I'm just an average guy trying to make it in aviation, and I use videos to document the journey. I hope to use this channel to inspire others to get involved with aviation and help them along the way as I have been helped so much in the past.
Great story !! took me back to my first days of flying. Learned in a 1930s 7AC out of grass strip in Washington, Missouri understand the 65 horse and no electric !! Not long after with around 70 hours as a student (I know what you’re thinking 70 hours !?!? Didn’t care to get my license as I was flying Stearman’s at the time and figured who needs a passenger !!!!) Delivered a J3 Cub from that airport to Brian station Texas again no electric or radios in any of the first three aircraft I ever flew thank God the Stearman at least had a starter !! ha ha ha Anyway, thanks for sharing. I was blessed to learn to fly in those types of aircraft so today when the screens go black I remember why we have a compass !!! safe flying everyone God bless
Nothing you said in your video made any sense at all…. Absolutely zero, until I rewound and saw the Kamala Harris poster folded and held up in the visor in the car. Being around anyone ignorant enough to support that waste of oxygen is doomed to experience exactly what you did. Your disastrous story is a microcosm of what this country has become with Harris and only a preview of what is to come, god forbid that ignorant woman actually sleeps her way into the presidency.
My first aviation boss had a Champ just like that. We carried around a can of ether to help the shower of sparks mags on that tired 65 Continental. I remember getting a good look at the cars going through a mountain pass in the interior British Columbia. As low performance and poorly equipped as it was I really liked it. Good adventure story with this ferry flight, this young man has more patience than I ever had. He is definitely an asset to the industry.
I was a spin demo pilot in the Air Force years ago. I would take instructors up and show them all the ways a student could screw up a spin recovery. I logged over a thousand spins in the T-37, including accelerated and inverted spins. I can tell you that, other than knowledge and cockpit discipline there is nothing that will make you a better, safer pilot than slow flight, stalls, and spins. Bravo to you for doing this the right way and for overcoming your apprehension. You will have a very happy, rewarding flying career. I applaud you.
Ich frage mich gerade wieviel Jahre es gedauert hat zwischen den ersten Flugversuchen der Gebrüder Write und der Gründund der ersten Luftaufsichtsbehörde. Das wäre meine Zeit gewesen in der ich gern gelebt hätte. Und nicht 2024 wo alle Archivments freigeschaltet sind.
I hope that new engine was 90hp. We called ours a poor man's Super Cub. She had no electrical system and no radio until the ELT mandate back in the '70s. I loved flying with the door off and visiting all of the little airports in southwestern Idaho.
Loved dong Ackro. Flying a Citabria doing rolls, loops and spins. The spins were precise to a cardinal heading. Would get off work (Avionics Tech) and go out and fly ackro.
Late summer of 1971 I got some XC dual instruction in a '46 7AC (N4316E, no radio, no electrical system). It took three and half days, from Pope Valley, CA to Beck's Grove, NY. Going over the continental divide was interesting. We overnighted at Rawlings, WY on the airport WX station "lawn". Got up at dawn, with some puddles showing a little ice around the rim, and headed east. We made it over the pass, but I did see an old VW bug, smoking visibly, going the same way up the slope. Passing us. Otherwise it was a great trip; we only had to gas up at two airports along the way with a tower and us with no radio. Light signals worked great.
I always wondered how those light gun signals worked, I just avoid towers if I can, radio or not. Too much hassle and expense, and normally the FBO closes each day where a lot of small airports have 24hr access. Thanks for the story!
Great post! My cousin Kate got her license and bought a Cessna 140. Her Dad, my uncle Mike had his commercial license and around 1,000 hours of flying. They took a trip one week from Reno down to San Diego and had their starter fail at Bishop. My cousin asked, 'What are we going to do now, Dad?' He said, Oh, well we'll just hand prop and start that way!" She was pretty nervous as she'd never done that before, but my uncle Mike assured her it would be ok. It was and they had a great trip in the end. Thanks again for the great post, cheers!
Excellent video. I've had a bunch of Champs, some better than others, none of them prize winners. It's a wonderful airplane. Hopefully with its new engine this Champ from hell will give it's new owner many years of trouble free flying.
Love this! Please share more. For one, it showcases a different career path for a pilot. And two, we get to see some fun adventures and some awesome aircraft.
It's pretty clear to those who know better if your going to fly the champ Or any of the other older lite airplanes . the ONLY thing a 65HP engine will do for you is get you in some serious trouble . YES sure with 1/2 a gas load and no passengers and maybe a Bag lunch you can fly around the pattern all day ..But if your actually going to be doing any real flying shit can the 85HP as well and just bite the bullet and go with the 120 HP or even the 145 HP motor and now your able to do more than just make some circuits around the pattern You will actually be able to climb out and maybe even go camping .with your sweet heart and some actual gear ...The Champ with the 65 HP motor is as close to practically useless as you can get before you own a static display .
We replaced an exhaust gasket and a mount for the same exhaust, but in hindsight I believe the real issue was just the odd sliding canopy thing had popped open above my head and started creating the weird vibrations from the disturbed airflow as the exhaust shouldn't have caused what I experienced. Its odd though, I could have sworn the engine had lost some power when the vibration started, but now I question everything because almost everything appeared fine when we pulled the cowlings off.
I’d put a decal of a penny with a chunk out of it on the tail and call it the Bad Penny! But it would have looked good at the grass strip in my town, Red Stewart (40I) in Waynesville OH, amongst the Cubs and the Stearman that live there. You were close!
I ferried a J3 from Oklahoma City to South Carolina a few years ago. This sounds so much like that one. You definitely have to be a MacGyver to be a ferry pilot.
I agree with SKRUX? When the guy from the happy farm got into car and Jerry did not know him you had already maxed out the twilight zone meter for me anyway. No thanks I will Uber my way outa this nightmare. PLUS, If Jerry owed thousand on previous hangar space, whats the odds he would PAY YOU. Glad you escaped with you life . PS Even the airplane did not want to make the flight, it locked it's bakes. Planes are smarter than pilots usually. If they don't want to go, neither should you. lolololol Love the stories!
Similar thing happened to Me when buying my first plane, a 1969 C-150. Got it for about ten grand back in the mid 90’s and thought it was a good deal. That is until about 10 hours of flying it started running really rough. Being over Mountains at the time, made me a little nervous, lol. Anyway, I pushed on to FCH or Fresno Chandler airport where my Father in Law was waiting to go flying. Nope, instead it sat waiting for a rebuilt cylinder and so e other goodies. I ended up spending about as much for the Cylinder repair and other miscellaneous components that were expensive as heck as the initial investment. After that, I did put a hundred or more hours of some flying in it before selling. Good lesson though on being much, much more thorough during the pre-buy inspection. 😊
I edited nearly every verbal pause out. Tried a different style of making it as fast as possible to keep people engaged, and to compensate for my lack of footage. Next time I think I'll go somewhere in the middle ground.
