Rebuild Rescue Snatches Cheap Abandoned Airplanes Out From Under Us!!

Today we fly our new Cessna 210 turbo up north in the mountains to try to buy 2 cheap airplanes that haven't flown in 10+ years! Will they start up and fly for the first time? Turns ou tJason and Joe from Rebuild Rescue beat us to the deals. They allowed us to come along and try to get these old Piper Commaches running and flying once again!

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[rebuildrescue]

So much fun seeing you guys and having some airplane fun 👍🏼

[shanesdiy]

It was great to meet you guys and hang out for the afternoon, glad you had a spare airplane and made it up! Sorry I didn't think to offer the Comanches to you guys but hey we still have a 1949 Piper Clipper and a 1952 Piper Pacer if you guys decide to have a go with a tail dragger let me know! 😉

[moseskelly]

I can't express this enough, I get incredibly excited; when I come along each journey with ya'll Jeffrey & Christian!!! This is an amazing opportunity to potentially get to purchase those two Piper Cherokee's. I am most certainly looking forward to seeing the next steps.

[MrJohnBos]

Piper Comanche production stopped after the big flood in Lock Haven, PA in 1972. The tooling and the factory was damaged beyond repair. Comanches were also quite expensive to manufacture. Piper decided to close the Lock Haven factory. They moved to Vero Beach, FL. to build more economical airplanes. Neither the PA-24 nor the PA-30 Twin Comanche were never built again. IMO, they were the best piston engine airplanes Piper ever built.

[stephengoossen]

what a collab :) thanks for the entertainment guys

[wonderfulworldofWoody]

If you spent as much time looking at the ball as you do the cyl head temps you’d be in balance and flying faster for the same power setting and therefore have better cooling, etc 😂

[jonfelty]

Great adventure boys! Thanks for sharing the day! Stay safe out there!

[bobbymckenzie]

Im convinced your buddy in the bullet proof shirt is Norm McDonald's kid😂

[tailwindsofficial]

So glad to have another video from JR aviation to watch!

[ali-]

Great to see @Jason and the @REBUILDRESCUE crew on the video 📹.

[MarkSnop]

Keep wishing I was still flying. Watching your videos keeps me inspired to maybe get back into it again one day crossing my fingers.

[cabdouch]

Some notes:
First, you don't lean the mixture for altitude since you have a turbo giving you sea-level air pressure.
Secondly, you can leave the throttle all the way forward to take advantage of the Turbo, and just turn back the prop.
Thirdly, once you know what your mixture setting is for a given RPM, like you said 80pph, just lean fast to 80pph and tune appropriately. There is no need to slowly twist the knob and relearn where the sweet spot is every time.
Fourthly, your left main gear door needs attention as it is not seated properly. If you put the gear down while going fast, the spinning air off the prop will start damaging the left main gear door. While the book says you can put the gear down at 147kts, I always wait until under 120kts and try to even hold out for 100 to 105kts. If you let this go, it is possible the door will bind at some point and you will have a gear failure. Fix it now while it is cheap(ish)

[torque]

That 210 sounds so good. Even all the way from North Carolina

[Maniac]

It's humorous to me that find the Cirrus is underpowered at your density altitude, then are given a left turn at 2, 500. That's 3, 700 feet beneath the tarmac for me.

[kennoway]

Glad to see you getting more hands on experience you should be getting close for a check ride !! Keep up the good work

[davidduganne]

If you add back pressure as you begin to taxi, you will need a bit less "breakaway" thrust to get rolling. Your nosewheel steering will be lighter feeling, too. When you have airflow across the tail, the elevator starts working right away, takes a little weight off the nosewheel.

[mesprojects]

You guys seem to have a better eye for the realistic restorations. I gave up on rebuild rescue given how long they were taking / IMHO some of those planes should have been tossed to the parts bin.

[JosieTube]

I’ve owned a couple of Comanches. I remember hearing that piper stopped building the Comanches the year. They had the major floods in Lockhaven, Pennsylvania, and they lost most of their tooling.

[johngoogle]

Tetris must be a major challenge for these guys!

[i.r.wayright]

Correct, Comanche production ceased due to the 1972 tropical storm Agnes flood. 12 feet deep in the hangar I was working in at the time. Also, building it was more labor intensive than the Arrow. (At 18:32) The Right engine on the PA-39 is the LIO-320 the L being the designator for left turning, or counter rotating, the Left engine is the IO-320, which would be found on both sides of a PA-30, non Counter Rotating. Rotation directions are as viewed from the back of the engine looking forward. Clockwise on a standard IO-320 and Counter Clockwise on LIO-320.
Piper also experimented with an upgraded version of the PA-39 and built 3 designated PA-40 Arapaho
BTW, I knew the test pilot who bailed out of a PA-40 during a test flight. He got it into a flat spin and said (I moved everything that moved and nothing worked.) Later an engineer who was into RC flying built a replica of the PA-40 to test a theory. A pair of strakes were then added to the aft fuselage, on each side above the bend where the bottom of the aft fuselage starts. They stuck out about three inches. Another pilot I knew flew that and said it was a sweet handling plane. One more thing, if you look at the gap between the rudder and fin on a PA-39, there might be an aftermarket seal in there that helps in engine out situations.