The International Cessna^® 170 Association

n2582d wrote:

cessna170bdriver wrote:This topic is one of the reasons I'm doing this:

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I'll need an engine someday, and the spare C-145 I have won't cut it. Anybody wanna buy a good fairly low time 170?

Not to change the subject but what is it Miles? An RV of some model I guess. Does the wing have twist built in from the root to the tip? Details please.

An RV-4 on sterioids, otherwise known a Harmon Rocket II. Square, straight, hershey-bar wing. No taper, no sweep, no twist. Makes jigging very straight forward. Just make the digital level reading across one end of the main spar match the other end, and clamp the rear spar to make sure the ribs are square to both spars. Cockpit is 4" wider and 4" longer than RV-4, wingspan 15" shorter, and engineered for 250-300HP IO-540.

Miles

So is it going to be green or red? Speaking of green, I'm envious! That should be a sweet ride when you're done.

yeah .....but is it gonna be any good on floats ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXTGNm5k_-I

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuQjpyqnn3o

Doesn't show how he gets in and out of it, though!

n2582d wrote:So is it going to be green or red? Speaking of green, I'm envious! That should be a sweet ride when you're done.

Where does orange fall in the red-green speed spectrum? I am, after all, a UT graduate. (the REAL one in Tennessee )

Jimmy M. wrote:yeah .....but is it gonna be any good on floats ???

Probably better than a stock 170. A friend told me that the biggest difference between his Lake Buccaneer and my 170 was that his airplane could land on the water more than once.

(BTW, did the REAL Miles Atwood Special ever fly on floats? I don't think so.

jrenwick wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXTGNm5k_-I

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuQjpyqnn3o
Doesn't show how he gets in and out of it, though!

That sure does seem like a long step up from the float to the wing. It doesn't look like he used the step available for the nosewheel models.

The video is an RV-7. The first RV amphib I know of is an RV-6 (hard for the casual observer to tell the difference):

I first saw an RV on floats at the float basin at Oshkosh about twenty years ago. I think they were straight floats and as I remember it was a side by sise model RV.

blueldr wrote:I first saw an RV on floats at the float basin at Oshkosh about twenty years ago. I think they were straight floats and as I remember it was a side by sise model RV.

RV-6 and RV-7 are both side by side. Twenty years is about how long that RV-6 has been around. According to this article, it was orginally on straight floats.