Augur
 

Following a tip on here, I have just read 'Flight of Passage' by Rinker Buck. Lovely innocent stuff.
But he describes fitting a shiny new augur to the tail of his Cub. Can any English-speaking American tell me what he meant please? I'm not sure that we have them over here.
thanks
hnH

It's an ancient Roman religious official. Perhaps an arcane rudder trim device?

well, carrying a flappy ancient soothsayer on the tail would certainly affect the trim of a PA 11 but the bit about 'shiny' puzzles me too.

I did wonder if it was a tail skid shoe, but in the photos it appears to have the capitalist decadence of a tail wheel.

An augur ? It's a cast iron wood burning stove isn't it ? Ideal as a primitive APU, but you'd need to trim well forward with one fitted.....

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick ?

Shirley it's a type of picket; helps stop the plane getting airborne empty when it's windy!!

Could it be a misprint for "Auger" ? ... a tool resembling a large corkscrew .... and possibly something to do with the screwjack fitting that trims the stabilator on Cubs?

This doesn't augur well for the spelling bee :rolleyes:

Closest I got is Italian "Auguri!" , "Congratulations!"
Not sure there's much light down that road.

Every aircraft has to be fitted with an auger. How else can they "auger in", when things go horribly wrong? :suspect:

I agree with Slipslider,I have the book at home somewhere and when I read that sentence - I always assumed he was referring to the tailplane trim screwjack.

rgds LR