Love seeing you post videos again! I used to watch all your DVDs when I was getting into flying. And I believe you and I met a few years back at Fields Station in Oregon 🤙
That old footage is absolutely gorgeous. Color rendition is way more important than resolution, and the equipment quality shows. If anything I'm bothered by the limited dynamic range, but that's an inescapable feature of early CCD technology.
Well done! The “engineer” talk is just what I like to hear. Technical enough and filled with enough information to let us understand what it takes to do your kind of flying.
Love your videos! I just sold my PA-18 to a friend. It was essentially identical to Loni's PA-18. I never could fly it as good as you or Loni- that's for sure but I had many safe trips with it! I came to respect winds- especially in the mountains- cub drivers with 1000's of hours have "bought the farm" in those conditions which tells us something! Waiting out a wind storm one strategy I used successfully is to cut willows or alders then tie them to the wing to destroy lift. And of course if you pull the plane into brush-especilly as high as the wing- it will hardly buffet from the winds. Fly safe and I look forward to more videos!
Greeting from East Coast Canada. Looks like Doug knows his plane, some awesome flying right there! Like your bushwacker, looking forward to seeing more of it...........thanks for sharing and fly safe!
I remember seeing Bushwhacker 1.0 at S21 some years ago. I really appreciated the rundown on some of the mods at the end of this video. I'm currently rebuilding my M4-220, trying to keep it as light as possible, and incorporating as many mods as "reasonably" possible (considered a Ti firewall, for example, but passed).
Too bad Bushwacker 1 got a bad break when the winds caught it later that night and wrecked her! Really sweet plane! I love watching your videos, I only recently discovered them! You sure know how to fly your bush planes! Oregon is such a beautiful place to fly over too! And Lord knows it offers some incredibly challenging places to land in a bush plane! I've watched a ton of bush plane videos done by some great pilots and including STOL competitions, but you appear to take it to a whole new level of skill considering the tight spots you get in and out of! I'm not a pilot but if I were it's the kind of flying I would love to do! But wow, at the same time, when I think about the amount of skill it would take, and the amount of confidence it would take in a person's abilities with zero tolerance for error, I doubt I'd of got there! I took some flying lessons out of Troutdale OR decades ago so I got a little taste of just how beautiful Oregon is when flying low and slower (than a commercial jet anyways). Thanks for sharing your videos and its nice to be able to watch someone in Oregon making cool bush flying videos!
"And next week I'm going to launch my hyper-mega Cub with Pratt & Whitney 760 hp turbine and 48" wheels." (planning to launch with nose up against tree, climb the smooth side of bark and depart at 90-degree angle for first 1,000 ft)... 🤣
Thanks for the video. Great footage. I like seeing your older videos and clips from your DVDs but would like to see your new stuff as well. If possible it would be nice to see videos that give some bush flying instruction, tips and tricks as well.
I live in the southeast where there's not many off airport places to land. And I work too much and so not many chances to go on adventures, so I really appreciate your trips. Allows me to enjoy them vicariously at least. And I own a 180 Maule so I enjoy hearing what you've done to yours. I have aspirations to upgrade mine at some point.
@@sonshinelight Greg has more experience than I do but my understanding is that there is a trade off between the extra horsepower and the extra weight. By my reading, the 180 will break ground at about the same point but it won't climb out as fast. And that is accentuated the heavier you are. I have a friend with a 235 (that has been modified and now more than 235 hp) and he definitely climbs out better than I do.
@@martinlynn3699 Im seriously considering a Maule as my #1 son and i have similar mission goals. Just unclear of the correlation between take off/ landing distance and horsepower. Brent Maule toured me around the factory once several years ago, and im sold on the aircraft, but then you start hearing about Airframes Alaska and 4 place "super cubs" and i get wondering "Hmmmm.." Im in Fort St. John, BC
Interested in the Husky flap hangars. Can they be retrofitted to the Piper flap hangars? And is this Doug Keller of the Keller flap? If it is why did he chose the Husky flap over the split Fowler flap for this build or is this before he designed the split flap?
I am not a believer in 3hp maybe 10-15% better flow which would equal 1.-1.5 hp per cylinder. I got those numbers from Hatch Engine years ago when I approached them about doing an engine. They did dyno work on lots of builds and that is what I got from them.
I figured you would be read in. Speed shops love to claim hp gains with out dyno charts. Typically a dead giveaway of inflated numbers. I wish it were true though or that there were aftermarket heads like in the auto world. Where cnc porting makes a significant difference.
