Dan Johnson
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Well, I guess the midlife crisis is here. My buddy took me flying in her Pitts recently.
I. Had. No. Idea.
I've flown 67 different airplanes in the last 27 years and none of them was quite like that. No breakout forces. No coupling. No slop. It does exactly what you ask it to and anything less than perfection isn't the airplane - it's you. So, I thought to myself: "Perhaps I'll own one of those someday." What was it John Lennon said about life is what happens to you while you're making other plans?
Found a project, bid on it, won and the airplane turned out to be fantastic. Money changed hands and the only thing left is to transport it to Texas. Here's a photo. Plans built S-1D with the fiberglass wingtips and squared off trailing edges. Freshly overhauled O-290G with a wood prop. 90% complete with 90% to go.
Anybody got any Pitts parts they'd like to part with? Looking for instruments, flying wires, cowlings, wheel pants and a canopy.
I'm open to suggestions on the paint! Perhaps yellow and black?
I. Had. No. Idea.
I've flown 67 different airplanes in the last 27 years and none of them was quite like that. No breakout forces. No coupling. No slop. It does exactly what you ask it to and anything less than perfection isn't the airplane - it's you. So, I thought to myself: "Perhaps I'll own one of those someday." What was it John Lennon said about life is what happens to you while you're making other plans?
Found a project, bid on it, won and the airplane turned out to be fantastic. Money changed hands and the only thing left is to transport it to Texas. Here's a photo. Plans built S-1D with the fiberglass wingtips and squared off trailing edges. Freshly overhauled O-290G with a wood prop. 90% complete with 90% to go.
Anybody got any Pitts parts they'd like to part with? Looking for instruments, flying wires, cowlings, wheel pants and a canopy.
I'm open to suggestions on the paint! Perhaps yellow and black?
