Not your average Cessna 150. This 1959 C-150 has been converted to a taildragger using Cessna 140 parts. Join Mark as he talks about this plane and takes it around the patch.
Once upon a time, the tailwheel converted...."Restored" 150s and 172s were selling for cheap and then all of a sudden everyone wanted to be a bush pilot taildragger pilot and now these things are wild!
The Continental 0-200 hold six quarts of oil not four, and it develops 100 hp at 2750 rpm (at sea level anyway). I normally fill my oil tank to 5 quarts as it always blows out the sixth quart anyway. The sweetest thing about it is it only burns 4.5 gallon of gas at 2350 rpm cruise, 7,500 feet at 100 mph.
Sweet ! All of us that got our ticket back in the 80s here in Texas pretty much got it in a 150. Wasn’t many little pipers around. Always have a soft spot for a 150, and that’s a sharp looking little Taildragger
Thoroughly enjoy your videos -- most entertaining AND informative !! Having the gauges on the screen is a GREAT idea too -- A Beautiful airplane . Thanks Mark.
Thanks for adding the price at the end. It's a nice piece of information to help round out the education because the value over time is part of history as well. Please consider adding the price to all future videos.
Thank you for all the work you and your team put into these very entertaining and educational videos, When friends ask me about the different aircraft they have encountered, I refer them to your web site, what a Treasure of information you are sharing.
Very enjoyable video! I had many flight hours in 150's, even the straight tail ones, but no tail wheel 150's. This looks to be a good one to enjoy tail wheel time in!
Not a pilot nor will I ever be a pilot, but your videos are so informative and intriguing that I subscribed and look forward to watching many more of your videos.
David just finished a '64 for my buddy last november. David Lowe is the king of those conversions in my opinion. We're local to David so we get to see a lot of his work.
I've always wanted a C-150 taildragger. When I was a kid of 5 back in 1970 I had a toy that was a tricked-out C-150 (with a red and black checker color scheme) that 'flew' in a circle on the end of a rod that was connected to a motor/controller/hand hold. It was kind of like the helicopter toy that used to be around except this one you held in your hand. I don't know if I'm explaining it correctly, but that plane was just the start of my love for taildragging C-150's and C-185's too! Thanks for the great video! I wish I had $45k sitting around. I'd love to own that beauty.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Yes, I remember control line planes. And I remember the crashes. I had a really nice Stuka that I had saved up all my money to get and on the first flight the elevator got stuck and I watched the most beautiful loop until it wasn't. The 'toy' I'm talking about is a different thing. It was basically a handgrip that contained batteries, with a rod at the top connected by a pinion so it could revolve around the top of the grip. At the other end of the rod was a C-150 that had a small DC motor powering the propeller, and the plane would then 'fly' around the circumference of the rod. It was a simple thing, and I wish I could find a picture for lack of description. I also had a Boeing 727 'model' that had a 4' long fuselage and corresponding wing dimensions. It had motorized landing gear that also retracted, opening doors and rear airstair, and audible engine sounds. My dad was in the USAF and always came home with some really cool toys. I'm not always sure if they were for me, or him! LoL!
That looks like a really sweet airplane. Anyone who has any time in an Ercoupe 415C like I own would be instantly at home in that plane. The panel and its operation is pretty similar, except the trim control and of course the Ercoupe has no flaps and no rudder pedals. The engine, fuel burn and range is almost identical. I think that Fred Weike designed the trike gear into his Ercoupe before any other designer did. I have heard that the introduction of the C-150 was a very strong competitor for the Erco Company. I know that Fred went on to design the Cherokee models of Piper, so he may have doomed the Ercoupe when he did.
Wow! What a beauty! My dad developed the Texas Taildragger STCs, along with 150 & 180 hp conversion kits & long-range tanks for 150/152/172s. His last plane, which he restored, was a 1959 150 with Texas Taildragger & 150 hp on the nose. This airplane was gorgeous & he got a special reg # N59150 for "1959 150." It was emotionally difficult to sell this plane after he died, but was necessary. I dream of buying it back someday & fly it, and very well may try.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 I will in all likelihood find it and make an offer, but need to wait a year or so. Geographical & career situations are fluctuating & it's not a good time to buy a plane. Your 150 is _awesome_ and I'll likely be repeating my viewing of your wonderful video many times the next few months.
