Across the Midwest in an 80 year old airplane!
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Bill moves an 80+ year old antique airplane to Texas!
Follow along on this 600 mile cross country in a 1939 Aeronca! No electrical system, No avionics, No autopilot, No Garmin glass panel.
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Enjoyed this very much. Nice to see the old planes flying in today's complicated web.
That looks like a wonderful way to spend a couple days. Really enjoyed this video, thanks for making it!
Glad you enjoyed it! It was a fun trip!
great job
Fun trip!
Loveley landing, the mount is very stable and a good success!
Thanks for a great video! Good job!
Glad you liked it!
That is an early one. You can tell by the cowl. I had one almost exactly like it.
Mine was made in 1941. Prewar.
I'm at the end of a long restoration on a 1941 65CA. Putting a fresh A75 engine on it. What were you truing out in cruise?
@@davidphilyaw5957 I haven't seen my Airplane in 35 years. I don't remember.
But it seems like I normally indicated between 80 and 85 MPH. It had a wood prop and an A65 engine. It was adequate for the Sacramento valley. But I doubt it would do very well in the mountains.
I did fly it over to Susanville once. But I only had my 5 year old daughter with me
Not much of a load.
I really enjoyed this, want to fly my cessna 150 from Pittsburgh pa to colombia mo to see my daughter!
Do it! Just think of it as lots of 30 mile trips put together. Thanks for watching!
I have a ‘38 Chief, learned to fly in it. It has no rear side windows and a Continental 65 up exhaust.
Neat stuff!
Neat video - videos like this make me want to get my license even more!
Do it!
Just like they did in the '20s and '30s. Follow roads and use water towers as navigation aids. I've flown around the country this way. Just look out for traffic. A lot of pilots forget not all aircraft have radios.
It was a great trip! Thanks for watching!
Hey Bill, Ray (previous owner) is a very good friend of mine and part of my local EAA chapter. He was sad to see this old girl leave. We are going to watch this during our next chapter meeting - thanks for capturing this trip!
Lorin, thanks so much for the kind words. I was a pleasure to take the trip. I believe the aircraft will be enjoyed quite a bit by its new owner. I hope your chapter enjoys the video and please comment if there are other things you’d like to see. Cheers!
It was a TWA F-10 tri motor that crashed. flight 599...
Check out our video on that. ua-cam.com/video/ARwlWDs3TRg/v-deo.html&feature=share7
Thanks for watching!
That was great👍🏻
Thanks for watching!
From my putt putt experience flying Champs, T Crafts… a 1000 ft runway would be an “International “ airport…!!!
Exactly! A fun trip!
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Just saw your video and what memories it brought me. I started learning to fly in 1957 in a J-3 Cub and a Luscombe. No electrical, only a compass for navigating. Got my license in 1958, I was 20 years old. I was in the Air Force stationed at Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City South Dakota.
You took me back to the open fields I used to fly over. We were taught check the wind direction by looking at the cattle. They will most always turn their behind to the wind so they are facing downwind.
I eventually moved up to a PA-12 and it had a Low Freq Radio Range so I learned to fly the N/A quadrants. What fun days. Thanks!
Wonderful Nostalgia....and the cows lie down if rain is expected
Cows double as a windsock! I’ve lived on a farm for 49 years and never knew this!
@@devilliers123And if the cows lay belly up it’s time to get some new cows!
Great travel log! Way much better than some of the "Professionals" doing this :-) Back in high school, 1969-ish, I flew a 1946 7AC and had a blast!
Very cool! Thanks for watching!
This is great! The simplicity of a single camera is never to be underestimated! Thanks for sharing this trip!
Thanks so much for watching!
My first plane was a ‘42 Army Taylorcraft L-2M. I loved that little airplane. That was the most fun flying I’ve done. It was my very own P-47 Thunderbolt! 😎
I put around 400 hours on it then bought a 172 to get my instrument rating. I’ve owned a 182 15 years now.
While I love the Skylane, I really miss those 30 minute late summer evening trips “around the patch” at 80 MPH with the sliding windows wide open and the smell of freshly cut hay.
