ONE MORNING THE ENGINE was sitting on the floor, and the next it was mounted on the airplane. One afternoon, the propeller was sitting in a box, and a few hours later it was hung. "We aren't messing around here," Dave Stoots told me. A new 195-horsepower Continental Prime 10-370 engine, Hartzell Trailblazer propeller, Sportsman STOL wing cuffs, and other airframe modifications have been installed on your sweepstakes Cessna 170B at Barnstormer's Workshop at Peach State Aerodrome thanks to Stoots, who specializes in Cessna 170, 172, and 175 engine conversions. After several days of hanging around the airport, waiting for the word that the airplane was ready to fly, I received the "We're ready" call on a day I had not gone down to the airport. "You better get down here, we're flying it this morning to beat the weather," Stoots said. After I informed him I had a meeting I couldn't miss, he replied, "Well then you're going to miss the first flight." Needless to say I canceled that meeting.
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