I flew a C150 Texas Taildragger with the 150hp conversion. That STC also removed the spin restriction. It made questionable off-airport operations easy. I even flew it from Atlanta to Oshkosh and back in the early 90s. Useful machine with those STCs. Your dad did great.
@@SR-et8zx Thank you so much! Yes, increased utility was one of the main benefits. We sold many kits to Alaska pilots. That was one of the greatest times of dad's life, going through years of development & testing to earn a few STCs. These little Cessnas always were praised when we'd fly to airshows & set up a table & try to sell kits. They did well for a short time, but ultimately performance mods for little Cessnas didn't sell well. Normal 150/172 owners are often flying on a budget in the first place.
That's a very pretty aeroplane - thanks for sharing. My dad's first aeroplane was a 150B but with tricycle undercart (although he's a taildragger man). I collected it with an ex RAF pilot, on a bright cold day, in, iirc, 1981, from Kiddlington and we took it to its new base at Thruxton and then lent on a heavy duty drill into WWII concrete (and flint) to fix some tie down loops (it took hours). Happier times💜👍✌️ Dad said that when they tried spinning it with full tanks for training, it wouldn't spin, the tanks had to have less fuel and biased🤔🤔
I used to live near Kidlington. Thruxton has it's runway inside the racetrack doesn't it. landed there years ago in a Seneca on Christmas even loaded with ice. I was not the pilot.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Kidlington isn't a million miles away from me now. Yes Thruxton has the race circuit on the outside, in the early 1980s it was in decline, although there was lots of other activity on the site. I've driven the race circuit in a Morris Marina van, aged 14 ✌️😄 The circuit is used a lot more again now. To get to Thruxton from any local airfields used to take one through several MATZ at about 1000'. Thruxton had some great Christmas parties there too, back in the day, iirc. I have to say that your part of the world looks stunning - not sure if I could cope with the extremes of temperature though (being a Brit). Fun airfield you have - stunning✌️😊👍
Good little vid :), I have a C-140 with fabric wings and a Cont. O-200, great little economical bird especially burning 3 to 1mix of mogas. The oil sump is a 6 qt.'r, you got the fuel burn exactly right at 6 gal. hr. I figure 2hrs per wing until prop stops.
I've got a ton of hours in a 150. That wing is pretty good. There is a guy who has made a couple of experimental Supercubs using 150 wings and apparently they are phenomenal performers. I think it's called Dakota Cub.
I would love a video comparing the 150 to the 152 and the 172. You do these kinds of things so well. It's also good to know how they compare in terms of ownership such as availability of parts and mechanics to do the work. I don't know if there is a point at which the newer mechanics are not so familiar with the older planes and so it becomes less desirable to own an older one.
My instructor once turned both mags off on final. He asked don't you notice anything? Yeah, you turned the mags off. So what are you going to do about it? I said I figured you wanted them off for some reason so I was waiting for you to turn them back on. He said they're going to read about you some day in the newspaper, under obituary. Well I'm still here and I'm pretty sure he's probably gone. That was 50 some years ago and it seemed to me he was 1000 years old at that time.
Looks like my 185 had a puppy. I like it. One of the airplanes I learned to fly was a straight tail 150. There is a connection here. A LyCon, hot rodded O-200 with 115 HP would he a hoot. Wish I had room in the hangar.
Actually it looks like a Cessna 140 lol. Flew for a FBO out of Nacogdoches Tx in the mid 60s who had a contract with the Texas Forestry Service to have 2 Cessna 140s on call for fire patrol 7/days/wk from October to April. Built a lot of time in those old birds. They were and are really great little planes. My CFI told me one time, "if you can fly a 140, you can fly anything". I think he was right.
Do you have to get a recalibrated oil dipstick when you get a tail dragger conversion on a 150? If not, how can you get an accurate measure with the engine slanted back in the new configuration?
Good question because on a 180 or 185 there is a "back" and "front" to a dipstick. Floatplane (on floats the plane is level) on the back between the two "X's" and quarts for wheels on the front. The 150 has a roundish oval sump that is lateral across the underside of the engine so the oil is hardly in a different place when nose-wheel or tail-wheel.
The instrument overlay shows redline at 120 kts or 138 mph. Compare to swept tail 150s at 162 mph. Was the straight tail redlined that much slower or does it have something to do with the conversion? Beautiful airplane!
