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A brand new Cruisemaster is getting closer to “flying”. This project was put on the back burner when the lockdowns removed access to the small pilots necessary to power this craft, but now in the hope that the pilot shortage will soon end, I am finishing it up.

I have started a new Bellanca project. Just in case the grand-kids are ever allowed to travel again.

For as long as I can remember, my tail wheel strut has coughed up any oil I added to it. I could not see where it was coming from, the packing was not leaking very much. I took it apart for cleaning and to replace the sagging (it was actually broken) spring and was shocked to find the ½”...

It is annual time for my 14-19-2 Cruisemaster. Thinking I had all the information I needed, I opened up my gear legs to replace the sagging gear springs and found a surprise. The two sides are assembled differently, and one side has a spacer that the other side does not. It looks to me like the...

Last weekend I noticed that when I used right rudder on the ground the tail wheel clicked out of engagement before it should leaving me with left ground steering but no right ground steering. Examining the tail wheel, I found the plunger that engages the steering yoke had worn the aluminum...

Things have been slow here so I am starting a what did you do with your triple tail today thread. The main job for my Cruisemaster is taking Grandma to see the grand-kids. I sneak in a business trip once and a while, but the real joy is getting to see the grand-kids in 2 hours instead of 8...

I guess I am not going to Oshkosh after all. After loading up my camping gear, while doing my preflight, I discovered a large crack in my spinner backing plate. :cry: If anyone has a line on a spinner and backing plate for on O-470K with a Hartzell HC-A2VF-1 prop I really need one. Ralph

I need to replace the pilots side window on my 14-19-2. It is cracked and getting beyond usable. There is a small fold down window inset into the side window. Was that there originally or was it some other arrangement? What should I use to glue the new window into the frame? It looks like...

Dawley Aviation just called and my right exhaust collector is too far gone for them to fix. Now I am stuck. :shock: Does anyone have an exhaust for the 470k on a 14-19-2?

The weather is bad and the Bellanca is away getting new avionics so instead of going flying here is a photo of a perfect morning for flying, just as the sun is coming up. :D

Like all of us I have a squawk list that I try to keep from getting any longer by fixing things at a slightly faster pace than they break at. Sometimes I am more successful than others at keeping up. My landing gear warning buzzer has not worked since I have owned the plane. Last weekend the...

When I returned home from a check ride one of the tail brace wires was broken! :shock: Is there a secret stash of these anywhere? I am measuring mine but if anyone has the stock sizes that would help me know I am getting it right. Now that my plane is down I am reduced to driving the car...

There I was (because all good airplane stories start that way) in the clear at 7000 ft heading back to Michigan from a drizzly West Virginia. In front of us the weather is slowly rising up into the flight levels. The tops eventually rise past our altitude putting us in the very wet cloud tops...