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Right you are, and it seems people are still trying to resurrect old
planes at high prices, like the Micco/Meyers and the Tiger. Nice planes, but... Anyway, glad there are parts around and for what it's worth, to me it sounds like Classic Aero is in the right on this one. What about the Navion's odd little sibling the Twin Navion? Does it have parts commonality with the rest of the Navion clan? "Ron Natalie" wrote in message om... Around 1996 or so, a group in Bowling Green, OH managed to snag the remains of Navion Aircraft. They hunted venture capital to see if they could start up the line again. I guess that didn't succeed (frankly, it's the same old problem, they were going to build Rangemasters, and why anybody would want a draggy cabin retract at that price is beyond me |
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"PiperSeneca@" wrote in message om... Right you are, and it seems people are still trying to resurrect old planes at high prices, like the Micco/Meyers and the Tiger. Nice planes, but... Anyway, glad there are parts around and for what it's worth, to me it sounds like Classic Aero is in the right on this one. What about the Navion's odd little sibling the Twin Navion? Does it have parts commonality with the rest of the Navion clan? There are actually two different twin Navions the Riley's and the Camairs. All twin Navion's started out as canopy singles. They essentially hang the wing engines on, remove the front engine (evidentally, in some cases in that order, there's a picture floating around of a Navion "tri-motor" but I don't believe it actually flew that way), and redo the tail (larger vertical stab/rudder and rudder trim). Yes there are a lot of common parts. Actually the first bunch of conversions were just essentialy "field mods." It is rumored that this "mod" was what led the CAA to come up with the STC process... |
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:58:05 -0400, "Ron Natalie"
wrote: snip Underseat or Baggage compartment? These were factory mods and are on the original single engine type certificate. Underseat. He tried to explain it to the Federales in that manner, but the install wasn't documented anywhere. I think the whole Camair thing had them flustered from the get-go. I worked a couple nagging gripes on the "demo" Rangemaster a few years back. The really funny one was varying/high idle speed. Don't understand that. Should be a rather straight forward IO-520 installation. Nope, this sucker (the "demo" ship) had been modified numerous times in varying manners. I only worked on it a couple times, don't know all the details. It had a Piper single throttle quadrant installed, but the gear/throttle warning switch was mounted near the carburetor (instead of in the quadrant Piper-style). Carburator? What the hell did they use for an engine in these things. No Rangemaster ever had a carburator. They also never had throttle quadrants. Only the twins had those. OK, so it might have been an up-draft injector unit. It's been too long, I can't say for sure that it had a Continental engine. It definitely had been fitted with an retract Piper single quadrant. I popped the cover off of it and showed the "marketing consultant" that was flying the 'plane the holes where Piper mounted the throttle/gear warning switch, even gave the guy the p/n for the proper switch. This airplane was far from a "stock" configuration. snip Only other thing I remember was the owner squealing like a pig when I told him I wanted to replace the diaphram in his prop (was older than I was at the time). He was extremely lucky. I never got more than a couple of years out of the diaphram at a time. I think Hartzell only claims they're good for 3 years anyhow. Got the drill down, pull the spinner, unhook the actuator linkage, remove the pin, unscrew the big nut, pull the prop. Unscrew the retainers for the diaphram, replace, resafety wire all those dang screws and put the prop back on... I can dig it. When I figured out how long that thing had been in there, it scared the crap out of me. Didn't fly it 'til after the inspection/diaphram replacement (was "out" of annual when I yanked it out of the hangar). I really enjoyed flying it. The radios were ancient, but everything was "there", it met the Federal requirements for an annual inspection (barely)- was in dire need of some TLC. TC |
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