Hi Colin! The overlay is a representation only. It uses the GPS data from a GoPro and isn't 100% accurate. I didn't have a good shot of the airspeed indicator to create the dial, so I was guesstimating the numbers for the overlay. No intent to mislead ... it just isn't accurate to begin with. - Don the Camera Guy
"their impetuous 10 year old daughter", ha! those early rear side windows are beautiful. I like the trim wheel location too. is the early engine the C90? I thought 150s were all O200s.
Another great video, Mark! Hey, am I committing a faux pas by making a request? I know that your videos focus on your current inventory and when folks offer to have you show off their birds, but do you have anyone willing to show off a canard aircraft? Ever get any of those in your inventory? Thanks in advance. My wife and I love your dry sense of humor. She doesn't even like planes and she often asks what you've got out lately!
Im interested in your comments around vented fuel caps, ive got an R172K that has two vented fuel caps, I have issues with the fuel system not venting very well. Any ideas?
Hi Mark, Interesting comment about fuel caps. Right tank vented and the left one not vented. I believe that's how they come from the factory. I fly 2 different tri-gear 150's, one with the factory setup (left cap unvented) and one with 2 vented caps. The 150 with the two vented caps will almost drain the left tank dry before pulling fuel from the right tank. It's so bad that I keep my flights short so I don't completely drain the left talk. Do you have any personal experience with 2 vented caps causing this issue? Any resource online that you know of ? Thanks.
I'm no mechanic but I've seen and heard that only one of the caps should be vented. I'd call the Cessna pilot's Association and speak to a guru about it.
A little off topic question. I was an airport kid in the early 70's (washing planes and working around the strip) and one day an old guy took me for a little XC trip. A low wing plane, we were climbing out and he told me to take the yoke (!) as he reached between the seats and started cranking up the landing gear manually. Any idea what that plane might have been?
Thanks guys! It was at LEAST 50 years ago, and I was just a kid. But I do remember standard yokes, not sticks, and a crank for the landing gear not a lever. Looking at the old Bellancas the '47 Cruiseair might be it. I found a couple descriptions mentioning the gear crank.
It may have been a sud gardan horizin, gy80. I owned one for a while, 19 turns to the left wound the gear up, 19 to the right put them down. Gear was connected to the flaps. Look up VH YOG, that was mine.
I have a question, the fabric wings don’t have the faller flap, the faller flaps brings down the vref, OK, BUT aluminum wings are way heavier and heavier planes have higher vref, doesn’t it make the vref from both reasonably equal?
I always thought this was an airplane Cessna should have produced. I never knew that some of the. O 200s we’re less than 100 hp. Is that just an RPM thing as on follow up 172s?
Electric flaps were not an improvement due to 1) taking more time to deploy and 2) difficult to perform annual maintenance removing, cleaning, inspecting, greasing and reinstalling the jack screw inside the wing. 🤠
Once upon a time, the tailwheel converted...."Restored" 150s and 172s were selling for cheap and then all of a sudden everyone wanted to be a bush pilot taildragger pilot and now these things are wild!
25 years ago, was already like that.
Like air cooled Porsches
How much? where do I pick it up
Absolutely a beautiful aircraft
Yes It went nuts especially after the the popularity of Internet tailwheel channels and off airport bush type flying.
The Continental 0-200 hold six quarts of oil not four, and it develops 100 hp at 2750 rpm (at sea level anyway). I normally fill my oil tank to 5 quarts as it always blows out the sixth quart anyway. The sweetest thing about it is it only burns 4.5 gallon of gas at 2350 rpm cruise, 7,500 feet at 100 mph.
Taildragger mod looks SO much better on a straight back 150.
Yes it does, especially with the straight tail.
Just might be the prettiest of all Cessnas
The 150 with the 150hp is a real beast. Most fun flying you can have.
Sweet ! All of us that got our ticket back in the 80s here in Texas pretty much got it in a 150. Wasn’t many little pipers around.
Always have a soft spot for a 150, and that’s a sharp looking little Taildragger
I’ve been sheep hunting out of my buddy’s 150/150 tail dragger for years. Great plane and can do waaaaay more than people expect.
150/150s are underrated planes.
They are very underrated. Great planes.
Brilliant Mark!
I should bring the Luscombe down for a comparison…
Great idea, Juan! But, you'd better hurry ... this plane won't last long. - Don the Camera Guy
A real clean engine compartment. Looks like this plane receives a lot of love.
