Texas STOL Roundup

[Jaywalker]

Texas STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) (Aircraft) Roundup in Hondo, Texas, 29 Sept - 1 Oct 2017: http://www.texasstolroundup.org/

Seeing GVM's use of STOL in Alaska has my much-lately-unused private pilot (Single Engine Land) license feeling need for some exercise. Past attendees aircraft included Cub, Maule, Cessna 180, Dehavilland, Husky and a lot more.

My wife and I will attend, but I'm carefully leaving my checkbook at home.

[rayrevolver]

Clay Lacy used to goof off with his Turbo Porter when I worked the line.

He took off from short taxiways, literally landed on the numbers and taxied off at alpha.

For the airshows he would do a routine and then dead stick home.

STOL is cool. Nothing like seeing those bush planes land inside a few feet.

[GJM]

Is STOL in Texas the equivalent of barbecue in Alaska? :)

[GJM]

Kidding aside, for those that go, see if there is a guy in a Husky competing. There are some Texas folks that own a lodge SW of us, and the young man has a Husky. We heard him trying to get through Lake Clark Pass on a crappy weather day recently, probably on the way home to Texas.

[Jaywalker]

Will do. How hard can it be to find a Cub-lookalike at a STOL gathering? :)

The Carbon Cubs spec out to both takeoff and landing in 60 feet, lightly loaded. Something to behold.

[GJM]

Will do. How hard can it be to find a Cub-lookalike at a STOL gathering? :)

The Carbon Cubs spec out to both takeoff and landing in 60 feet, lightly loaded. Something to behold.

60 feet with no wind is optimistic, but they perform real well!

[Jaywalker]

Kidding aside, for those that go, see if there is a guy in a Husky competing. There are some Texas folks that own a lodge SW of us, and the young man has a Husky. We heard him trying to get through Lake Clark Pass on a crappy weather day recently, probably on the way home to Texas.
Found the group, I think, though the actual pilot, D. H., was flying while we were there, but he's the pilot who brought the Husky though the Clark Lake Pass in weather. They were from Rainbow Lodge on the Kvitchak River, they said about 350 miles SW from Anchorage.

At the meet there were about 40 aircraft including a few Cessnas, but most were close-coupled, high-winged aircraft. Through keen observation I was able to discern which were the Husky aircraft - they had husky sled dog pictures on their vertical stabilizers.

[TC215]

Here’s the winner from the Valdez contest earlier this year:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7-BuNiP6Y&app=desktop

[Jaywalker]

Here’s the winner from the Valdez contest earlier this year:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7-BuNiP6Y&app=desktop

Even with a stripped fuselage that's amazing.

[Stephanie B]

Here’s the winner from the Valdez contest earlier this year:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7-BuNiP6Y&app=desktop

Wow. I'll bet that that airplane doesn't weigh a pound more than absolutely necessary.