Another Just Out Of Curiosity

[lowNslow]

Gary, do you have a hangar at KMPI (Mariposa,CA) for your project??

[n2582d]

Gary, do you have a hangar at KMPI (Mariposa,CA) for your project??

Karl,
I'm working on it in my shop at home. When I bought it the mechanic that was maintaining it said that I should have it flying in a couple of weeks. That was nine years ago. I'm a very slow worker! I recently fabricated a new outboard aux. spar and bought five new stringers for the left wing pictured below -- all to replace improper repairs previously made. This mechanic who said I should have the plane flying in a couple of weeks had his A&P license pulled by the FAA after I bought the plane. That doesn't inspire too much confidence in his field overhaul of the engine so I'll be disassembling it to check that everything is kosher there.

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[lowNslow]

Well it looks like you just about have ready to fly. I fly into Mariposa once and while and thought I would drop by your hangar if you had one, maybe buck a few rivets for you but I can see all your missing is some paint.

[GAHorn]

... This mechanic who said I should have the plane flying in a couple of weeks had his A&P license pulled by the FAA after I bought the plane. That doesn't inspire too much confidence in his field overhaul of the engine so I'll be disassembling it to check that everything is kosher there. ...

Hope you don't find yourself in a PICKLE there!

[n2582d]

Hope you don't find yourself in a PICKLE there!

Yeah, in hindsight on this rebuild I should have gone with Dill ... I mean Del.

Well it looks like you just about have ready to fly. I fly into Mariposa once and while and thought I would drop by your hangar if you had one, maybe buck a few rivets for you but I can see all your missing is some paint.

Karl, do stop by if you're in the area. If I'm not on the road at work you (or other C-170 assoc. members) are more than welcome to borrow our Honda van to visit Yosemite--the wildflowers are in bloom this time of year. But watch out--I may have you stripping paint when you return the van! Just kidding.

Looks like I have completed the hijacking of this thread. To get back to the subject, or at least closer to it, how about our international members? How far from home have you taken your C-170? Does Jan Wood, the lady that flew her C-170B most of the way around the world, have any competition?

[Roesbery]

In a 170B N1831C, E, Lake Winnipesaukee, NH, Jan '78', S, Memphis, Tenn, Jan '78' W, Nome, AK, July '78', N, Umiat, AK, July '78' Where has all the time gone????????????

[Harold Holiman]

Gary, I never heard of Jan Wood flying a 170B most of the way around the world. However, Jerri Mock did fly her 1953 180 solo completely around the world in 1965 or 1966. When I had my 180 I called it my "overgrown 170".

Harold

[blueldr]

Harold,
You're right about Jerrie Mock. She left Columbus , Ohio, on 19 MARCH 1964 and landed back there on 17 April 1964.
This petite,thirty eight year old mother of three strapped her family Cessna 180 on her delicate b--- and flew around the world,
eastbound,solo, in twenty nine days.
No airliner type airplane. No professional navigator. Didn't bust her airplane up while trying the first time.
Strangely enough, almost no one, particularly women in aviation, seems to know who Jerrie Mock is.
Everyone knows the one who didn't make it.
This woman really had guts. I've flown the stretch between Honolulu and Oakland numerous times each way, but I almost always
did it during the day, and I had four engines and a copilot and a flight engineer to help me.
I can't immagine taking off from Honolulu at sundown on a night, over ocean, flight for Oakland over 2400 miles away in a C-180.
Her book, "Three Eight Charlie" is a great read. It was published in 1970 and my copy is a first addition and was priced at $6.95
when it was published.
If you can find one now, they run about $300.00.
I tried to find a copy of her book in the library and their computer locator found only one copy in California at the public library in
San Francisco. My daughters got me my very own copy for Christmas.

[n2582d]

Gary, I never heard of Jan Wood flying a 170B most of the way around the world. However, Jerri Mock did fly her 1953 180 solo completely around the world in 1965 or 1966. When I had my 180 I called it my "overgrown 170".

Harold

Harold,
I had never heard of either of these ladies until a couple of years ago either. I first heard of Jan Wood in a C-170 assoc. newsletter two years ago. (Look on page 8 of the online archived edition of the 1st quarter 2008 170 News.) Here's where we discussed this back in 2008. Here's what she wrote up for a WASP website. It would be interesting to learn more about Jan's trip. I don't know how her health is now at around 88 years old but wouldn't she make a fascinating speaker at our annual convention?

