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We've led this tiny league for a long time but now that Citabria/Scout and whatever G.M. never made crowd is within three posts (two after I hit Submit) of leading this forum. Thus, I propose we stick up for G.M. and do some chatting ourselves. Yeah, it's silly, but it's winter...a time when...

It's nothing that needs immediate attention, but my Cruisemaster's horizontal stabilizer has good fabric, but has received coat of perhaps the wrong sort of paint for fabric. It's cracking. Folks I know say that it's not possible to remove paint from fabric covered aircraft. However, those of...

Bellanca 6561N arrived at Harvey Field in Shohomish, WA at 2:50 PM PST on Saturday after an annual, an unavoidable gear up landing in Albany, Oregon, and ten months of inexplicable anguish. The shop's owner was so anxious to get it home that he had his CFI fly it here and he followed in a...

Oy vey....sometimes getting out of bed is a dreadful idea. We had a weather break up here in the Pacific Northwest, where folks are friendly and your buddy says "Great! Let's go!" when you need to fly from Seattle to Albany Oregon to fetch your Cruisemaster that has been languishing since June...

He went away and your Mooney hung around And bothered me, every night ‘cause your Mooney flew around And when I wouldn't go out with you ‘cause a Mooney gets me down You said things that weren't very nice My Bellanca's back and you're gonna be in trouble (Hey-la-day-la my Bellanca's back)...

Well, after five months of hassle my Bellanca is finally ready to leave Albany (Albania) Oregon. I feel it would be a good idea to get a pilot tune-up (pattern work, stalls, slow flight, etc.) before I bring her home to a 36/2400 strip of pavement. As you can imagine, the grass strip there...

Bellanca brethern: There was an article in AOPA Pilot regarding a fellow whose passion is documenting the history of abandoned and swallowed old airfields. I'm sure if you look at the site, you'll find a place (or many places) you knew well, alas. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm...

Dang it's gotten quiet in here. Something's got to be happening. Dave, is that cover job getting any easier? Lynn, any new and crappy strobes? Some fella, Cobra180kts, is looking for....well...180kts, though I doubt he'll see it without a good tailwind in a triple tail taildragger. Lynn...

As I'm sure is the case with most of you, your darling is not always your wife....er....I should put that differently. There are those big fly-ins you tell everyone about, and those you mention to only a very few, if anyone. For Luscombes on the west coast, we have our BIG Columbia event, with...

My fellow triple tail worshipers: I don't know if this has bothered any of you, but lately AOPA has ascended the tall horse and noticed something everyone knows: the GA pilot pool is shrinking, new strudent starts have been dropping at a steady pace, and so forth. Their answer: we (that's...

Although I don't feel much like posting at the moment, I thought it best to share what should have become obvious from the lengthy power pack thread: Electrol 750B power packs are no longer viable for overhaul for 14-19s, or for Cruiseairs employing O435 engines and the 750B packs. 1. Nobody is...

Hey Folks! I'm writing an article for the upcoming issue of the newsletter.....hey, stop groaning! This article is on the hydrauic power packs in our 'Masters and early Vikings, referred to by Aviation Consumer as "notoriously balky." Thus I need your stories if you have run afowl of these...

As you can imagine, I'm not keen on using the Electrol 750B power pack again on my 14-19. Do any of you Bellanca 230 guys know the type of power pack used on your airplanes? I recall a 750N, but I'm not sure. Thanks guys :) Jonathan

Thanks to Russell I made it to Columbia despite this: http://www.democratherald.com/articles/2006/06/09/news/local/news02.txt And I had a wonderful time at the event. Both a Viking and a triple tail performed terrific buzz jobs and the folks were splendid company. If you live anywhere within...

I went about acquiring my Cruisemaster is the worst of wrong ways, and it has cost me. First off it had sat for five years. Its previous owner had his own way of doing things. The mechanic I paid to annual it got busted for running a meth lab upstairs in his hangar. The power pack sort of...

Okay, it's enough that I could have bought two nice -2s for the money I've "invested" in getting my 14-19 into good shape. However I'm wise enough to know it's never over.....all you can hope for is a break. Unfortunately this story I'm about to relate reminds me less of simple maintenance and...

Although our aircraft would seem to be excellent instrument platforms (without that term meaning BORING), issues of older electrical systems, scant panel space for radios and indicators, and low output generators could make outfitting one for IFR difficult. I realize that many of our planes...

Lynn recently posted a site - http://www.myplane.com - where folks can post photos and details of their aircraft to the web. Here's another site. It has lots of photos I dug up when researching an article on Bellancas for GAN, plus some photos others have submitted, as well as photos of my...