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Sherlock

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I thought some BCF folks might like this photo, taken 1962 in the far north of Canada (likely nearby Inuvik, NWT if any of you know where that is)

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And here is a link to a large version of the image

And apparently the airplane is a Cessna 180 Skywagon, and I've found out the company on the side of the airplane is still in business up there, sorry to bore you /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif just boring tidbits, I like to researh my old photos...
 
Yup, looks like a 180. An acquaintance of mine is flying those up there now (actually he's flying a 185 on skis, essentially the same thing).
 
As I understand, there is nothing wrong with an old airplane, as long as they are well maintained... That company might still be flying that plane for all I know... I actually want to get in touch with the company to let them know about this photo
 
Aircraft intresting, music excellent.
 
Here's a J3 Cub (below) on skis that I've flown (hard to steer on the ground and no brakes either).
I've also been in ~This Huskey~ (but only on wheels)

I think you're right....that plane is a 180, but some Cessna ski-plane are converted 172s (often called "Texas taildraggers"). Either way, I love tail-wheel airplanes, especially on turf (I'd love to fly that P51 off a grass field).


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Sherlock said:
As I understand, there is nothing wrong with an old airplane, as long as they are well maintained...
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I'd say that's true for any airplane, new or old. The main, critical item is the engine - and once they're 5-10 years old or get a certain amount of time on them everything is on a level playing field. You can have a 5 year old airplane that has an aging high-time engine with problems, but also a 60 year old airplane with a new trouble free engine. One can be a maintenance nightmare and cost a fortune to keep up (until you get a new engine), the other can be a maintenance dream for another 5-10 years. The year the airplane was built doesn't always have a lot to do with it.
 
Great photo, Sherlock! Do you think they are on a frozen lake? Since this was pre-multi-grade oils, I hope they diluted the oil the night before!

I had a student who had a 180, but it wasn't on skis, it was on amphibious floats in the summer and wheels in the winter! He gave seaplane instruction in it.

We let him use the hangar to change over in the fall and spring while he was enrolled. That was a project. You have to hoist the whole airplane from above while you change gear.

That 180 is at the bottom of the Potomac now. He wrecked during a float take-off. My grad then swam a half mile to shore still wearing his headset. The headset still worked after this and he wrote David Clark a letter about it. They used his letter in an ad about how tough their headsets are.
 
Love old airplanes.

Some day, I plan on getting my PPL, or maybe a Sport Pilot license first, and getting an old Cub, Taylorcraft, Luscombe or Aeronca just for fun flying.

Right now, I spend alot of time with the Cub on Flight Simulator X.
 
Bugeye, that Gloster Gladiator was too cool for words!

Could have done without the music, though. It kept drowning out the engine sound.
 
@Two Sheds

That Cessna might even be on sea ice... Inuvik (where the company that owned this plane is based) is pretty much the northern end of the North American land mass...

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This photo was taken prior to the construction of the road, but there is now a gravel highway that goes to Inuvik, the furthest north public road on the continent.

Now I suppose that photo could have been taken anywhere in the north, not necessarily just Inuvik...
 
Was raised in a Taylorcraft and multiple Cessnas... got the aviation curse from the genes, as well as the LBC one.

Career is aviation and hobby is LBC's so I'm screwed all the way around!
 
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