Steve's Aviation Web Page

Here's a picture of my dad in a Chevy truck magazine ad from the late 1960's while he worked for Medlock Dusters in Davis. He was helping to load a crop duster in a field when some advertising men drove up in a brand new Chevy truck and asked him if he'd like to be in an ad. I think they paid him a hundred bucks too, and supplied the hat. Click here for larger image.

This is the Piper Cub that I took my single-engine commercial rating flight test in, around 1990. It was the easiest check ride I'd ever had, the airplane was so simple. It didn't have a flight manual, which confounded the examiner. He had to take my word on a lot of things, like the V-speeds :-)

One of our club's Cessna 152 training airplanes. These rent for about $52 per hour and are fun to fly if you're not in a hurry to get anywhere. The are the planes generally used for training. We have four of these. Click for larger image

The Cessna 152's luxurious interior. Click for larger image

The Cessna 152 instrument panel is pretty simple. Click for larger image

One of the club's two Cessna 172's. Click for larger image.

Cessna 172 instrument panel. Click for larger image.

Here's my first airplane, a 1968 Cessna 150, after landing in Palm Springs in a 20 knot direct crosswind. I always wondered how much crosswind a 150 could handle. Now I know :-)

This is the Piper J3 I owned for a few years. It was really fun but I ended up selling it when I bought a Mooney M10, seen in the hangar. Looking back on it, I wish I had kept the J3. I finally sold the Mooney it to a guy in Japan who loves it. Here is his website describing the whole adventure. Here's his other page dedicated to the airplane, and flying in Japan.

Here's the J3 engine after I rebuilt it with the help of an A&P-IA. I was really proud of this thing, I was never more confident in any engine than this one after I overhauled it. As you can see, there is no starter, no battery, just an engine. It sure was cheap to maintain. Click for larger image.

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