Airplane Pics

[Alpha2]

And then, one from quite a bit later...

[Alpha2]

One more just for laughs...

[helopitts]

And then, one from quite a bit later...

is that at lxv?

[HoneyBadger]

And then, one from quite a bit later...

Nice RV! Is that yours?

[flogger]

That is a sweet looking aircraft, it has fun written all over it.

[Alpha2]

It was mine, I built it and flew it for about 7 years, sold to a guy with a home strip in Calhan. That flight was up to Leadville with NFATrustGuy. He had a primo RV3 at the time. He's got a snazzy Mini-Mustang now and an RV8 under construction, sort of. Make him put pics up of the Mustang! He also drives a French Wench Airbus, but you all know what those look like!

Come to think of it, NFATrustGuy helped me seal the fuel tanks on the RV. That was a job.

[NFATrustGuy]

I remember helping seal Alpha2's wing tanks. In fact, I think I'm still digging pro seal out from under my fingernails! That had to be more than 15 years ago!

I'm no longer building an RV-8. I sold the wing kit, unbuilt, and still have a tail kit that I should probably sell at some point. It's built so it's a little more cumbersome to ship. I was going to build an RV-3 and even purchased 3 out of the 4 kits about 19 months ago. I've since decided not to and so I've got $10K worth of unopened crates sitting out at the airport. Need to get that sold one of these days...

My Midget Mustang has been out of service for a long time. I found cracks in the landing gear. I have all the necessary parts to fix it, I just haven't taken time to get 'er done. Here's a pic of me in my Midget Mustang shortly after it first flew--after my 6 year restoration project!

[HoneyBadger]

I remember helping seal Alpha2's wing tanks. In fact, I think I'm still digging pro seal out from under my fingernails! That had to be more than 15 years ago!

I'm no longer building an RV-8. I sold the wing kit, unbuilt, and still have a tail kit that I should probably sell at some point. It's built so it's a little more cumbersome to ship. I was going to build an RV-3 and even purchased 3 out of the 4 kits about 19 months ago. I've since decided not to and so I've got $10K worth of unopened crates sitting out at the airport. Need to get that sold one of these days...

My Midget Mustang has been out of service for a long time. I found cracks in the landing gear. I have all the necessary parts to fix it, I just haven't taken time to get 'er done. Here's a pic of me in my Midget Mustang shortly after it first flew--after my 6 year restoration project!

WOW! That this IS mini!!

Alpha, did you see the pictures I posted a few pages back of the RV-7a that I helped my dad build? EDIT: Here's a link:https://www.ar-15.co/threads/27743-A...l=1#post984849

[Alpha2]

Yep, saw the pics, that's what convinced me to show my pics of the -4. Don't let NFATrust guy fool, he'd makes the FrenchWench look small! I still owe him a "wing pro-sealing", but he keeps selling the wing kits.
Seriously, you should see that Mini-Mustang...That plane is not at all what he originally started with. He's a stickler for detail. Fiberglas work and panel are primo.

[Alpha2]

Hey, Hoser, regarding those pics of your Hurks, (which we called Balloons or Wind-Wagons in the Coast Guard and my brother in the Marines called herky-pigs) remind me that not long after I took the pics previously posted in this thread, our replacement Hurks had tanks between 1&2 and 3&4 like yours, I think they were "F" models. Been a REALLY long time I could be wrong. Either that or we had E or F's, and got "H" models, heck, it was the mid '70's! They didn't even whiz-quiz back then, I'm lucky I remember it was the Coast Guard.

Imagine what those aux tanks did for "time on station" on our SAR missions over the Pacific.