Thoroughly enjoy your videos -- most entertaining AND informative !! Having the gauges on the screen is a GREAT idea too -- A Beautiful airplane . Thanks Mark.
Glad you like them!
Thanks for adding the price at the end. It's a nice piece of information to help round out the education because the value over time is part of history as well. Please consider adding the price to all future videos.
Yes, I will add prices. A lot of people ask for that.
What a beautiful bird! Working on a ‘47 Cessna 140 right now as a project. These old Cessnas are iconic…
Thanks for keeping them flying!
Marm, this is a favorite of mine. Flying since early 70's. Still like conventional gear.
These are great videos. I agree- educational and entertaining. This is one clean ‘59 Cessna!
I really enjoy these videos. Excellent nerd items on different model years. Please do keep them coming!
Will do.
Thank you for all the work you and your team put into these very entertaining and educational videos, When friends ask me about the different aircraft they have encountered, I refer them to your web site, what a Treasure of information you are sharing.
Watching again, 4 mos later; great pants, wonderful paint, the no rear window lines and the straight tail on tail drager, just a very handsome plane.
Glad to see you have new videos out!
More to come!
Thanks Mark! Another neat airplane! And thanks for including the value!!
Glad you liked it!
I got a little time in a later 150TD. Best trainer I ever touched. It was a great teacher!
Very enjoyable video! I had many flight hours in 150's, even the straight tail ones, but no tail wheel 150's. This looks to be a good one to enjoy tail wheel time in!
Very nice plane and a great video as always.
Glad you enjoyed it
Really enjoy watching this channel, interesting and relaxing thanks
Thanks. It's fun.
Must be fun going to work every day. A great looking 150 and again the instrument overlay! Really completes the videos. As always, THX MARK!
The instrument overlay is ALL Don the cameraman.
Not a pilot nor will I ever be a pilot, but your videos are so informative and intriguing that I subscribed and look forward to watching many more of your videos.
High praise. Thank you!
Love it! The early style wheel pants really set it off.
Retro.
I would adore to get one of these, especially with a taildragger set-up. I love the looks of taildraggers. Would be a fun trainer to learn in.
Yes it would.
Mark is wonderful with these videos. I find myself here often watching videos for the second or third time.
Thanks.
Great video thanks for sharing. Greetings from a cold,damp and gusty UK- with envy 😊
It was gusty here too and we had a frost.
Flew a lot of these back in the 60’s with my dad. I remember that starter and primer 👍. They were less than 10k all day through the 70’s.
Thanks for sharing
Great videos. Thanks for making them.
Glad you like them!
Wow! Lovely plane! I have a '60 Cessna 150 and I think I might just do the same to mine next winter.
You should!
Love your videos, but got excited when I saw this one. Just finished my 63' project with David Lowe STC and absolutely loved it!!
It's a great plane.
David just finished a '64 for my buddy last november. David Lowe is the king of those conversions in my opinion. We're local to David so we get to see a lot of his work.
I've always wanted a C-150 taildragger. When I was a kid of 5 back in 1970 I had a toy that was a tricked-out C-150 (with a red and black checker color scheme) that 'flew' in a circle on the end of a rod that was connected to a motor/controller/hand hold. It was kind of like the helicopter toy that used to be around except this one you held in your hand. I don't know if I'm explaining it correctly, but that plane was just the start of my love for taildragging C-150's and C-185's too! Thanks for the great video! I wish I had $45k sitting around. I'd love to own that beauty.
That was a control line plane. I had those too. They are fun.........Before the crash.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Yes, I remember control line planes. And I remember the crashes. I had a really nice Stuka that I had saved up all my money to get and on the first flight the elevator got stuck and I watched the most beautiful loop until it wasn't.
The 'toy' I'm talking about is a different thing. It was basically a handgrip that contained batteries, with a rod at the top connected by a pinion so it could revolve around the top of the grip. At the other end of the rod was a C-150 that had a small DC motor powering the propeller, and the plane would then 'fly' around the circumference of the rod. It was a simple thing, and I wish I could find a picture for lack of description. I also had a Boeing 727 'model' that had a 4' long fuselage and corresponding wing dimensions. It had motorized landing gear that also retracted, opening doors and rear airstair, and audible engine sounds. My dad was in the USAF and always came home with some really cool toys. I'm not always sure if they were for me, or him! LoL!
As a wanna be pilot I really enjoyed watching your flight instruments while flying.
