More Curtis Pusher pics

[C5Engineer 1170]

While I was home last week I went up for the EAA monthly pancake breakfast in Lewiston Idaho which is where Dean lives and where the pusher is located. This was the first time I'd seen it in person since it was finished. Its such a cool machine! They put an 0200 on it with a prop that Dean created. It's making 450lbs of thrust they said. Anyways here are the pics.

The man

Just one example of the work. Even the pulleys were machined in Deans shop

Ready to go flyin!

Only instruments...A hull wind indicator speedo and an inclinometer

Some of the bracing.

[SuberAvid 617]

Great pics Joey, thanks for sharing them. It is pretty neat that you have a connection to the Avid/KF founder. While I was in Hood River, OR I visited an Air and Auto Museum the buit a few years ago. It is a great museum, well worth the 12 bucks with around 75 planes and more autos. They have a 1912 Curtiss pisher replica that was built in 1947. In 1995 the museum director flew it off the roof of the Multnoma Motel in Portland to reinact the 1912 flight of the original off of the same motel. They have a video of the reinactment. He looks pretty nervous and the plywood runway was none too long!