Colusa County Fly-In 20 March 2021

hey pepe i hear there's hamburgers down at colusa county today you hungry let's go flying jump in pete [Music] there what you want to do pete roller coaster roller coaster here we go like that up up [Music] you know you cannot stall an airplane at zero g [Music] with the electronic ignition you can really hear that smooth idle on that o200 cato prop the one that started it all the plain old j3 cub you got the 65 horse on this one an 85 that's practically a super cub spencer you haven't been watching this channel called blancolario have you have been yeah i just and i just happened to run into you today i didn't even know this was happening today put your best ones first all right we found the owner of the cub we couldn't figure out what's the story on this thing my name is marty grill and this is my 1939 j3 you got it go i can't forget departing runway 2-5 nevada county straight out to colusa very good pete why are those two planes exactly the same because that's keith peterson and he built two of them that look just about identical all right our control checks are done we're going to do a straight out departure flaps to engine failure landing straight ahead here we go check the clock flaps are coming up [Music] we'll stay down low below these clouds how's that sound yeah see any airplanes out there on the uh adsb pedro um [Music] not really copy that [Music] [Music] so [Music] rewind lisa okay pete you're gonna make the traffic 5-0 mike about three miles north gonna enter in the pattern on the right down one for three one kalooza you're gonna make the final call for me um [Music] yeah carburetor heat where they put that carburetor heat pete i found it well as glenn traffic on sure five hotels turning final runway three four let's win [Music] okay here come the flaps [Music] oh yellow husky yep go for it hello husky yellow husky final three one colossal yep okay [Music] yellow husky final three one colusa good [Music] birds everywhere pedro like a pretty short runway you look like i'm too high no not really i think we'll just sink right down to it i kind of don't want to land towards the end here i kind of want to land down there where all the airplanes are parked with yellow cup 300 30669 are downwind uh for 3-1 traffic in sight [Music] i wish there was some grass i could land on out four yellow cessna tail dragger on a right downwind for 3-1 uh we're about 45 up to the northwest north excuse me caloosa that was pretty is look at all those airplanes today what a great turnout this is fantastic we ought to go park next to the mall but i don't know if they're going to assign us a parking spot [Music] lucid traffic yellow top 3066 steinart turning short final 3-1 say uh yellow husky clear pete [Music] yellow husky claire good where shall we park at pete i don't know i smell burgers you smell burgers yeah well let's go eat some yellow stuff the tail dragger turning right base three one at calusa number two oh there's babs got us a spot yeah good deal pete gonna go park next to the molly what is that next to the ball what is that thing what is that thing yeah that's a quickie man that's quickie 200 a q2 hunter thanks babs [Music] the q200 right pete [Music] is this the one you were wondering about looks different huh where's the wheels pete yeah right there on the wing tips huh scott what was this this was a rutan design right you know it's an offshoot of the the quickie which originally a little onan generator powered thing of 18 horsepower but this q200 was a two it was a oh 200 right 100 horse jobs yeah 200 miles an hour on 100 horsepower it's just the crosswind landing it's got to be a little weird with that landing gear but what a what an excellent job he did on that one workmanship is outstanding yeah wow have you built it very easy i can commiserate yeah you know what it's like to do all this glass work huh let's go look at some of these planes pete let's go get you want those burgers first right pete burgers first planes later okay oh wow look at that all glass wow oh this is the one we saw that you were talking commenting about he's got the full auto pilot what do you see pete look at all the glass everybody's getting they're so affordable yeah that's all less than 10 grand you can put a complete ifr package in there with an autopilot and everything complete glass redundancy for understanding have you ever installed any of these any of these autopilots yeah i've done some work on them yeah they're pretty easy yeah wow easy to do but you have to be able to make harnesses and stuff that comes with it doesn't it all the wiring can buy all that or you can what's the sea can bus wiring bus [Applause] instead of having like 50 wires plus and minus and everything going to everything you've got one wire loom that makes the route and branches off to each component and goes around you got one say one wire and you've got an encoded signal for let's say i want to turn the nav lights on it's pulsed to go the code and the receiver sees that and goes yes that's my signal turn the nav lights on and the signal goes to the next component it says nope i don't recognize you on a recognition and the master controller sends out the signal that's coded ones and zeros for that device is it wire or fiber optics well it could be either but it's wire mostly like carl cars have it now you save hundreds of pounds because of the less wire works good yeah and lasts a long time yeah that's a colt there's a 170 with a 180 horse like homing constant speed prop really not this airplane he heard