Thanks. That is Don's genius. Sometimes they are not very accurate.
LUV IT ,,im gonna start building one now ,,a model of course lol .,cessna is my favorite planes ,,luv these videos ,,
Looks better than it is. Miss the horsepower but not the fuel flow. Looking good, Mark.
That is the coolest Cessna 150 conversion ever!!
They are very nice planes. Then put a 150 HP Lycoming in it.
Great video and plane. Thank you.
Great video....I have my Dads 48' C140 sitting in barn awaiting overhaul...I'ts also the plane I soloed in back in the 80's....
Get it back in the air.
Another beaut video, Mark.
Glad you enjoyed it
That looks like a really sweet airplane. Anyone who has any time in an Ercoupe 415C like I own would be instantly at home in that plane. The panel and its operation is pretty similar, except the trim control and of course the Ercoupe has no flaps and no rudder pedals. The engine, fuel burn and range is almost identical. I think that Fred Weike designed the trike gear into his Ercoupe before any other designer did. I have heard that the introduction of the C-150 was a very strong competitor for the Erco Company. I know that Fred went on to design the Cherokee models of Piper, so he may have doomed the Ercoupe when he did.
I read the Tripacer was kicking butt on extremely strong sales, enough for Cessna to revamp their idea's and copy Piper with the tricycle gear.
Wow! What a beauty! My dad developed the Texas Taildragger STCs, along with 150 & 180 hp conversion kits & long-range tanks for 150/152/172s. His last plane, which he restored, was a 1959 150 with Texas Taildragger & 150 hp on the nose. This airplane was gorgeous & he got a special reg # N59150 for "1959 150." It was emotionally difficult to sell this plane after he died, but was necessary. I dream of buying it back someday & fly it, and very well may try.
You should find it and buy it back.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 I will in all likelihood find it and make an offer, but need to wait a year or so. Geographical & career situations are fluctuating & it's not a good time to buy a plane. Your 150 is _awesome_ and I'll likely be repeating my viewing of your wonderful video many times the next few months.
I flew a C150 Texas Taildragger with the 150hp conversion. That STC also removed the spin restriction. It made questionable off-airport operations easy. I even flew it from Atlanta to Oshkosh and back in the early 90s. Useful machine with those STCs. Your dad did great.
@@SR-et8zx Thank you so much! Yes, increased utility was one of the main benefits. We sold many kits to Alaska pilots. That was one of the greatest times of dad's life, going through years of development & testing to earn a few STCs. These little Cessnas always were praised when we'd fly to airshows & set up a table & try to sell kits. They did well for a short time, but ultimately performance mods for little Cessnas didn't sell well. Normal 150/172 owners are often flying on a budget in the first place.
As a child, I lived about 15 miles east of Wichita when this little beauty was built.
Those were the days.
BEAUTIFUL 150. Looks SO much better than a nosewheeltype
Yes it does.
That's a very pretty aeroplane - thanks for sharing. My dad's first aeroplane was a 150B but with tricycle undercart (although he's a taildragger man). I collected it with an ex RAF pilot, on a bright cold day, in, iirc, 1981, from Kiddlington and we took it to its new base at Thruxton and then lent on a heavy duty drill into WWII concrete (and flint) to fix some tie down loops (it took hours). Happier times💜👍✌️
Dad said that when they tried spinning it with full tanks for training, it wouldn't spin, the tanks had to have less fuel and biased🤔🤔
I used to live near Kidlington. Thruxton has it's runway inside the racetrack doesn't it. landed there years ago in a Seneca on Christmas even loaded with ice. I was not the pilot.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Kidlington isn't a million miles away from me now. Yes Thruxton has the race circuit on the outside, in the early 1980s it was in decline, although there was lots of other activity on the site. I've driven the race circuit in a Morris Marina van, aged 14 ✌️😄 The circuit is used a lot more again now. To get to Thruxton from any local airfields used to take one through several MATZ at about 1000'. Thruxton had some great Christmas parties there too, back in the day, iirc. I have to say that your part of the world looks stunning - not sure if I could cope with the extremes of temperature though (being a Brit). Fun airfield you have - stunning✌️😊👍
What a Classic!!! Thx Mark!
Glad you enjoyed it
Good little vid :), I have a C-140 with fabric wings and a Cont. O-200, great little economical bird especially burning 3 to 1mix of mogas. The oil sump is a 6 qt.'r, you got the fuel burn exactly right at 6 gal. hr. I figure 2hrs per wing until prop stops.
