Dean Siracusa

The only alternative to crawling back to the tail and greasing it from the inside is to grease it from the outside. First, I found a few things that make greasing from the inside a bit easier. Raise the tail to level, remove belt, shoes and anything that will get caught on anything and make sure you have everything before you go in! While in…[Read more]

The only alternative to crawling back to the tail and greasing it from the inside is to grease it from the outside. First, I found a few things that make greasing from the inside a bit easier. Raise the tail to level, remove belt, shoes and anything that will get caught on anything and make sure you have everything before you go in! While in…[Read more]

Donald,

Congrats to your dad for restoring and preserving a great piece of American aviation history! I’m glad that your OTW is alive and well. With your experience you shouldn’t have any problems with the OTW on pavement. If you can fly a Champ, you can fly the OTW. It’s an elegant lady!

In lieu of a published crosswind component, it comes down…[Read more]

Re fresh air: at least in early versions (I own s/n 254) there is an opening at the base of the inclined bulkhead at the rear of the hatshelf. This opening is rectangular and about 3 sq. in. It exhausts cabin air into the tail cone, and modestly helps airflow through the cabin. It is often covered with upholstery. Mine has a cover perforated…[Read more]

Excellent! Not easy getting stuff approved for these old girls so glad you got it done.

Mark-did you get this approved? I ended up doing an 830 and left the analogs in place on 196M

Definitely agree Dean.

Matt-I have not seen one. My interior was just out and the vents to the back are fed through the front and are fabric bags that are in the side panels and connected to the vents. The front vents are scat tubes. my rear are just ‘ok’, and that may be to insulation I added when i had the interior done that may impeded the bags fully inflating.

Sent you a message thanks