ready and the owner's standing right there scott i got four short one pipers yeah this is your cult yeah all right hugh's cold it started out with 108 when i bought yeah yeah that team had one of these remember one yeah 108. that was my first tradition was going down and oil consumption was going up and uh i keep it actually i kept it at paradise at that time and uh my mechanic was there at oroville and a guy came in in the same airplane grounded and i bought his wrecked airplane but he didn't get the engine or prop so i i bought it for salvage and swapped it and then sold the wrecked airplane in the boy broke even i broke him awesome so that's how you got 150 horse engine tail wheel colts are pretty rare and then with the 150 and it's a real farmer yeah it's good it's actually he has that pacer right over there that pacers so the colt was the forerunner to the pacer and tri-pacer design uh the colt was just a two-seater whereas the pacer and tri-pacer were four-seaters with rear windows short wing pipers sounds like a super stole coming in oh it's machado's so here's the uh piper pacer of course then they had the tri-pacer models this one's got a little different wing tip or wing to it usually about 150 horsepower with four seats and a big baggage door carbon cub with tony's gear oregon arrow seats full extended baggage wow lots of baggage got the brain bucket very well set up what does it say state of california how's that recall going [Laughter] good so scott what do we got here it looks like a pa 11 to me with the enclosed cowling and maybe a 90 horse engine but the registration says j3c brand new oh maybe it is yeah what do you see the little screws have the little screws have nylon washers underneath each one beautiful very pretty what do you see up there pete wow back to basics altitude air speed rpm oil pressure maybe even a compass wood spars on the wing spars how straight those tapes are you like the good job yeah the straight tapes on the yeah you shrunk one you shrunk the leading edge all the way around even yeah yeah all the way around the heat shrink that to fit that's really hard mark super stole look at this a pre-war luskim the twitchy witch that's appropriate name so i can never remember what all the pre-war luscombe differences are [Music] but i think this is a little bit different to begin with but i remember this was a big deal tubular instead of flat plate on the ailerons and scott you said the sticks you could tell the sticks are different i have to get jim zazzas out here down here they're curt and then they got a welded straight piece on them he's got wing tanks in this one no fuselage tank yep right there usual blend of tail feathers pre-war luskum 1940. with the rag wing it really performed well where do you keep her at calaveras calaveras oh we got the whole calaveras contingent down here yeah what do you see is it totally cherried out all the breathers this is a cessna 175 which is kind of a a little different year model of cessna in between the cessna 172 and the cessna 182. and here's the owner where do you keep this one based out of it's at uh calaveras kcpu okay andreas california and so originally the 175 what year is this one 59. and what year did the 175s run they went from 59 to 63. and the whole idea was to make a interim model between a 172 and a 182 and originally they had a go 300 a geared engine correct and and so in so doing they got a little bit faster form an airplane out of it they're supposed to have been a faster performing quieter um an interim class which make it see there's a stock 172 there that's a 50s vintage it's a 59 59 172 straight tail as opposed to this 175 but what was the problem with those engines what what did pilots end up doing to those things it was pilots are the ones that they did it for but pilots are the ones that caused the demise of that airplane they wouldn't fly them properly it's a higher rpm engine on the geo and they would try to run it like a lower rpm like homing and so the engines didn't last and all of a sudden that's it for the plane long story but it's worth reading if you get a chance look up 175's it's great history it's really fun reading about the plane as well and so the hot setup for these nowadays is just to switch them over to a 180 horse like coming coming yeah with a constant speed prop it's a very rare plane you don't see too many of them yeah you know you're lucky to see you know five of them in your lifetime really did you restore this one most of it was done before we did a new panel and a new engine upholstery's next krakon that's done lincoln creek on paint the cessna 175 kind of right in between a 172 and a 182. here go the auto gyros [Music] what was that from uh mad max yeah snakes i don't like snakes snakes armstrong starter there goes the 170 with the big lycoming beautiful here comes a nang-chang [Music] check those air brakes make sure they work yeah yeah it's on the one spot right there there's a good spot right over there he's for about 50 60 yeah yeah what do you call these radials the uh m14 m14s ps uh big counterweights on the front cooling louvers hey bud what did you do shoot down seven of your own guys here did you shoot down seven of your own here how does that work hey the q200 man how you doing good where do you keep this one at auburn auburn yeah you've been there a while then haven't you wait a minute what year did you start building your 200 1981 and finished it when in 2000. no wonder it's so beautiful man four thousand hours of build time wow i rebuilt it three times sandy kept checking