Beautiful aircraft, I had a 1972 150 it of course it had a nose gear, mine was blue and white.
I've got a ton of hours in a 150. That wing is pretty good. There is a guy who has made a couple of experimental Supercubs using 150 wings and apparently they are phenomenal performers. I think it's called Dakota Cub.
Those would be interesting planes.
SWEET PIECE!
Love the vids
Beautiful little airplane!
I think so too!
@@skywagonuniversity5023 I too live in Placerville. Would love to meet you.
love the new graphics overlay....
That is Don the camerman.
God, I loved those 40°!
It's a 140 with 40 degrees flowlers. Very nice it is too.
Looks like classic 180 in smaller scale. Awesome.😊
It does!
what a beautiful machine - good work on vacating at the first high-speed🤣
Thanks 👍
Beautiful plane. The cabin is MUCH smaller than my 74' 150L was. I could fit two bikes in the back!
Yes, you have a much larger baggage area in a 150 with a rear window.
An exceptional airplane from my year of birth.
Youngster.
Nice Mark!! The "mini" 180!! Lol..
Very mini.
Wow that’s a handsome plane. Cessna shoulda made these themselves!
Yes, they should have.
New viewer here.....nice job!
Thanks!
Thanks for the sub!
She is a beautiful old girl!
Yes she is .
thank you
You're welcome
I would love a video comparing the 150 to the 152 and the 172. You do these kinds of things so well. It's also good to know how they compare in terms of ownership such as availability of parts and mechanics to do the work. I don't know if there is a point at which the newer mechanics are not so familiar with the older planes and so it becomes less desirable to own an older one.
Thanks. We'll mention this kind of thing in future videos.
My instructor once turned both mags off on final. He asked don't you notice anything? Yeah, you turned the mags off. So what are you going to do about it? I said I figured you wanted them off for some reason so I was waiting for you to turn them back on. He said they're going to read about you some day in the newspaper, under obituary. Well I'm still here and I'm pretty sure he's probably gone. That was 50 some years ago and it seemed to me he was 1000 years old at that time.
Interesting.
That's a lot of economical fun for 50k....thanks!
It sure is!
Nice!!!
Looks like my 185 had a puppy. I like it. One of the airplanes I learned to fly was a straight tail 150. There is a connection here.
A LyCon, hot rodded O-200 with 115 HP would he a hoot. Wish I had room in the hangar.
Or a Kitten.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Puppy. Definitely not a kitten. Distinct character difference.😎
THat is a sweet airplane.
Actually it looks like a Cessna 140 lol. Flew for a FBO out of Nacogdoches Tx in the mid 60s who had a contract with the Texas Forestry Service to have 2 Cessna 140s on call for fire patrol 7/days/wk from October to April. Built a lot of time in those old birds. They were and are really great little planes. My CFI told me one time, "if you can fly a 140, you can fly anything". I think he was right.
He was right.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 yes sir, I think so.
Thanks for the videos. If you find a 310r could you do a video on it
yes, or someone can bring me one.
It's adorable.
Nice plane. Of course, it has a “proper” tail wheel! 😀
Yes it does!
Great videos...is your Attitude during your CIGAR checklist stand for checking trim?
Yes "attitude" is trim (and maybe my attitude.................)
Do you have to get a recalibrated oil dipstick when you get a tail dragger conversion on a 150? If not, how can you get an accurate measure with the engine slanted back in the new configuration?
Good question because on a 180 or 185 there is a "back" and "front" to a dipstick. Floatplane (on floats the plane is level) on the back between the two "X's" and quarts for wheels on the front. The 150 has a roundish oval sump that is lateral across the underside of the engine so the oil is hardly in a different place when nose-wheel or tail-wheel.
Wow cool good for Alaska on ski's. ALASKA
The instrument overlay shows redline at 120 kts or 138 mph. Compare to swept tail 150s at 162 mph. Was the straight tail redlined that much slower or does it have something to do with the conversion? Beautiful airplane!
Hi Colin! The overlay is a representation only. It uses the GPS data from a GoPro and isn't 100% accurate. I didn't have a good shot of the airspeed indicator to create the dial, so I was guesstimating the numbers for the overlay. No intent to mislead ... it just isn't accurate to begin with. - Don the Camera Guy
Do you know what STC is used for the tail wheel conversion and if it would be the same for 1959 up through the 150C model as well?
