Sunday, January 15, 2012

Long overdue update

Well, I'm embarrassed that it has been so long since I last updated. I've done work to the Breezy and have finished a lot of the small tasks on the fuselage. I have also purchased a set of Piper Colt Wings which I tore down. I'll use the Ribs and hardware and purchase Super Cub length spars to remount the ribs and hardware. I've also had a few diversions. I've since set up my practice here in Jonesboro and have been extremely busy doing that. Also I purchased a Cessna 210 about a year and a half ago and that has taken some spare time from my projects.



Here we are enroute to Nashville, Tn to pick up Austin.


I've also built a CNC router with the help of Austin when he is home on break. Quite a steep learning curve but very cool to work with.




On a side note, the current owner of a Pitts I built in the '80's contacted me from England. I sold it in the early 90's and it was flown to Greenville Mississippi where it was dismantled and placed in a shipping container for the trip to England. I hadn't heard about until this gentleman contacted me and said he had purchased it and was getting it back to flight status. This was a pretty neat plane that I did a lot of modifications to. I built a set of wings with full span ailerons and with the slave struts moved to inside the I-struts (using a torque tube and bellcrank arrangement) for less drag. The ailerons themselves were all fiberglass and were a unique design at the time. They were very light and very powerful. All internal wire bracing was removed and the wing was covered with mahogany plywood. This kept a much more true airfoil shape than with a fabric covered wing. Anyway, it was a great flying little airplane. Lots more mods than what I've listed but that would take another blog! This is how it looks now...



I'll add a few pics of some of the Breezy clean up items as soon as I get a little time.



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  1. Beautiful! Did you have any idea it had "traveled" all the way across the Atlantic?

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