this site,I got some good ones too,and Id like to share them,Ill keep trying... oh look I did it now if i can remember how to do it again LOL
PerryV

[flymac]

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looking for flounder oc maryland I all i have been leaving the boat at home
and still fishing . lot of airports will let you get to the water and fish its a fun way to go fishing.

[Dick Smith]

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Float season is fast fleeing away up here. Jim Hartley and I spent several days looking for a moose, without success, but had a good time with two Taylorcrafts on floats.

[pete]

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Thanks for the nice pics! I said I'd post some photos of my experimental on a different thread. This looks like a good place to put them. I spent a couple days deer hunting on Montague Island. Didn't see any bucks. A young brownie checked out my campsite. Nobody caused either any serious trouble.

Pete

[Jim Hartley]

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Hi Pete!
Sure would like to know the Specs on that pretty machine...?

Jim

[AKbrew]

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Me too...what are the specs for your "Super-T"?

Jim Hartley, there are so many great T-Crafts here in Alaska...do we have any kind of association or group? I'm just getting back into the Taylorcraft fold after a 20 year hiatus. Let me know where all the T-Crafts gather for $100 hamburgers (or halibut tacos).

[KRW]

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Here's a couple from a Flathorn lake strip that's short and has high pucker factor.
Hey everyone, I love looking at T-crafts flying keep pictures coming.
krw

[AKbrew]

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KRW...you must be pretty good on those heel brakes!

[Jim Hartley]

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Jim Hartley, there are so many great T-Crafts here in Alaska...do we have any kind of association or group? I'm just getting back into the Taylorcraft fold after a 20 year hiatus. Let me know where all the T-Crafts gather for $100 hamburgers (or halibut tacos).

Hi Jim and welcome to the tribe. No association here that I know of yet. Maybe something to consider though? Dick Smith and I have gotten together several times,most recently for a couple of days of moose hunting. We always have a good time.

I spend most of the time flying floats. I will put the plane away at freeze up... back in service in mid January with an annual, skiis on and fly off the lake until early april then wheels on for the six weeks or so until the ice is off the lake.

Contact me and we can talk some more.

Jim/376-6062

[pete]

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Jim & AKBrew,
The Super-T has an O-290-D2, McCauley 8241 borer, pa18 spars, d&e flaps,
29" akbushwheel airstreaks, c-170 wing tanks, c-180 wheels & brakes, extended
baggage & skylight, stick control & seaplane doors. It flies good. Try to get some more photos this weekend. Maybe some wild game too.
Keep the pictures coming.
Pete

[AKbrew]

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I have an old desktop computer that I now only rarely use for an audio recording business. WAYYYYY back when it was my main computer I had downloaded a bunch of various Taylorcraft photos off the internet to use as screensavers. This was back when owning another T-Craft was still a distant, and unreachable dream. I enjoyed watching all these 'unkown' airplanes scroll by. Today I had a recording project and when I finished I looked up and saw the attached picture on the monitor. It had been downloaded several years ago. Two weeks ago I became the owner of 3571T. Dreams still come true!

[Peter Collin]

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AKbrew.
I know the feeling. After I bought my 150 in 2000, there was a constant attraction towards the Taylorcraft. I tried to brush it off but to no avail. I converted the 150 to a taildragger, I thought that it would be the end of my attraction to the T, for a while it was, then it came back. I started looking at T-Crafts sitting in them flying in them floats, skis and wheels. I tried to come up with all kinds of exuses why it wasn't for me didn't work either, now I was really hooked. I had pictures in my office of Taylorcrafts for years, one of them is a picture of 3571T!
When this T-Craft came around I knew I had been had, someone once told me you will know when the right plane come along, it sure did. I had to do some crawling, begging and kissing up to get permission to buy it, not much it was more like token crawling my wife knows I'm mental. Now I'm happy as a pig in you know what.
Don't take me wrong, the 150 is the neatest and best flying 150 around, it has all the nice things like radio, transponder, flaps etc., but it can't compete with the T-Craft, not for me at least.
The picture of the 150 is just to see how it flies on skis, floats and skis are not legal on the 150.
Thanks Dano T and Ragwing for showing me how to embed a picture in the text.

Thanks
Peter

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[AKbrew]

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Wow! Awesome pictures Peter! Thanks for sharing your story.

Among the webshots pictures I downloaded as screensavers is the picture shown below. I haven't been able to find it since. It's one of my all time favorite T-Craft pictures. It looks like it was taken during the heyday of Taylorcrafts.

Does anyone know anything about this picture?

PS: Super-T Pete...where do you tie that rocketship down? I'd like to get a first hand look!

[whake]

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A picture from the other end of the country. Venice airport and the city of Venice. The city is on an island,cutoff by the intercoastal water way. The Gulf of Mexico with its 82 degree water in the background. Come see us.

[AKbrew]

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OOOOoooo. That's gonna look real good to us Alaska guys...especially in January. Be careful, you could have a living room full of strangers camped out on the floor! I just landed on runway 31 myself today...but it was gravel.