Too much free time...

Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:03 pm

kinda sorta but not really...here's a few from the last week or so...

for JDK I will keep the captions short

first real airport

contrails really enhance the airways...oh yeah the Wright Memorial

Kill Devil Hill through sticks

guess where?

um...let me see now???

hey look aaaaa.....MUSTANG

never ceases to amaze me...

ok...name the prop

OMG....its inside!!!

over and out

jim

Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:13 pm

I'm stumped on the ID of the "name the prop" once sombody tells me i'll probably go; "oh yeah"!
Jim I'm gonna guess Curtiss Electric?

Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:17 pm

Skyraider prop?

Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:18 pm

yeah me too... the guy giving the tour said it was a Bearcat prop...the hub certainly fits the bill.
few more...

got props?

pointy allison

blunt 38

just because...

jim

Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:24 pm

Some really great photos Jim. I want to know the airplane ID for that massive prop?
Thanks.

Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:34 pm

SBD. I don't want a pony.....

Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:39 pm

Thanks for posting the pic of the N3N. Tho I am sad to still see it in the same condition as the last time. We currently lost 3 this year. Two and incidents, one of them should be back in the air for 09. One write off and one retired from airworthy to a museum. But we should be getting 2 new ones and possibly a third in the air for a 1st time in 09. Its all baby steps.

Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:41 pm

Does anyone have info for his N3N??????? ANYTHING????? Looking for a Bureau number. Dont we have a WIX member on his staff???

Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:42 pm

b29flteng wrote:SBD. I don't want a pony.....

See I knew it, DUH :!:

, I guess they needed a place to hang that unidentified prop! No pony how bout a free guided tour of our shop, you don't live that far away! I'll even buy lunch if ya make it on time :wink:

Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:43 pm

Jim, isn't the Wright Brother's memorial just cool?

Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:43 pm

Say Jim, did they happen to let you inside the B-24? I'd like to see some recent interior shots of it.

Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:45 pm

I wanna say the N3N came from Uraguay...probably wrong though. He mentioned that it is an unmolested complete airframe. It would take two life times finish all that stuff.

jim

Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:56 pm

steve dickey wrote:I'm stumped on the ID of the "name the prop" once sombody tells me i'll probably go; "oh yeah"!
Jim I'm gonna guess Curtiss Electric?

It's a Curtiss Seagull Prop.
Most of the ex-MGM SBD wind machines had them installed.
That SBD is the Ex. NEAM airframe.
Jerry

Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:02 pm

Thanks Jerry for that info.

Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:12 pm

JimH wrote:I wanna say the N3N came from Uraguay...probably wrong though. He mentioned that it is an unmolested complete airframe. It would take two life times finish all that stuff.

jim

I knew it was from a forign country...................as for unmolested, yea its a two holer and was never a duster but that FWF is not a N3N. Now you want to talk UNMOLESTED..............The Fighter Factory N3N is a time capsule!!!!