[GAHorn]

... I've flown the stretch between Honolulu and Oakland numerous times each way, but I almost always
did it during the day, and I had four engines and a copilot and a flight engineer to help me....

They were there to keep you awake!

....I can't immagine taking off from Honolulu at sundown on a night, over ocean, flight for Oakland over 2400 miles away ....

I wouldn't want to see all that water either!

[hilltop170]

(I'll wager Richard Pulley has got a good shot at being the winner of this quest.)

I don't know about that but here are my farthest operations. Not all in a C-170 but 3 out of 4 in Cessna taildraggers. I flew to Dutch in a twin.

North: PASC, Deadhorse Airport, Deadhorse, Alaska, 70°11.685' N, in a C-180A

South: KHRL, Valley International Airport, Harlingen, Texas, 26°13.71' N, in a C-170A

East: KCQX, Chatham Municipal Airport, Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 69°59.371' W, in a C-195

West: DUT, UNALASKA (Dutch Harbor), AK, Aleutian Islands, 166°32.61' W, in an Aerostar 601P

[wingnut]

Well, let's include us mechanics who have disassembled and hauled damaged aircraft;

West; La Verne, CA., Brackett Field, a Maule in 2005
South; Ft. Lauderdale Executive, a Seneca in 1996
East; East Hamton Long Island, F33A Bonanza in 1999
North; Luverne, MN., Cessna 182 last year

Highest; Monarch Pass coming back home the long way with the Maule.

Most fun;
1. coming all the way back from Sugarland TX without removing the tail feathers from a 172, (one inch shy of 11 feet).
2. coming back from Angel Fire NM going thru a check station while the DOT guy ducked his head to clear the hor stab on a 172.
3. Going thru Mass, NY, NJ with 3 loaded guns, (Smith 44 Mag 8-3/8", Delta Elite 10mm, and a 357 lever action rifle) none of us knowing the other had brought one too, and the vertical of an A36 hitting the clearance sign as we went accross the toll bridge on the Delaware river near Bethlehem PA. The attendant ask "are you guys sure that thing ain't to tall?"
4. Getting 2 feds to pose in front of a V35, which we had temporarily ratchet strapped a wheelbarrow under the cowl as a makeshift nosegear

Lots of good memories

[minton]

EAST Shemya, AK (PASY) 174/06/49 E x 52/42/44 N
Attu, AK (BGAT) 173/11/10 E x 52/50/47 N
WEST Adak, AK (PADK) /176/38/46 W x 51/52/41 N
NORTH Barrow, AK (BRW) 71/17/44 N x 156/45/59 W
SOUTH Christmas Island, Kiribas (YPXM) 10/27/02 S x 105/41/25 E

BL will recognize some of these.

[johneeb]

North Anchorage 61.09.08n
South Miami 25.48.56n
West Anchorage 149.59.28w
East Gander 54.32.26w (Courtesy Al Qaeda)

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[blueldr]

My northern limit was Barrow, AK, in a C-64 Noorduyn Norseman. About 72 North.
My eastern was Prince Edward Island in my C-170B. About 63 west.
My southern and western limit was Kwajalein Atol in a DC-6A at about 168 east and 8 north.
Even though Kwajalein is east of the date line, I call my western limit since I approached it from the east.
In my C-170B, my western and northern limit was Fairbanks, AK.
My southern limit in the C-170B was probably El Paso, TX.
I flew an Aero Commander Twin between Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan for a guy in Guam, but I didn' fly
to Guam except as a passenger. It was a sort of part 123 operation with no FAA oversight. They were clear
back in Hawaii.
I was on active duty in the Air Force and flew it when I was off duty. The base commander got word of it and called me in to give
me hell for screwing some local civilian out of a job. I had to explain to him tha nobody on Guam, other than the guy I worked for,
had a pilot certificate of even had a clue on how to fly an airplane. The guy who owned the airplane had a commercial and multi
engine (just barely) but was afraid to fly it. I think he got his ME in one of those twin engined Aeroncas. I don't know what he did
after I rotated back to the ZI.