oh i got 200 hours just rubbing it out yeah you know but uh yeah it's been a beautiful airplane that's a lindy winner from oshkosh wow 2002 weather yeah yeah and tell us again about the o200 you got it pumped up a little bit how yeah it's uh nine and a half to one nine point four to one pistons it's a polished ported ceramic coated exhaust um dual electronic light speeds and uh produce about 120 horsepower wow and what about that prop that's okay craig potato 72. yeah craig uh but that's this is the first one he put on a quickie yeah but uh yeah yeah so this is like 55 years of flying for me wow and i'm still loving every bit of it it's so nice to be out here today yeah what great weather huh yeah yeah like the old days i'm ready for some more of this yeah let's get on with it all right see you here thanks for bringing her out with the electronic ignition you can really hear that smooth idle on that o200 and cato prop all right we found the owner of the cub we couldn't figure out what's the story on this thing my name is marty brill and this is my 1939 j3 it's got a c85 in it but back in the 60s uh we have a lot of new paperwork for everything a lot of modifications on this you know it's got a different cowling uh and the exhaust straight exhaust with no muffler uh i have a little more horsepower on the thing likon did the rebuild on this and i opted for the don stream conversion on it so i'm getting a lot more than 110 horse well 100 more than 110 horsepower out of the thing now out of an 85 horse continent out of 85 that's if i really yeah how far do you got to spin it up uh 25.50 uh-huh yeah and uh you may see i've got some float fittings on here i have some straight floats but uh with it being so shiny right now i don't want to drag it on some trees and stuff getting their docks but it was a long time uh recovery uh the guy that did the vast majority of the work is right here in yuba city yeah and uh he uh just a master craftsman and uh he's done done a lot of work and there's a lot of other planes out there that he's completed like this but uh it's like anything else you start out it's just going to be a regular rebuild uh just to just want it as a puddle jumper and then it just got out of hand oh boy it's immaculate now thank you very much beautiful the j3c with the c85 pumped up conversion and the fully enclosed cowling look at the wood woodwork in there yeah look at the wood work in there afraid to get in it the details over in here oh would you put fiberglass in the back of this no your seats pull that seat cushion completely forward there and this is kind of a molded thing that's uh yeah that's cheap fabric that's sheet metal huh and we have to see that shoulder houses and over in here this so we can access it for the annual get to the bell crank and cables and if you go around where he is i'll show you the battery in there a little excel a little lightweight xl so you can electric start it yes all right i've got a dnc lightweight starter on it but i don't have an alternator so it's still in the non-electrical category it's easy yeah i'm amazed even though this is a little four banger uh i've gotten as many as 13 starts on the same day out of this little four pound battery so then then you do you charge it up at home you said or do you do you did have the other it has a trickle charger okay at home for the seat and the company that makes the batteries are now trying to come up with like a floppy solar panel that you can put so you can charge as you're going along yeah kind of get around the alternator and all the way to that yeah you just set it up out here on the ramp too cessna 180. [Music] price they get for those airplanes these days oh my goodness great load haulers you heading back up the hill already good mark machado's beautiful super stole mark what engine you got in this one this is a rotax 914 that's been big board so it's got different uh cylinders and different pistons is that a turbocharged it's a turbocharged yeah normally about 115 horsepower now we're getting about 130 horsepower out of it fuel injected no carburetor carburetor turbocharged four-cylinder road tax right plenty of power for this little puppy oh yeah what do these weigh in at typically yeah but i you know it's got a lot of interior and other things that i added that just added weight yeah it it really doesn't make a whole lot of difference when you're alive yep the super stole super short take off and landing with what i keep calling it fox landing gear but it's not really fox is it i don't know what it's called anymore yeah but it's a giant suspension i like your step stool yeah i i'm gonna need to get me one of those you put these 29ers on four horses that's a good idea now the neat thing about a superstool are these uh slats and they're just spring-loaded and they aerodynamically pop in and out automatically and um there's really no pilot control monkeying with this stuff it's all speed control speed control so it angle of attack at speed yep folds up like that it cruise and then pops out oh what speed would you say they pop out at oh typically 40 to 45 miles an hour yep and get the increased lift and it doesn't matter if they come out symmetrically or not either and it's ingenious design the way it slides in like that now this one has to come out first before this will come out yeah it'll lift will not come out because it's blocked by the outboard so they do come out separately yeah but often times you'll just see them floating out at the same time i've rarely unless you're really out of rig you know um it's