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Old 11-24-2020, 01:25 PM
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Default Tailwheel time!

Seems like my plane purchases are going better than the car purchases right now, so to continue on that, I just wrote the check for this 1947 Stinson 108-2.

I zipped up to Baltimore in the 310 to check this out and fell in love. Now, I could have flown on AA for free and done that trip in a day, but I decided to spend $2k and take 3 days. Nobody said these things were cheap!

I’m very happy with this one. Last one to add to the fleet will be an open cockpit biplane!

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Congrats, that's a cool looking plane.
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Old 11-24-2020, 01:36 PM
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Very cool Dave!!
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WOW Dave very cool ....but that thing is as old as me does look very clean, but we need more pictures, I panel, and engine .


But you need this, and you can fly around with the canopy open and that counts as open cockpit


Have fun with her


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Thanks, men! Yes, Mike, I NEED one of those but unfortunately, I’m about 2.something Million short!

The panel is basic VFR but it comes with a Garmin 660 so I can follow my “pink line” that I’m used to seeing.

SuperDave’s Aviation Lesson 101:

For those that don’t know anything about aviation, the old skool way of flying was done by “pilotage” which is looking at a map and finding landmarks such as lakes, roads, and large structures. Then you fly to those points with your finger on the map and away you go! The next step up from that was using VOR and NDB ground based navigation units which sent out a radio signal you tuned your instruments in the cockpit to. A needle on the gauge would point to the ground based navigational aid and keeping the needle straight, you’d fly to the navigation station and away you go! Next up from that was GPS which displays latitude and longitude navigation fixes known as “waypoints” in a digital version of what’s called a “flight plan”. The flight plan is a list of points between A and B that you intend to fly to so you can reach your destination. Between these points a magenta line is displayed on your instrument screen. Basically, a purple line that you keep the plane following. We do that at the airlines and the accuracy, as you know, is spectacular. This has come to General Aviation (the small plane guys) and makes getting from A to B extremely simple. The GPS also displays other things that we need to know like frequencies, areas we can’t fly into due to FAA restrictions, and terrain/traffic information. Very handy.

The engine is a Franklin 150hp, and if you research those, you’ll see that they were originally designed for cars! So basically, I bought a flying car.

350hrs since major overhaul Mike, and 25 since top with new cylinders. Should last me a but before I drop the 392 Hemi in there!

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Very nice. That should give you both years of enjoyment flying around. I wish I had gotten my pilots license at an earlier age and purchased a small plane. Working on the license but too old to buy one......
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Old 11-24-2020, 04:27 PM
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You did good, very clean.



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Old 11-24-2020, 05:30 PM
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Beautiful Dave...I have a friend locally restoring a '46 108 with a 150. Never had the opportunity, but I understand they're wonderful to fly. From the pics, it looks like Martin State (MTN)?
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She's a sweetie.

I get a little bit nauseous just looking at those photos.

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Dave is right on with Old School flying. I used to sit in the cockpit of an AA DC10 and "punch in" the VOR designations into the LORAN.(I think?) for my Old Man before heading to Europe, while he went over the "mechanicals list" (problems with the aircraft).Seems those planes always had issues. That technology is loooong gone
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