It also had the Shinn brakes like your Chief. Interesting thing about those is the brake linings are actually riveted to the drum itself. Unlike automobile drum brakes the brake shoe is bare metal.
If you see someone doing their run-up in a circle they probably have Shinn brakes. 😁
Enjoyed watching your video. Who is us, you keep referring to us but only see you. Just curious.
Me. Trying to sound cinematic... Oh well...
Thank you for bringing back my first flight that hooked me on flying. I was five years old and I’ll never forget it. Thanks again, Bill Wiesner
Our pleasure. Hope to do some more this coming year!
I fly a 1948 Stinson which has an electrical system but no navigation equipment. I too fly with ForeFlight on cell phone as well as paper charts. Nowadays the airspace is so regulated that it’s easy to inadvertently stumble into controlled airspace.
Thanks for sharing your adventure!
Thanks for watching!
Low and slow! More time to enjoy the fly time! Had a champ. Loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it! It was a fun trip!
IF you are talking to local radar and they populate your primary target with your tail number and your self-reported altitude, my understanding is that info CAN be pushed out to local ADS-B towers and therefore others with ADS-B receivers WILL SEE YOU.
Great to know. Not sure if SWO or ADM has any radar. And we were only in their air for about 5 minutes... Thanks for watching!
Not anything really new!! My Grandfather was a CAP messenger during WWII. He flew from Billy Mitchel Field before it was BMF in Milwaukee to Kingville Naval Air station on a fairly regular basis! He flew a J3 !! He was also a fighter pilot in WWI flying Jennie's!! They have a Jenny on display in San Antonio yes I know it was state of the art in 1918 but the only way I'd fly one is RC!!!
Still a great way to see the country! Thanks for watching!
Really great trip. Wish I would have had the time to do this sort of long trip back when I was flying in Champ 82701 out of San Jose, Cal. Radio used tubes and had a wind powered generator attached just to the left of the cockpit.
Totally agree about using all the runway. On my long cross country I was at a very long runway in Marysville, Ca so decided to take off from the center instead of going to the end. Learned a lot about what temperature and altitude can do to reduce performance on a plane that always had me way off the ground when flying at sea level, with cooler temps, and a headwind, like we had at San Jose. Very glad to escape being one more statistic.
Understand your decision to stay in Ardmore. When it's even warm and the engine won't crank the back quickly gives out after trying to flip that prop.
Anyway appreciate the video
It was a fun trip. Thanks for watching!
I watched the video in segments. So, do you live in Iowa, or Fort Worth? Confused, but remember, I'm just an old Tri-Paceraptor driver.
We’re in Fort Worth. Thanks for watching!
Great flight ! Did that chicken jump into your airplane? Wow chickens do fly! Lol 😮 Cheers
Almost! Thanks for watching!
ADS-B out should be required in all airspace, just one pilot's opinion. The Jack Brown accident could have been prevented, for one. Great video, peace !
Thanks so much!
I tried to track along with the altitude. 2500 feet was mentioned.
What would be a good altitude to fly with a light airplane? Of course it depends on the magnetic course.
Average flight altitude was 2500' (southwest bound VFR). Terrain was 500' to 600' along the route. Thanks for watching!
why did the heat stop spark ele .power //and if you did start the plane ? you would have missed the rain-- and been out- and flying away from any storms //next do my best airplane Piper - Cube
I believe either the coils or the condenser became heat soaked from operating all day. Yes we could have made the trip in one day if it was cool...
Thank You Bill!! Outstanding!!
Thank you kind sir!
Spent the entire video wondering who "we" is.... did another plane accompany you? Other than that bewilderment it was a fun video to watch.
We is me. And you. Seems the right way to put things. Thanks for watching!
EVU is a nice little airport. I borrowed one of their crew cars and got lunch in town at the steakhouse.
Cheap enough gas too
Nice place. Nice town. Great folks!
Relaxing video, great info of flying cross country in a antique.
Many thanks! I have one coming up with biplanes!
Thanks a really enjoyable video.
Thanks for watching!
