Ugly Duck

oscardeuce · **Joined:** Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:34 am **Posts:** 1021

Do I really look like that putting my junk away?

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Holedigger · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:55 pm

You must be hand cranking those things up by the amount of sweet running off your face...oh, I guess you meant the pic of the airplane!!! Always thought that was an interesting gear arrangement. Those engineers, always thinking!

oscardeuce · **Joined:** Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:34 am **Posts:** 1021

Holedigger wrote:

You must be hand cranking those things up by the amount of sweet running off your face...oh, I guess you meant the pic of the airplane!!! Always thought that was an interesting gear arrangement. Those engineers, always thinking!

That aint sweat, that's oil!

Nathan · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:06 pm

oscardeuce wrote:

Holedigger wrote:

You must be hand cranking those things up by the amount of sweet running off your face...oh, I guess you meant the pic of the airplane!!! Always thought that was an interesting gear arrangement. Those engineers, always thinking!

That aint sweat, that's oil!

Thats not oil thats gas!!! :shock:

LadyO2Pilot · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:41 pm

oscardeuce wrote:

Do I really look like that putting my junk away?

Yes you do !!!!! and why do you think they call em Ducks....LOL

Was about to say paint it black and the oil wouldn't show.....but the exhaust stains show up white.....so ya just can't win :roll:

jet1 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:19 pm

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:51 pm

No uglier than this bird that I'm flying some this week.

On the other hand, beauty is as beauty does. And for now this is a beauty of a plane if it helps me get my CFI done.

Ryan

Chris · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:00 pm

Those aren't exhaust stains. At least not all of it. Those are skids to protect the bottom of the fuselage in case the pilot forgets something. Doing the gear swing on those things during an annual always scares the heck out of me. You have to jack them about three feet off the ground and make sure the tail is supported with the change in CG

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:13 pm

Chris wrote:

Those aren't exhaust stains. At least not all of it. Those are skids to protect the bottom of the fuselage in case the pilot forgets something. Doing the gear swing on those things during an annual always scares the heck out of me. You have to jack them about three feet off the ground and make sure the tail is supported with the change in CG

Yeah, Lady02 knows a thing or two about that. She has a beautiful black O-2... and I reckon the exhaust shows up sometimes :wink:

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Where do you do annuals?

Ryan

Chris · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:35 pm

We used to have one at the Az Wing of the CAF before they turned it in. It was a neat plane but was not getting flown often enough and me and one other were the only ones interested in doing the miantenance. I think the CAF sold it. Engines were high time but compression was still good and it ran strong.

The Inspector · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:56 am

I hated modifying those things when I worked @ Robertson STOL! It's impossible to work on one without banging your head all the time. Whoever though the design of the trailing edge panels and the cove access panels was clever should be assigned in h3ll to skin his forearms for eternity trying to reach things in the wing!

We determined the 'PUSHMEPULLYOU' must have been designed by pranksters @ BEECH on a drink coaster at a bar and they stuck a CESSNA nose on it and had the drawing snuck into PAWNEE.

Robertson modded and demo'd an O-2 to the USAF when HQ was here @ KPAE. the thing was loaded with everything you could hang on one with full tanks and flown from the taxiway behind the hanger (about 1600 ft long) the USAF wasn't interested, wonder where that thing went to? (gads but Henry McKay was a h3ll of a pilot!)

I will admit that after installing the RSTOL kit, it was a much better airplane, just a beeaytch to rig and adjust on.

skymstr02 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:07 am

Chris wrote:

We used to have one at the Az Wing of the CAF before they turned it in. It was a neat plane but was not getting flown often enough and me and one other were the only ones interested in doing the miantenance. I think the CAF sold it. Engines were high time but compression was still good and it ran strong.

It was advertised, but didn't sell. It was adopted by a wing in Ohio, who came up with several flying sponsors.

LadyO2Pilot · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:13 am

Maintenance.....piece of cake.... :lol:

JUST KIDDING :twisted:

<I say as I am just finishing up the annual>

Actually if you do it several years in a row, it gets easier....you remember what bit you the year before and figure out a different way to do that part with less harm to your limbs. My IA is thankful I will tackle all the "grunt" work and he only has to do the stuff that doesn't hurt or tire him out and my hands are much smaller, an asset for getting into tight places.

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:25 am

Much easier to work on when you have the custom hand made tools for getting into inaccesable places.

LadyO2Pilot · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:33 am

Obergrafeter wrote:

Much easier to work on when you have the custom hand made tools for getting into inaccesable places.

Did that thing survive?????? I may need it again....LOLOLOL

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