Post your Homebuilt's Picture!

It's been pretty quiet here, lately. Let's post some pictures of our homebuilts.

Here's one I took a couple of years back:

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/rainier3.jpg

This is my Fly Baby sitting on the grass at Pierce County Airport in Puyallup, Washington, with Mt. Rainier in the background. I photoshopped-out some light standards at the treeline.

There's a secret to taking pictures of your airplane with far-off features like mountains. What you want to do is get a long way from the airplane and use a telephoto lens to shoot both the plane and the mountain. That'll blow the airplane up, but it ALSO enlarges the feature in the background. Otherwise, you end up with a nice shot of your airplane, but a tiny bump in behind it.

Ron Wanttaja

Very nice pic Ron. Have you ever flown around or over Mt. Rainier?

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Originally Posted by Floatsflyer

Very nice pic Ron. Have you ever flown around or over Mt. Rainier?

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Around, yes, but not near or even all that close. I grew up and learned to fly in the very flat area of eastern North Dakota, and big lumps on the ground like this bother the heck out of me.

Plus, of course, the options for a forced landing are very, very thin.

The mountain itself is just outside the Class B airspace for Seattle, which would also complicate gaining height before getting close. Not something Pete had to contend with, in his day....
http://www.bowersflybaby.com/fb_rainier.jpg

Same day I took the picture in my original post, someone shot one me on approach....
http://www.bowersflybaby.com/rainier_flyby.jpg

Ron "Cluck Cluck Cluck" Wanttaja

Here’s mine right after painting:
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Another one from OSH 2018:
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Funny, for all the pictures I have of my Hatz, most have poor or distracting backgrounds. But I like this one:

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My tenure in the Starduster was short but memorable. This is camping under the wing, bringing the plane home from Tennessee to Connecticut:

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But my daughter's the real photographer in the family. Needed pictures of my Fisher 404 for a magazine article, so she came out and took several hundred, a few stand out:

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If you're looking for art, page down.:D

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From the deep dark past (1979) with the airplane somewhat unfinished, photo taken at Casement Airport, Painesville, OH. The nosedragger in the background is unfortunate but the ratty hangars are cool.

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Another of the same Pitts in 1983.

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I don't have any good ones of this airplane (an original design) -- cluttered background as usual.

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This shows the prop to good effect.

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This shows the prop to good effect.

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WOW , that is one long prop.

it looks like it would hit when the tail is lifted

Gotta Fly...

100" diameter with only a couple of inches of ground clearance level on the mains. Turned 1900rpm. Takeoff and land three point.

Here is my Cabin Eagle. Almost complete and ready for inspection.
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Fokker D.VII wannabe and the current ride to the airport:

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Backcountry SQ-2, finished in 2014 @ Icy Bay, Taan Fjord, Sept 2019 by Ted Waltman
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TwinJAG...my Corvair powered twin!
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O-200 powered Stretched KR-2 (KR-2S). Completed in 1997, currently at 1250 hrs.
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Wag Aero Cubby morphed to SuperCub with modified fuselage, longer wings, ailerons moved outboard, large flaps, and 160 HP O-320 for power.
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-Cub Builder

I don't think planes built by and bought from somebody else count

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Originally Posted by George Sychrovsky

I don't think planes built and bought from somebody else count

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Over half of homebuilts are owned by someone other than the original builder. Can't we be proud of our airplanes?

And what about folks who own Cessnas, Pipers, Luscombes, etc...should they just hang their heads in embarrassment, too?

Ron "proud owner for 23 years" Wanttaja

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Originally Posted by rwanttaja

Over half of homebuilts are owned by someone other than the original builder. Can't we be proud of our airplanes?

And what about folks who own Cessnas, Pipers, Luscombes, etc...should they just hang their heads in embarrassment, too?

Ron "proud owner for 23 years" Wanttaja

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Agreed!

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My Just Highlander on a nice little strip on the Kahiltna River. In the background on the right is Denali (20,320'), on the left Mt Foraker (19,400'). The strip is about 500' MSL.


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Photo taken on the same day looking up the Great Gorge of the Ruth Glacier in Denali National Park.

Finished this plane in three years...

Flying her since Oct 2005

Gotta Fly...

My Thorp T-18, same airport and mountain as in Ron's first Fly Baby photo, flying since 1970, I'm the seventh caretaker.
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My CH601XL-B at Sedona (SEZ) over Veterans Day weekend last month. Photos by Jack Fleetwood.

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