Last Mite I saw was at a local airport (long gone) about Winter 1960 or so. The pilot had some kind of self starter on it and my late father and I stood at the fence near the control tower watching him try and get it started. He never did while we were there. Pretty airplane- yellow and black paint job.
My grandpa (whom I never met) flew a Mite a long time ago, I always wondered what he saw when he was flying. Now I know why he liked this type aircraft.
Hey Kermit the frog manning the camera! Thanks for the vid, my dad told me stories of how he and friends used to simulate dogfights in Mooney Mites back in the 60s.
As a Mite owner for over 30 hrs, this question has come up. I was told buy an examiner that if I did my BFR in a Mite that all I would be signed off would be in the Mite. Take off and fly around the airport and demonstrate that I could take off and land safely.
I would like to fly with this sweet aircraft. but this is not possible if you're living in a little country as mine.. unfortunately. how many aircrafts this type still active flying in the usa?
I think tis would make an awesome electric airplane. Small, light, very clean with the gear up. Imagine sleek you could make that nose. It’s not really a xcountry airplane, more of a fun sport fun machine, so if you could have 1.5 hrs it would be practical. I think that is doable with current battery tech. It would be quite expensive, but people are spending $200k on a sonex jet that only has similar duration. It doesn’t have to make sense, it only has to be fun.
Amazing...the number of pilots who don't know the rule of hand-starts, which is NEVER curl the fingertips around the blade edge. If she backfires, bye-bye fingertips. Flat palms against the blade surface...and from the FRONT!
