Re: Day dreaming about airplanes.
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:47 pm
Okay, this one’s a little more money but it’s also a little more real:
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-other/broc ... 1559265131
You could show up with a handheld radio and an iPad with Foreflight loaded up and head west on the adventure of a lifetime. Once past Ontario’s rocks and trees dip it down to 500agl to stay out of the headwinds and cruise on home. Stop in YQT of course, I’ll make tacos or something.
The Christavia I is more or less the answer to “can I make a Champ in my garage?” IIRC they were originally designed for remote missionary work so they must be rugged. It looks roomy and with the fuselage’s structural tubes pushed all the way out to the corners it’s going to be as strong as it can be for the weight. This is what they did with the Carbon Cub to make it objectively better than a PA-18 and I’ve kind of harboured this theory that a Christavia could become a poor man’s Carbon Cub for a tiny fraction of the price. Just picture it with big, fat tires and a 150-ish horsepower engine bought from a southern US salvager after a hangar collapse in hurricane season...
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-other/broc ... 1559265131
You could show up with a handheld radio and an iPad with Foreflight loaded up and head west on the adventure of a lifetime. Once past Ontario’s rocks and trees dip it down to 500agl to stay out of the headwinds and cruise on home. Stop in YQT of course, I’ll make tacos or something.
The Christavia I is more or less the answer to “can I make a Champ in my garage?” IIRC they were originally designed for remote missionary work so they must be rugged. It looks roomy and with the fuselage’s structural tubes pushed all the way out to the corners it’s going to be as strong as it can be for the weight. This is what they did with the Carbon Cub to make it objectively better than a PA-18 and I’ve kind of harboured this theory that a Christavia could become a poor man’s Carbon Cub for a tiny fraction of the price. Just picture it with big, fat tires and a 150-ish horsepower engine bought from a southern US salvager after a hangar collapse in hurricane season...