Airline Pilots in Old Taildraggers
 

I'm starting this topic by request after seriously threadjacking the MD88 flying & lifestyle thread. Let's talk old airplanes and the various shenanigans one can get into when away from the Part 121 fishbowl :-) I'll start it off with a fun video of a Stinson 108 flying into the Dewey Moore airstrip in the Idaho backcountry. Only 700 feet long at 4500' elevation!



...and then there's Mile-Hi....

I fly a C-47 for the Yankee Air Force out of KYIP, she's a 1945 build C-47D ,part of the last batch squeezed out of Oke City before the line stopped. After years of flying freight together the Douglas and I are old friends, and I am blessed to still fly her. Tailwheels,and round engines, are still what it's all about.

My husband and I just bought a 1946 Luscombe 8a. 65 horse, rag wing, no electrical. 90 kts on 4gph. Can't wait to go pick it up!

Been there, done that many times in a SuperCub. Still do! I'm sure that most of these guys have no idea what a taildragger is!:) The same thing with "round dials".

I only wish I had some video of my early exploits when I flew for the 65 Horse Air Force.

All the low levels, all the cow bombing runs, all the low strafing passes of my girlfriends dorm, the beach landings, all the toilet paper cutting and the flower sack bombings.

Nothing like flying a tail wheel off a grass strip with nobody around to turn you in!

Here's a vid I made in our club's old Cub while out on medical leave a couple years ago (yay LSA rule):



1 gopro, several flights. Friend's first time landing a taildragger made for some fun bounces :-)

Very cool! Got any pics?

If I could make a living flying my Clip-Wing Cub I'd quit tomorrow!

- HH

The same here, real honest flying.:(

Attachment 1833Here she is !!!