It is not (not) a Husky wing. It is a Super Cub wing, squared off (extended past the original wing bow). The flaps are Husky parts which are a semi-Fowler slotted flap. Hope that makes sense... This was Doug Keller's airplane. Doug is the one that came up with certifying the Double Slotted flaps for the Super Cub PA-18 which Airframes Alaska now owns the STC for.
The other video with the duct tape repair . Im shocked whoever flew that out must not care about life because no way I would have done that. I have A kid and wife. . In other words Im shocked the cub can lift that pilots nuts!
That was the short version? I'ma kill myself. It sounds like the crash came because you tried to 'roll' wings level. I will tell anyonez in that situation to use rudder to right yourself. Think about it to see this is true. It is, in fact, how I have avoided the dreadful prang.
Love seeing you post videos again! I used to watch all your DVDs when I was getting into flying. And I believe you and I met a few years back at Fields Station in Oregon 🤙
Trent Palmer I know that name always enjoy your vids your the one that got me thinking about bush plane 👍
Thanks Trent, I need some lessons from you in how to make good videos. I like seeing how you incorporate your life in your own videos...
Trent you and @mauleguy need to colab, that would be a pretty sweet video.
That old footage is absolutely gorgeous. Color rendition is way more important than resolution, and the equipment quality shows. If anything I'm bothered by the limited dynamic range, but that's an inescapable feature of early CCD technology.
Well done! The “engineer” talk is just what I like to hear. Technical enough and filled with enough information to let us understand what it takes to do your kind of flying.
Thank you
Gonads the size of those balloon tires. Nice video.
Thank you
Love your videos! I just sold my PA-18 to a friend. It was essentially identical to Loni's PA-18. I never could fly it as good as you or Loni- that's for sure but I had many safe trips with it! I came to respect winds- especially in the mountains- cub drivers with 1000's of hours have "bought the farm" in those conditions which tells us something! Waiting out a wind storm one strategy I used successfully is to cut willows or alders then tie them to the wing to destroy lift. And of course if you pull the plane into brush-especilly as high as the wing- it will hardly buffet from the winds. Fly safe and I look forward to more videos!
Thank you!
That 180 hp lycoming is the deal That's what's in my 172 on floats. Hell yeah that thing is gone 👍
Excellent. It was a real treat to see Bushwacker again! (I immediately recognized the thumbnail)
Cool
Greeting from East Coast Canada. Looks like Doug knows his plane, some awesome flying right there! Like your bushwacker, looking forward to seeing more of it...........thanks for sharing and fly safe!
Thanks 👍
I remember seeing Bushwhacker 1.0 at S21 some years ago. I really appreciated the rundown on some of the mods at the end of this video. I'm currently rebuilding my M4-220, trying to keep it as light as possible, and incorporating as many mods as "reasonably" possible (considered a Ti firewall, for example, but passed).
Excellent
Too bad Bushwacker 1 got a bad break when the winds caught it later that night and wrecked her! Really sweet plane! I love watching your videos, I only recently discovered them! You sure know how to fly your bush planes! Oregon is such a beautiful place to fly over too! And Lord knows it offers some incredibly challenging places to land in a bush plane!
I've watched a ton of bush plane videos done by some great pilots and including STOL competitions, but you appear to take it to a whole new level of skill considering the tight spots you get in and out of!
I'm not a pilot but if I were it's the kind of flying I would love to do! But wow, at the same time, when I think about the amount of skill it would take, and the amount of confidence it would take in a person's abilities with zero tolerance for error, I doubt I'd of got there! I took some flying lessons out of Troutdale OR decades ago so I got a little taste of just how beautiful Oregon is when flying low and slower (than a commercial jet anyways). Thanks for sharing your videos and its nice to be able to watch someone in Oregon making cool bush flying videos!
Great to see you putting videos up again. I enjoy the flying content, but would also enjoy any engineering / building / maintenance content as well.
Thanks for the feedback, keep the ideas coming. Stay tuned
Love the footage and the stories!! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it
"And next week I'm going to launch my hyper-mega Cub with Pratt & Whitney 760 hp turbine and 48" wheels." (planning to launch with nose up against tree, climb the smooth side of bark and depart at 90-degree angle for first 1,000 ft)... 🤣
:))
No worries about the video quality, just keep the content coming! Love it all
Thanks! Will do!
beautiful airplane and impressive build
Really liking your videos.
Thank you
Thank you for sharing.
My pleasure!
I would like as much training content from you as possible. Thank you.
Working on it!
“I don’t hydroplane often, but when I do, my golden egg laying goose has had a good day”.