Nice ! I do the lanyard thing too for hand propping but made it twice as long. One end has a pin attached which I use to hold the knot together that’s tied to a tie-down enabling me to release the knot from the cockpit and eliminate returning to the tail before getting underway.
I used a marine safety shackle on a Piper J-4 we used to operate. You can rig it to release and then be retrieved without leaving the plane. westcoastsailing.net/safety-shackle/
I’ve propped that plane! Ray is a great guy. Didn’t know he was selling her.
Nice little plane. Thanks for watching!
I thought this would be navigating old-school, either dead-reckoning or pilotage. Isn't an iPad with ForeFlight avionics?
We’ll…. My dinosaur iPad doesn’t have gps soooo…. I basically had an electronic sectional and a compass! Thanks for watching!
@@HangaRatz Ahhh... that's different. That IS dead-reckoning and pilotage! Nice video. Love the low and slow!
What airport did you fly in to in Fort Worth? That's my turf.
Based at 58T
Ah yes, mid-western visibility.
Love it!
fun --hang a 12 volt wind- gen on under wing for volts //lol
Thanks for watching!
would it be tight for 2 men your size to fit in the cabin
Two medium size would work comfortably. Cabin is decent width...
nice flight. bummer no cockpit view.
It was a good time! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for taking the time to vid a slow neat trip.
No problem 👍. More to come!
Great video, im from desmoines iowa si interesting
Thanks for watching!
Reminds me of an adventure I had when I first started flying. Soloed an Aeronca Champ Oct 4, 1962, got my PPL May 11, 1963, graduated HS Jun 7. In the interim
I built time in Colt, TriPacer, and a Cherokee. Got my Commercial license Sep 1,1964 and my first paying job Sep 3 64, taking an Ercoupe from Central Ky to St. Pete. Had an old Narco, no VOR, handcrank to tune the receiver and only 4 crystals to choose the transmitter freq; had to talk to Tampa tower for them to relay to St Pete tower. What fun!
Great stuff. Nowadays we have to just turn off a lot of things to enjoy the basics!
I loved your video. Started my Tailwheel journey in a Aeronca. Flew a Stinson 108-3 for 13 years. Sold it and miss that plane.
Flew out of a grass strip in California. Frazier Lake Airpark.
108 is a great plane. Thanks for watching!
My Dad flew an Aeronca C3 from NE PA to Enid OK in '41. War came that Dec so he sold it to some local farmer that showed up one day who peeled off 6 $100 bills. He said the only incident on the way out was an unexpectedly strong headwind in IN where he force landed on long coal pile sans fuel. Getting out was a bit dicey....
Time to spare, travel by air! Thanks for watching!
That looks like so much fun! When I was a teen, I was obsessed with aviation. Now, at 85, kinda regret never acting on it. Hard to complain too much though. I’ve done a lot of other fun stuff.
Never too late!
Great video of Midwest flying 65LA chief. I would have liked to see preflight walk around. Obviously every airplane is different but similar.
On a different track you mentioned ASI. In looking over my Dads logbook, I found that he soloed in 1937 on a J2 piper with 40 HP. In reading about J2, they apparently had no ASIs. Is this correct? How did they estimate airspeed, stall, etc? My instructors emphasized air speed in 150s, 172s, 180, ultralights, Schweitzers, Grob’s, Blaniks!
Some of the older aircraft had an exterior mechanical airspeed indicator. Google "Johnson Airspeed Indicator" Thanks for watching!
Cool video, I used to work in Ardmore…..maybe a silly question, but if you have no electrical system, how do you communicate with ATC and pick up weather or make any type of radio communication? Thanks
Not silly at all. I had a handheld radio to talk to the Class D towers. Foreflight for weather and nav on my iPad and iPhone. Thanks for watching!
HeyBill! What a great video to watch! I live in So Florida so it was nice to see Mid-America from 2500’! I am however a little confused why there was small hand held Garmin GPS with a portable bracket at 10:54 mins into the video on a interior pan shot yet later on it was removed from other another interior shot. You had said multiple times no avionics aids? Just wondering?
I ended up getting rid of that GPS as it was a hunting type in there from the previous owner. Essentially useless in the air! I just used Foreflight on my iPad. Thanks for watching!
