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PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2023 10:42 pm 
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For those who don’t check our Facebook page occasionally, we have miraculously obtained a replacement left tip fuel tank from Germany. This was a huge relief. Some things are on the Unobtainium list and tip tanks are close to the top. We did get some gear parts as previously noted and have located more. We have a source that can build trunnion support plates from scratch so that will help a bunch. We have all of the nacelle parts and gear doors. The problem is manpower. We have lost several people over the Covid shutdown. Some have moved away for new jobs or to be close to their kids/grandkids. We generally work on Saturdays, but sometimes, there are a few who work during the week. We need sheetmetal skills especially. The wing did pass the spar inspection so we are ready to move forward again. Come see us at VFM if interested and able to help. Thanks!


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Work has been slowed again with people going on vacations plus the hangar gets too hot here in Texas by about 1 pm to get much done. We did get some new downlocks for both sides. Left side trunnion support plates go out Saturday for patterns for new builds. Again, there is a ton of sheetmetal work needed and we are very short on people with those skills. If you are one of those who lives in our area and want to help, please see our Crew Chief JR on some Saturday morning. This is going to be a short fix or a long fix depending on manpower. As we approach the time for Oshkosh, we are disappointed that we do not have a flying machine to make the trip. The Hiller rotor blades may not make it back from overhaul until November so that’s out as well as Kay. That would be a heck of a trip though at 55 knots at 500 ft AGL. A stiff headwind could be real trouble as it only has about 1.5 hours of fuel. Planning must be impeccable to find airports with fuel within this range. The Flightaware.com track might look like we are zig zagging in case of enemy submarines. Well, maybe next time…. Meanwhile, don’t forget our Facebook page. We hit a record 66,787 views on a recent post. http://www.Facebook.com/a26specialkay


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I only just caught up here... it's great to see that you are making progress in getting Special Kay back into the air. Wish I could do anything to help out but there's an ocean in the way.

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Archer, thanks for your interest and support. Not much has changed since the last posting in June. We have gathered more gear parts that need to cleaned and tested. We had to send out more parts for sheet metal work that go in the nacelle. Everything is on hold as we will spend Saturday moving parts and toolboxes for the VFM 1940’s Hangar dance on Sat 14 Oct. Tickets can be obtained for the dance & or dinner on the Vintage Flying Museum website. It is always great fun and food. Don’t miss out if you can possibly make it. See you there!


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We had a nice write up in Vintage Aviation News recently. See link in previous post. Thx Thomas. We are about done with fabricating parts for the left nacelle on Kay. We expect to hear rivet guns starting about 9 March putting it all back together. Once the gear is installed, we will take her off the jacks and turn her around so we can remove the prop and engine. Back up on jacks, we will take the right main gear out for inspection and overhaul. Then do the nose gear just to be sure we have everything inspected and tighten the systems up. We have started work on removing belly skins and will get those replaced during the summer. In other news, the Hiller Helicopter we acquired last year will have its rotor blades back from overhaul next week. Hope to see it flying soon. Then the Fouga Magister that joined us in December has had the 600 hour inspection completed and now awaiting installation of new avionics and newly certified oxygen tanks. Fingers are crossed to have it flying again by the latter part of April. Kay is probably two years away of flying again. That will be a triumph for sure.
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