Tow Winch

Here you can see we’ve purchased a radio controlled winch from Harbor Freight. It’s a 3 ton unit that we hook to the tow bar. The cable is just long enough to grab the nose wheel with the tow bar attached. Once connected, it makes short (OK, not long) work of pulling the plane in […]

Cessna Style Tow Bar Rigging

Here you can see we’ve rigged up a standard Cessna Style tow bar to use on our airplane. Right now we’re using the standard stand-offs that we rigged up for the nose pant, but I can see we’re bending these already, so we’re going to make some solid AL 3/4″ versions to use. Once we’re […]