Bob Turner - 56 years with the same Cub

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Bob Turner

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They even gave me an award for fifty years! Hobbies include Cubs, any kind of taildragger, O Scale Model Trains, Constitutional Law, and 1964 Mustang Convertibles. I own the same Cub I soloed in, and in the intervening years have owned two Stinsons, a Mooney, a piece of another J-3, and currently a Super Decathlon. I am a Decathlon neophyte, and ask a lot of questions. I do eight slow rolls a week, and on days when I am feeling good I reverse course with an Immelman turn.

One of my remaining goals in life is three touch and goes every single day from now until I croak.

I just filled the last real box - I taught Con Law last fall! I came late to the study of law, having been in engineering most of my non-flying life. I managed to collect degrees in aerospace engineering, math, applied physics, and law - and five jet type ratings! Best of all, probably, I grew up around age forty, and hooked up with a New York Greek with the body of a Greek Goddess, and she takes care of me full time and buys me Decathlons and hangars.

I suppose I shall try some photos. I too wish great success to Bart's adventure, and really, really need a source for Decathlon information.
 
Man, I am in awe of all your accomplishments... Especially finding your NY Greek. Though mine's not Greek (she's an El Paso, TX native), she absolutely fulfills my life, and I cannot imagine any of this without her. Sounds like you feel pretty much the same!

But the one outstanding (in both meanings of the word) goal that I truly hope you will be able to fulfill would be the 3 touch-and-goes every day... Though I think you should add 3 full-stoppers as well, and go for a Guinness World Record for the longest span of "maximum currency in a tail-dragger" – assuming that's a "thing." LOL
 
Here's a question for you Bob, you see people talking about which airplane to buy, Citabria or Decathlon and for me I couldn't see a Decathlon meeting the low and slow requirement. I was originally looking for a Cub after all. Having the Cub and the Decathlon, do you ever take the Decathlon on what would normally be a Cub like flight and just pull it back, stay low, and enjoy the sights or doesn't it like that?

Thanks!
 
It is just a faster Cub. Not quite as much fun in the pattern, but covers the ground twice as fast, and has the power to get out of downdrafts in the high desert. The Greek appreciates the room in the back seat. And I can stay instrument current, since it has a suite of vacuum gyros, all of which remain inert unless I am practicing approaches. Gyros do not like slow rolls.

One of the most popular airplanes in the local flying club is a fairly new 160 GCAA. It seems to get more customers than the similarly powered Super Cub. I think it is the "newness", but it is well-liked. There is nothing wrong with a good Champ.

To directly answer your question - I fly the Dec at the same altitudes as the Cub, unless I am on a very long x-c. Then I go to Mooney altitudes, where I can get an honest 120 knots. Mooney is an honest 160 on the same fuel . . .
 
That was me pretending to be a hippie. Must have been winter in soCal. Next we have my last student who passed her PP the first time. She did it all in a Super Cub with big tires. To her right is my favorite ground school instructor, who is also a Decathlon owner and CFI.pilot Kim 014.webp
 
Bump. Don't know where I posted my instrument panel. Will re-post here. In a minute . . .
 
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