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Thank you guys for continuing to participate in this discussion, I appreciate your helping me get "educated, motivated, and calibrated"! I will OF COURSE have a good look inside the wing to see what

The Cougar plans call for plywood wing covering from leading edge to rear spar. Fabric covering aft of rear spar. I think most ran the plywood all the way to the trailing edge. A few used fiberglass

Wing Struts: several early W8's were built with the much smaller wing struts used on several airplanes including the Sandbag Tailwind, originally N100G. 100G is being rebuilt in CO and will have a

It is actually “Lift to my own devices..,,” [email protected]> wrote:

Left to my own devices, I'd get it flying before making any improvements or modifications. No telling how its rigging and alignments have worked out. I'd hate to put a lot of effort into an airframe

Yes, the cougar wing will not have flaps, originally designed this way to ease building time and keep weight down. In addition, the extra inch spacing on the rear spar making it smaller in size, thus

So I got some additional info on this plane from the seller, a great guy named Fred who was kind enough to have a conversation with me even before I go up there to get the airplane. Apparently the

Look for posts from Valerie re: Piper trim. She had developed a buzz in the elevator from a lose cable. Sent from my Pixel 5a [email protected]> wrote:

So there are two ways of building the wing tips, one involves building from steel tubing and simply covering w fabric or there's the newer wooden designed ones that you basically splice into the

Cat Wind,I know that original Cougar wings are constructed much differently form Tailwind wings. TW wings are plywood covered and Cougar wings are fabric covered to a large extent. There are some

I got to meet Gene Hackman once many years ago, my family's house happened to be a block away from his house, and his son went to school at the same place I did. For reasons completely irrelevant to

Thanks for the reply Greg, HOW exactly did you rebuild the cougar wing with the long tips? Are they bolted-on steel tube weldments, or are they wood mini-wings that are structurally spliced/scarfed

I rebuilt wings similar to your situation! Reading wittman articles, talking to everyone on here, the consensus about flat bottom wing tailwind/cougars and triangular w10 wing tips, is the flat bottom

Greetings from Whiteman Airport KWHP in scenic Pacoima, CA :) I've just made arrangements to go get a Cougar / Tailwind hybrid in Las Vegas within a couple of weeks. A couple of guys in the Las Vegas

My airport had a tornado go through in 2018. They put up a new fence. Just behind my hangar the bottom of the new chainlink fencing is at least a foot off of the ground so convenient to get under.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2025/april/pilot/savvy-maintenance-security-violation -- Bob Wray N115WT KABI

Uff da. Requiescat in pace. I was watching a clip of Alex Honnold (a well known climber) talking about free climbers (no ropes). He mentioned that they rarely die doing high risk stuff. It is usually

Rob crashed fatally at Langley AFB following a cross country from Nashville. No details on what happened. Rob was a long time Oshkosh performer and the most accomplished pilot in the history of

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Hi Jeff, I am pretty sure I will have the privilege of helping out with the flight testing of the Sonex High Wing, so I will be able to report first hand on flying qualities and performance numbers