The International Cessna 170 Association

Lost my tail wheel tire & tube on landing at Tegucigalpa Honduras once in the early 80's & of course had no spare!The head of the Aeronoutica Civil wrote an address for me to show the taxi driver where to take me to buy a new one in the city.Turned out to be the company that had all the ice ...

If it had the correct amount of horse power (which is all you can get) it could go lots more than that.(all the M.R.E.'s you can get into every empty space full fuel, except the aux tank +one lard butt to drive) take off from Tela direct Tegucigalpa no problem!!

I was in the Navy so never had any experience with "C" rations, but if we had long transport flights (San Francisco to Honolulu) in a C118 (R6D in the Navy, DC6 in civilian life) they handed each guy a box lunch & there was a cardboard box of four cigs in each box tucked in with the fr...

I built my hangar in 2001,the building cost $7,500 delivered to the site,the slab was $14,000 the front of the building & four bypass doors I built myself with locally purchased materials for about $2,000.I assembled the the whole thing myself (with the help of friends). The insulation was anoth...

Hi Planecrazy, I am based in Senoia which is about 6 air miles from Falcon Field. I would like to sell my airplane(see my add in the trademart)so after reading the add if you want to call me or email me I could meet you at Falcon,maybe on the day when everyone else is gonna show up at Peach State fo...

Blue4,I have the O 360 Lyc. & the Jav.18 gal aux. tank that I hardly ever use since I stopped going back & forth to Honduras.I get two hrs. & twenty min on each wing tank till the eng. quits. (I only know that because of the aux tank of course) I really like having the extra fuel but wou...

Yep,sure is a good thing that "controller" kept his cool or there would have been a big pile up there on final! We get so used to listening to someone elses directions that we sometimes forget who is in control & who is responsible.Non event except to fill TV air time.IMHO

It's all a matter of economics,people who could afford it used "real wallpaper" mostly anything that was purchased at a store was referred to as "store bought" or more often "brought on" At first the purpose was not to decorate or insulate but simply to slow down the &q...

My hanger got so bad I had to recruit help from non airplane family members to clean it out.The dumpster is parked in front of the doors as we speak.

23 years with this airplane & the only "spares" I ever needed were not spark plugs! One spark plug WIRE,one tail wheel tire&tube,one tail wheel spring.I finally threw out that box of spare spark plugs I was saving for years. :D P.S. I guess we should be clear on what "spare&qu...

Thanks for that info KG,been trying to do that ever since I joined the TIC170A.Obviously I'm not very computer literate, so again Thanx

I am very sure that nobody else on this forum has ever taken a nap in their airplane sans autopilot! Heck some have slept halfway home from work on the midnight shift two or three times a week & that's while driving a car solo on two lane roads.

Bruce, You didn't ask me but I well tel you anyhow that I have made many three point landings in a DC3.I may be less sensitive than some,but I think that the only dif in any of these tail wheel AC is whether or not they are multi or single eng.I wont go down the list but asymmetrical thrust is the b...

Yep,I wear one of equal protective quality as the one pictured when ever I make emergency landings or ride my HD FXR.

That was indeed a tongue in cheek remark,point being that imho flex lines in the acc. section don't need fire shield.It's full of flex lines already & no shield.In fact both the oil & fuel pressure indication lines on my particular A/C are flex lines,maybe they were changed when the eng. con...