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You guys are doing a really beautiful job on your Champ. While I might be in the minority, I like your paint scheme much better than the original. Where are you from? Mike I really do not like the original yellow paint with an orange kidney painted on the outside. It looks weird. There is one paint...

I actually just ordered 7's. thanks for the advice. Here is a picture of the paint we put on today http://dbandkjp.smugmug.com/Airplanes/N85068/i-pvdFcTd/0/M/2011-11-0916-36-04741-M.jpg http://dbandkjp.smugmug.com/Airplanes/N85068/i-cPjcs4p/0/M/2011-11-0916-36-31814-M.jpg I think it turned out reall...

I looked at the TCDS and don't see 8.50 x 6 tires listed, but there are 8.00 X 6. Maybe that the size we'll go with.

We almost have our 75 HP 7AC back together and are looking at tires for it. It seems we can legally install 850 x 6 tires on it, and I think they would look good and work well on some of the soft and bumpy grass strips around here. Has anyone on here used a tire this size on a 75 HP Champ? Would I l...

I restored my champ and put in the interior after covering, what I did was turn the fuselage upsidedown and let gravity hold everything in place, but if I had it to do over I would'nt do it, I'd just paint it all and leave the headliner out, be able to get at everything, and save weight, maybe a sk...

joea wrote:

DavidB. wrote:

jbaker wrote:I was raised by wolves who ate my birthparents, which were truckers.

Thats why you are flying a Champ. If you were flying a Chief or Sedan then your parents would be Thor and Freya!

LOL.

Thanks for the pictures. You look like your doing a fine job. When I looked at the pictures of you and, I assume, your son it reminded me of a time I was going through some rough spots and my son showed up with a wrecked C170 on a trailer. "We'll rebuild it together" and after five nights...

I am in Chelan Washington. It wouldn't be too hard to make, we have done that sort of thing quite a bit. I am just wondering how it is attached when the fuslage is already covered. We didn't need to recover the whole aircraft just some repair and did the control surfaces. I had been recovered in the...

Hello everyone, It has been a while since I have been to this forum. We have been working hard on our 1946 7AC and are almost ready for paint. We want to replace the interior and started puling it out but realized the last time it was done it was installed before the fabrice was put on the fuslage. ...

I went and saw it with my partner in it, and the IA. I am buying it, and hope to fly it by May at the latest. Everything checked out better than expected.

Thanks for answering my questions. I wasn't thinking and had a few lines in my OP that I would rather not have foating out on the internet. Sorry for the delete.