Great trip. It brought back a lot of memories. Back in the 70's I ferried a non electric J-3 Cub from the Pittsburgh Area out to Phoenix. Have many memories of cars passing me on the highway. No GPS or foreflight in those days either so it was paper charts and IFR (I Flew Roads). A trip of a lifetime and always wanted to do it again and never had the opportunity. Thanks for bringing back great memories.
It was a fun trip! Thanks for watching!
Excellent narration! great information! Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
how much fuel did your have ?
Ten gallon tank. Short legs...
Excellent video! You did a great job. I own a J-3 Cub with a C85 so it does around 80MPH as well, so I know what slow is! haha
Right on! Great flying fun!
how did u tie it down on concrete
lift strut fittings and tailwheel overnight. Tailwheel during starting.
Hello Bill from Sydney Australia.
Did you have any concerns with the wooden propeller: laminations or glue?
One sometimes hears of old wooden props that suffer failure.
" Did you grease the hanger door tracks"?
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Hey John! No, the propeller on this aircraft was in quite good condition and fairly new. Smooth running. Go outside when you can down there! I think those tracks were last greased during the Big War!
Hi Bill I did a lot of my private lessons in a Chief back in 1956 at Coles Sky Ranch in Hobart Indiana. Thanks for the memories!
Very cool! Thanks for watching!
Cool trip. SWO was where I earned my private license many years ago while attending and graduating from Oklahoma State University. It's been a couple of years since I have been back there.
Big things happening there!
Hey Bill ! to just wanted to share the time my late Dad and his flying partner Don, flew their T Cart or Taylor Craft from San Diego to Harrisburg Pennsylvania. I still hold the a moment they shared when the fuel pump went out and forced them to land in what they were sure was a pasture , but were both surprised to see beans all over the airplane when they got out !!. Love what your doing Bill !
Thanks so much. Great story!
Thanks a bunch from an old airline pilot, who enjoyed the flying and the commentary. Good show.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!
Nice video, thanks
Fun trip. Thanks!
And you have a great voice for narration.
And a great face for radio! Thanks for watching!
@@HangaRatz LOL
I live south of Maryville a ways, so it was an added bonus for me as I watched your video. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much. Pretty country there!
Great video. Looking into getting a 7AC but wow , the prices have gone up significantly in the last few years!
Yes they are! But there are still some good deals out there. Be patient!
Has an ASI, altimeter, compass, even a tachometer. Plus a handheld GPS. Yeah, that's actually easy.
Exactly! Thanks for watching!
Enjoyed coming along with you Bill,from Calgary Alberta. Thank you.
Thanks so much!
This was great fun to watch!! Thanks so much for sharing! Best regards from Brasilia, Brazil.
Thanks so much for watching! Great to hear from the good folks of Brazil!
The hard thing about flying cross county in a Champ or Chief is planning fuel stops. My Champ has 13 gallons of fuel. Having to stop after less than a hour because you can't make it to the next airport past that stop is frustrating.
A lot of times you can't fly in a straight line to your destination!
Flew a 7AC from Charlot NC to Carson City, NV. Planning Fuel stops is one of the challenges. If you had even one 5 gallon wing tank, it would really make a difference.
What a wonderful trip! Great video!
thank you!
Great Video. I had a great time.
Thanks for coming along!
Awesome trip thanks for the ride
Thanks for watching!
Love the chickens Bill!
Ground fleet....
Dude, so cool.
Very fun trip! Thanks for watching!
Enjoyed
Thanks so much!
I like it being from Kansas; I could do without the music; can't figure out why utubies clutter ambient sounds with guitar music....... but thanks.
Thanks for watching!
the music was excellent, I am glad you balanced the volumes so we could enjoy the beautiful engine sounds...
WHAT'S ALL THIS WE SHIT?? LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE ALONE THERE!
We’ll it was me, my iPhone, and ForeFlight. I mean, three’s a party…. Thanks for watching!
he is talking to us
This the Chief in the hangar at Sycamore? Looks like a blast to fly low and slow. Great vid.
Yes it is! Thanks for watching!…