"their impetuous 10 year old daughter", ha! those early rear side windows are beautiful. I like the trim wheel location too. is the early engine the C90? I thought 150s were all O200s.
It was an 0-200
I always thought that the TD conversion was the best way to go. Full flaps on a 150 you can point the nose straight down and max out at 70 mph.
Wonder what stall and spin characteristics are changed from the normal tricycle set-up?
They would be about the same.
Another great video, Mark! Hey, am I committing a faux pas by making a request? I know that your videos focus on your current inventory and when folks offer to have you show off their birds, but do you have anyone willing to show off a canard aircraft? Ever get any of those in your inventory? Thanks in advance. My wife and I love your dry sense of humor. She doesn't even like planes and she often asks what you've got out lately!
We've an opportunity to film a Cozy II coming up. Will that work?
@@skywagonuniversity5023 that'd be awesome!
Im interested in your comments around vented fuel caps, ive got an R172K that has two vented fuel caps, I have issues with the fuel system not venting very well. Any ideas?
The air must be able to get in through the caps as the fuel goes out or a vacuum will form in the tank and the engine will quit.
I'm curious what he meant by that also. Not familiar with too much venting. Every Cessna I know has two vented caps.
Hi Mark, Interesting comment about fuel caps. Right tank vented and the left one not vented. I believe that's how they come from the factory. I fly 2 different tri-gear 150's, one with the factory setup (left cap unvented) and one with 2 vented caps. The 150 with the two vented caps will almost drain the left tank dry before pulling fuel from the right tank. It's so bad that I keep my flights short so I don't completely drain the left talk. Do you have any personal experience with 2 vented caps causing this issue? Any resource online that you know of ? Thanks.
I'm no mechanic but I've seen and heard that only one of the caps should be vented. I'd call the Cessna pilot's Association and speak to a guru about it.
A little off topic question. I was an airport kid in the early 70's (washing planes and working around the strip) and one day an old guy took me for a little XC trip. A low wing plane, we were climbing out and he told me to take the yoke (!) as he reached between the seats and started cranking up the landing gear manually. Any idea what that plane might have been?
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@@alanbrassard5927 just guessing, it might have been an old Bellanca 14-3 or similar.
Thanks guys! It was at LEAST 50 years ago, and I was just a kid. But I do remember standard yokes, not sticks, and a crank for the landing gear not a lever. Looking at the old Bellancas the '47 Cruiseair might be it. I found a couple descriptions mentioning the gear crank.
Probably an early Mooney, they had manual gear retraction, with an electric option coming later.
It may have been a sud gardan horizin, gy80. I owned one for a while, 19 turns to the left wound the gear up, 19 to the right put them down. Gear was connected to the flaps. Look up VH YOG, that was mine.
Did they add drains on the rear of the tanks since it now sits on its tail?
That is where they already are
I have a question, the fabric wings don’t have the faller flap, the faller flaps brings down the vref, OK, BUT aluminum wings are way heavier and heavier planes have higher vref, doesn’t it make the vref from both reasonably equal?
It does. Both are so close in performance in the right hands.
I always thought this was an airplane Cessna should have produced. I never knew that some of the. O 200s we’re less than 100 hp. Is that just an RPM thing as on follow up 172s?
The 0-200 is 96 HP, people just say 100 for ease or math and remembering.
A unicorn.
A small one.
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Apparently so does most of the planet.
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I looks like a 140A with a straight tail and cowl mods.
Wonder what it cost to do that conversion.
Not as much as a kit tail wheel conversion on a lot of other planes. It's 140 parts on a 150.
Electric flaps were not an improvement due to 1) taking more time to deploy and 2) difficult to perform annual maintenance removing, cleaning, inspecting, greasing and reinstalling the jack screw inside the wing. 🤠
Manual flaps are better.
isnt the O200 100HP at 2750 rpm ?
I thought 96 HP.
150hp in this would be a blast.
Yes it would.
I'm curious why you refer to the O-200 as 96hp. Everyone I've seen is rated at 100hp. Is this one derated because of the conversion?
The 0-200 is 96 HP. People say 100 for convenience. How much could four horses pull anyway?
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can you put a 100 hp in it
Yes.
Put a Lycoming O-320 in it. 😎
That would make it nice.
96 Hp?
Yes