The International Cessna 170 Association

Found in the AOPA on-line news letter, 7 Feb 03: HONDA, CONTINENTAL TEAM UP ON PISTON ENGINE DEVELOPMENT Honda and Teledyne Continental have teamed up to study the market for the next generation of piston aircraft engines. Honda has already developed an engine that company officials said is more adv...

Hi John, There is about 5 or 6 170s in Eastern Maryland that I've seen....they are the ones with the round tail thing on the back. There is a pretty good seafood resturant at Kentmore. MD an easy walk from the airport, but it's best in warm weather when the crabs are in. You can walk to Hemingways a...

Hi George!! Understand your point and it's not important that we agree on this issue. Guess I just love flying and want things to be better for my kids and the others we leave behind. And, safety is VERY important to me, however, society has circumvented the natural culling process of the herd, allo...

George, Reality is a scary thing........ If we round our association plane ownership numbers to an even 1000 and 5% needs a rebuild every year, I think that equals $750,000 just for the engine costs per year....not big bucks, but perhaps could get the attention of a "shade tree" somewhere....

blueldr is correct....you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear............you can, however, make a really handsome little leather bag that is stronger and more practical than a silk purse!! We have the technology!! If we can build $2K engines (new) for $20K cars that run 200,000 miles and get ...

Eric,

Perhaps you're playing too rough with the jugs. I'm told they prefer a soft tender touch, wine, soft music and a hot tub also helps!!

George,

Eric is correct....rare to see goat head soup south of the border anymore...used to be served with pickled Baloot eggs and palm seed crackers....may still be available in Kandahar if they didn't blow up the resturant or shoot the chef.

I recently read that health care professionals are directly responsible for over 120,000 deaths per year!!!! Maybe the real problem is getting mildly sick or hurt....then going to the doctor!! The comments regarding safety features in cars are right on....they are modern and reliable, due in part to...

Just one more opinion, and we all know what they are like....... Make sure you have a WORKING DG (electric is great)(most won't tumble at strange attitudes) a VSI/Altimeter and that stupid little ball and needle (got them anyway...right?) AND at least a couple hours of unsusal attitiude recovery tra...

Happy new year to everyone!! I'm not an expert here, but following a quick run thru the Summit catolog, it would seem that a good high performance intake ($150) and exhaust system ($225) and a high energy ignition ($400) should get you a 30% increase at least and that's an I0-360 power or maybe an 0...

You guys are correct, of course...all of you!! I thought this was going to be a simple "buy em for $500, get 337, try em and if I don't like em, they will unglue...no harm done process". NOW..... I find they are either butt ugly or they look cool, worth $25 or retail, work or they don't wo...

Great info!!! Anybody know where there is another raffle for these things? I have been easedropping on some Super Cub web pages and they seem to like the BLRs for landing, saying the Micros work best on takeoff....sounds like the results were the same on the 170B. Super Cubbers really like the BLRs,...

Flyguy reply.....we're tied down at W29 right next to the Chesepeake Bay Bridge...always welcome and I know you must eat raw oysters in the winter and crawdads in the summer. #1 son has an 8 pt hangin in the shop he got a couple hundred yards behind the house that will be steaks and jerky by Monday....

Recent posts have revealed a whole new relm of possiblities!!! We have about 10 million ducks and geese here on the Chesapeake Bay in the winter..just think where we could go with this!!!!!! Hover quackers duck taped to the top of the wings and tail and float geese stuck to the belly...sounds like a...

This is counting ALL wives...right?! Antique car/truck: 11 (still have '49 Willis jeep and '70 Cutlass plus most parts for '54 Ford P/U) Tractors: 4 (over 25 PTO HP...can't count garden tractors with shoes on) Boats: 5 4WD vehicles: 31 (still have 5 not counting ATVs) Convertible: 1 Airplanes: 4 (pl...