:))
Thanks for the video. Great footage. I like seeing your older videos and clips from your DVDs but would like to see your new stuff as well. If possible it would be nice to see videos that give some bush flying instruction, tips and tricks as well.
I will get on that sooooon
The man is back!
:))
I live in the southeast where there's not many off airport places to land. And I work too much and so not many chances to go on adventures, so I really appreciate your trips. Allows me to enjoy them vicariously at least. And I own a 180 Maule so I enjoy hearing what you've done to yours. I have aspirations to upgrade mine at some point.
Excellent, us mauleguy's have to stick together : ))
@@mauleguy Amen, brother.
Wouldnt a Maule M7 with a 235 or 260 hp do even better? Or would that just get too heavy?
@@sonshinelight Greg has more experience than I do but my understanding is that there is a trade off between the extra horsepower and the extra weight. By my reading, the 180 will break ground at about the same point but it won't climb out as fast. And that is accentuated the heavier you are. I have a friend with a 235 (that has been modified and now more than 235 hp) and he definitely climbs out better than I do.
@@martinlynn3699 Im seriously considering a Maule as my #1 son and i have similar mission goals. Just unclear of the correlation between take off/ landing distance and horsepower. Brent Maule toured me around the factory once several years ago, and im sold on the aircraft, but then you start hearing about Airframes Alaska and 4 place "super cubs" and i get wondering "Hmmmm.." Im in Fort St. John, BC
Enjoyed your vid nice planes good flying 👍
Thank you
PAINFUL TO SEE THAT BIRD UPSIDE DOWN !!
REALLY enjoy the vids Sir !!
yes it was
Nice!
That’s one way to change a tire
Love all the info.
Thanks, I like all the feedback I have been getting.
Great
Love the videos!
Glad to hear it!
Interested in the Husky flap hangars. Can they be retrofitted to the Piper flap hangars? And is this Doug Keller of the Keller flap? If it is why did he chose the Husky flap over the split Fowler flap for this build or is this before he designed the split flap?
Yes it is, He had not came up with the split flap at the point when this cub was built
what do you think about the CNC porting LYCON offers? I think they are claiming 3+ hp per cylinder.
I am not a believer in 3hp maybe 10-15% better flow which would equal 1.-1.5 hp per cylinder. I got those numbers from Hatch Engine years ago when I approached them about doing an engine. They did dyno work on lots of builds and that is what I got from them.
I figured you would be read in. Speed shops love to claim hp gains with out dyno charts. Typically a dead giveaway of inflated numbers. I wish it were true though or that there were aftermarket heads like in the auto world. Where cnc porting makes a significant difference.
Do you have to follow standard faa procedures if there’s ever an accident in one of those?
your suppose to
CP AP 52yrs.
Im curious about the 33 pitch vs rpm.
How does it work out?
Thanks.👍😁
Big propeller on small hp , it turns 2450 rpm on takeoff under a load.
Let’s hear more about the Husky wing. Larger sq. footage?
It is not (not) a Husky wing. It is a Super Cub wing, squared off (extended past the original wing bow). The flaps are Husky parts which are a semi-Fowler slotted flap. Hope that makes sense... This was Doug Keller's airplane. Doug is the one that came up with certifying the Double Slotted flaps for the Super Cub PA-18 which Airframes Alaska now owns the STC for.
When you say the tires weigh 37-39 lbs, is that with the wheel or just the rubber? Thanks
Just the rubber, they are actually heavier now at 45 pounds
Hi Greg, loving your videos, trying to learn from them, just got a 170 with 180HP and mods for bush flying.
What is the empty weight of Bushwacker?
It weighed 1325 on 35" ABW with a Lycoming O-360C1A (10-1 pistons) and 90" propeller pitched to 33
@@mauleguy thanks, that's pretty light.
@@mauleguy отлично спасибо
3 airplanes! Moneybags Malone!
Only two but I do feel grateful
you trained good enough on ground so you can try to land on the top tree
🤠👍
i wish modify tires on himax or skypup.
Nice video. What do you do for a living to support this disease. :)
Self employed, machine shop. I make airplane and helicopter parts
@@mauleguy правильно малый бизнесс
The other video with the duct tape repair . Im shocked whoever flew that out must not care about life because no way I would have done that. I have A kid and wife. . In other words Im shocked the cub can lift that pilots nuts!
That's why I turned off comments.
volume too low.
Turn up the hearing aid, LOL. I will try better next time.
That was the short version? I'ma kill myself. It sounds like the crash came because you tried to 'roll' wings level. I will tell anyonez in that situation to use rudder to right yourself. Think about it to see this is true. It is, in fact, how I have avoided the dreadful prang.