coming in a little bit like this yeah the outside of them will flop out first but typically if you're if you're coordinated properly they're both pop-outs and it's just a little clunk clunk and you hardly feel it on the controls huh you feel it i mean you you uh you know what's happening yeah there's nothing violent yeah but uh you know they come out and you hit a rubber bumper so you feel that and you hear it a lot more when they come back ah that's a noise that you remember we didn't hit it we hit a bird and of course you got a lot of flaps on these too yeah and a full suspension on the tail wheel oh yeah show us those flaps mark yeah and they're slotted of course as well they definitely help the visibility especially when you have 29 inch tires yep yeah take off at the first notch of flaps okay which is right there uh no they the just aircraft super stole go see steve henry up in idaho and he'll sell you a kit this is the uh same just aircraft company that produces the highlander series of aircraft as well oh yeah that's andy's renew rig that's right from auburn the one that started it all the plain old j3 cub you got the 65 horse on this one an 85 well that's practically a super cub yeah this one was august 18 1940. 1940. yeah i'm a year older knitted so that makes this a pre-war cub now what are some of the is there any remarkable differences on a pre-war model well that looks pre-ordered though yeah that's that's pre-war this deal yeah and but it's a j3 it's not a j2 and so it looks just pretty much like any other j3 you're going to find yeah there's little differences but you'll see but not great big ones and of course it's got all a lot of new upgrades like it's got wing lights put an electrical system in it yeah adsb and all the things you gotta have yeah that's what i got to do i got to take mine down it keeps dancing all over the dashboard i'm thinking about mounting it up here yeah from these two crossings and sticking it out here where you can see the satellites yeah better and then get the ahrs to work correctly if you're so inclined yeah well if you got stuck on top of it yeah it would work huh i've never needed it yet but who knows this is from vacaville yeah yep the nut tree airport the j3 the one that started it all so we paid off the judges here today and what did i win uh beer coozie hold my beer category runner-up best-looking airplane there you go the mighty huskies spencer you have been watching this channel called blanco there you have you i have been yeah i have been i just and i just happened to run into you today i didn't even know this was happening today so ah good so you're relatively new to aviation that's correct yeah so what's the story you're getting uh a p license now yeah i i work in a shop or part-time under some a friend of mine that i met in my primary job and yeah and then i started you know fiddling around with it and working under him and um and uh he was like you know you should get your pilot's license and i was like you know i'm scared to fly i don't think i can do this you know yeah i was like my confidence was pretty low and i was you know and then i went to a couple airs that it clicked i was just like i have to be part of this wow there's no way i can stay working on the stuff part time and like be around all these guys flying their cool airplanes and not be a pilot so i joined my arrow club travis travis yeah they have some of the greatest instructors and things about their instructors old military pilots uh you know tens of thousands of hours and actually have a lesson today that i'm a little late for so i might be in trouble for that but but uh yeah and so i got my pilot's license and uh i actually restored one of these small m4s yeah you're working on a m4 right yeah so um i helped restore it and um you know worked under those guys the whole time and we got it flying and yeah it's i don't know it was a beautiful thing to bring a bird back to life is i mean being in this bait and flight was like pretty unreal honestly so but it's just i don't know it's one of those things once you get into it you just can't stop it's like it's just like and you're just always ready for the next big hit with him or something like that it's like what's that what's the next big thing i'm going to do in aviation yeah that's cool all right you'll be just like us 40 years hanging out at the caloosa fly and looking at old airplanes excellent thanks spencer thanks for the update thanks for watching oh that weather looks gnarly up in the mountains today pete i think we're not going up there that's ice and snow not good two notches of flaps set yellow husky face left face good [Music] he's catching up to us quick pete do you see him out there traffic says to 268 joe fox on a 45 downwind 2-5 city right there is up four plus [Music] i'm high and i'm hot pete [Music] got to parachute it on in land a little long let's see someone data city traffic skyline 2680 fox turning left downwind 2. [Music] right clear you can tell more than that yellow husky clear nevada county oh yeah that's right he can see us we're gonna go get some gas pete all right well that was something that wind was really blowing down the runway allowing us a high final two five full stops now watch greg's landing [Music] yeah he's coming in over here right there you see him left face two five nevada city we're welcome oh smoother than mine [Music] that accounting [Music] you

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Length: 37min 34sec (2254 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 05 2021