Airplane Pics

[ColoWyo]

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!

Sits a little lower than what we fly at work. I'd flare 20 times trying to get that on the ground.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Thanks for posting! Love all the bird porn!


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[NFATrustGuy]

Here's another… The big plane has been previously featured in this thread. Kinda gives an idea of the relative size.

[Alpha2]

He could lower that wing and you'd still be safe!

[HoneyBadger]

Here's another… The big plane has been previously featured in this thread. Kinda gives an idea of the relative size.

Ha! That's hilarious!

[Hoser]

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.

Most of the Coastie Hurks were E and H models. I know some of them had aux tanks in the fuselage that held even more gas.

After 10-12 hours at a sitting in them I am glad we are out of gas and have to stop. The noise and beating of the props just kills you.

Hard to believe they have been making them since 1956. And they are still rolling off the lines in Marietta Georgia.

[sniper7]

Here's another… The big plane has been previously featured in this thread. Kinda gives an idea of the relative size.

wow! even the tire on the tail is bigger than the mains!

[fly boy]

[Hoser]

Spent today on the Drop Zone breaking in some new AMLOs and a couple friends. It is always funner to be flying than on the ground, but I did get some good videos of us playing on the dirt runway.

[FLIPCO]

just noticed this thread.......This is my bro inlaw's plane that he restored. It's not completely finished but I know he is looking to sell it after putting a couple of years work on it....I think it's pretty cool. It's at Jefco airport. Some might have seen it on display last summer for airshow there.