Harer (Barber) STC update

[lfries]

Re: Harer (Barber) STC update

I can recall an individual who flew over the sierras usually around Bridgeport.
His little 65 pre war tcraft with 2 two hundred pounders did it more easily than his sons 0-200 in a taildragger C-150. This eveningTail up in 200' and in the air at 500'. about 7 knots of headwind. T craft makes any HP look good.
I'm doing some instruction in a Luscombe and it seems like it takes forever to get the tail up.

[Pearson]

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I have a friend who has a 180HP Husky with 26" tires and Cleveland brakes. It is a real blast to fly. I love to go into some of the back country strips in the local area.

But when I get out of the Husky and crawl back into my little 65 HP Taylorcraft, I get just as much of another kind of enjoyment. There is something about the majic of that wing out there to each side of my head that amazes me in what it can do with only 65hp. The F4 Phantom is proof that, with enough power, you can make anything fly. I think the Taylorcraft with it's little "underpowered" engine is a little piece of aeronautical majic.

With all that said, If Terry ever gets an O-200 stc for the Taylorcraft, I would like to put one on. I like to go to the back country high altitude strips with camping gear. Up there the A-65 loses a lot of it's majic.

[jim cooper]

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RE: 85hp ,90 hp etc. engines. They are OLD engines. 1930's technology. It is and will get harder to replace parts. If one is going to all the trouble of putting on a new engine, do it RIGHT and install what should have been there in the first place! An 0200. These crates were ALL underpowered. Again....they were produced during the DEPPRESSION! No money available. AND they were primarily meant to train people so a 65hp was acceptable. Today its pretty boring. This is only my opinion.after you spend time in a Citabria with 150 hp, you realize what your missing, not to mention a super cub. JC

[tim]

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woohoo i can get back to the tcart now i need this with 0200 now !!!!!!

[N96337]

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That IS good news! Glad to hear it's going somewhere that it will be handled appropriately and will be accessable!
John

[Forrest Barber]

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atta boy Terry , e-mail me at taylorcraft.neo.rr.com for the thoughts and comments from Bob Harer at the last about his thoughts on "all B Models" the penciled in portion of the drawings list. Did you get a list of all ser numbers that the STC has been issued for in the past. I have a bit of stuff here from the past..

[Pearson]

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Congratulations to Terry Bowden! And a great big "THANK YOU", for helping to preserve one of the most popular modifications of our beloved Taylorcraft.

With that being said, let me be the first to ask, Terry when will the O-200 variant of this STC be available? Do you still have that engineering data I sent you? The line starts here (behind me) gentlemen, cause I want one!

[lfries]

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One of our Own. That is good news!!!!!!

[mmartin1872]

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/26826680/C-A-P-Acquires-STC-SA1-210

Seems CAP has aquired the STC... Transport Canada Forwarded this to me... One more step to it being available again

[tim]

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yes thank you who in there right mind would want to spend that kind of money on a 0200
other then that i have been thinking the new stc should have some thing like a swift t fwf since it so for an 0200 to 0320 think that would save a lot of time fabbing on an old part ??

[astjp2]

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Marv is right. Eventually, the new 0200 will be the answer. Going thru the drill of the update," maybe they want to sell it, maybe they are not home, maybe they just don't want to," is alot of crap courtesy of a totally out of sync FAA. The 85's and 90's ARE hard to get parts for. Time to move on! JC

Have you priced the new O-200? I can get a O-360 from eci for 7K less. Tim

[Garry Crookham]

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Lots of complaints about C85 parts being hard to find. Come on guys, that's just not true. You can purchase new cylinders from Continental and ECI, and 21608 lifters from Aircraft Specialties. Both Aircraft Specialties and Don's Dream Machines offter the 0200 crankshaft STC for the C85...gives you new crank, rods, and pistons. Don's Dream Machines has an STC for using an 0200 case on C85's. Don can also convert a -12 case to a -8. You can build a legal C85 using most all 0200 parts, and if you use the 0200 crank STC you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the C85 and 0200. There are lots of used, servicable C85 parts around and a surprising number of new parts, I've got a NOS flanged cranshaft sitting in front of me.
If you want an 0200 for your Taylorcraft thats ok, just don't use the no C85 parts complaint as an excuse.


Garry Crookham
N5112M
Tulsa

[tim]

Re: Harer (Barber) STC update

ya but i dont know if i want to have the fadec with it you will have to look at it lb for lb

[Pearson]

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Amen!!!

[jim cooper]

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Marv is right. Eventually, the new 0200 will be the answer. Going thru the drill of the update," maybe they want to sell it, maybe they are not home, maybe they just don't want to," is alot of crap courtesy of a totally out of sync FAA. The 85's and 90's ARE hard to get parts for. Time to move on! JC