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I've got a good stalker story, this must've been 3 years ago. Took a long lunch and flew around for half an hour. Got a phone call on my way back to work but didn't recognize the number so I left it go to voicemail. One of the previous owners of my Swift from the early 60's had been on one of...

I saw it happen on a trailer about 15 years ago. It was a loaded 4 place snowmobile trailer with dual axles. Came up behind it on the interstate and I could see the left rear wheel fiercely wobbling and sparks coming from something under it (at night). In my mind there was no way the driver...

I think I still have a Swift, I haven't seen it since December! Picked the perfect year to get the engine overhauled. Mine is polished with an O-300, big tires up front and small nonsteerable tailwheel so seeing over the nose can be interesting at times. I bought mine without ever having...

It was in the plane when I got it. I laughed the first time I saw it but I'll be damned if I wasn't using it while taking this picture 2 hours later! They're less than 10 bucks on Amazon and fold flat when not in use so they're out of the way. Also works pretty good to hold a cell phone.

Thought I remembered reading this topic before. I'm guessing OP posted the same question on ye old Reddit because the answers here weren't good enough. OP also wanted to know on there if they can volunteer to be a fighter pilot for Ukraine. :eek:

More opening clearance for when you put your plane on amphibious floats. I have a Hi Fold one piece hydraulic door, works great!

I've done it a couple times, always late summer/early fall. Never taken the kids though, now that they're bigger I probably would if I bought a life raft. Engine ran rough and made weird noises in the middle of the lake every time I did it. :eek:

It obviously says "dn" with an arrow pointing down. :D

That's funny! I was sitting on the end of 25 in the Lake when you did that!

Weather here was beautiful on Sunday, CAVU with maybe a 10-15 mph wind. Went to the airport and the 2" or so of snow we got the day before was still everywhere, usually they'll at least plow the runways but they didn't this time. I cleared enough to push myself out of the hangar and had a...

Some of the local RV places rent out campers and will park them in Camp Scholler too as another option instead of a tent.

My take on it personally is if I wanted to build or fix airplanes, I'd have bought an experimental. I do the easy legal stuff like oil changes, I've done a couple tubes and tires. Doing the bigger stuff, by the time I buy the specialty tool needed to do whatever repair, waste a weekend trying...

Swifts are around 400 still flying according to the Swift Museum Foundation, and I'd bet of the list mentioned earlier they're the most plentiful from it by far.

My winter setup. NOS Survival suit bought on Ebay for $100, leather headset "helmet" for me, a pair of wool socks and some thin gloves. The suit isn't overly puffy or bulky. The heater in the Swift isn't much to begin with and you can see the high quality sealing of the windows and ceiling...

Soooo.. In the article picture are the two guys in the epaulets pointing at each other or doing the "smell my finger" pose?

I think its a problem with Firefox. I was (and tried again, still am) having that same error with Firefox. Tried another browser and I'm in.

Like the opposite of the Maule taking off from inside a hangar!

Posting for the annual Swift Museum Foundation raffle. This year you can finally buy tickets online! https://rafflecreator.com/pages/25154/swift-museum-foundation---2021-fundraising-program Grand Prize is $20,000 cash, or $30,000 credit with Lycon for an engine overhaul Second prize - Stratus...

I spent a night in a hotel this past winter waiting to get home.. You'd think the choice would be easy but man I sat at the airport for two hours agonizing over the decision! For me it was blowing snow. I did some flight training an hour's flight from home, so I had already flown an hour...

I just saw this one on craigslist the other day, based at my airport. At 27k its in your price range anyway! https://greenbay.craigslist.org/avo/d/maribel-1947-j3-piper-cub/7382056631.html