Candid Cavanaugh Coverage

[bdk]

Thanks to Doug (FG1D Pilot) for letting me behind the chains this morning to take some photos! It was a pleasure to meet you Doug.

The quality of the restorations here should be apparent from the photos!

Recent Bell 47 resto:






Engineless Corsair:

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[bdk]

FM2:





Sopwith CAMEL:





T-6 under repair:



S2F:



Stearman:



F-105:



C-47:



HA-1112:




CASA:




F9F:



L-5:




OV-1:





Link:



MiG:

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[Obergrafeter]

Nice pictures. What kind of engine does the Bell have? Franklin or Lycoming?

[Silverplate]

Thanks for posting, nice pictures. Visted there myself a couple of years ago. Interesting place, loved the aviation art collection.

[Raven]

Great pictures - what a collection. Many thanks for sharing them, um, not-Brad.

Just a comment if I may - That 'Sopwith' would be better tagged as a Sopwith Camel - saying 'Sopwith' is about as specific as saying 'Grumman' or 'Boeing'. Looks to have a prototypical rotary engine, rather than the less accurate but more manageable radial.

Perhaps we should generate a third clique for revolving engines to come between the round n' pointly fanatics?

Can I be Brad? Do we take turns?

[bdk]

Ah Brad oh I mean Brandon how close is the Heinkle to flying.

Doesn't look any closer than it did a few years back...

Nice pictures. What kind of engine does the Bell have? Franklin or Lycoming?

Lycoming as I recall.

[FG1D Pilot]

Great shots, you took some from different angles than normal. Sorry i didn't have more time to spend with you. Steve and Dan were off site and i'm sure you would have enjoyed meeting them. It's always great to have WIXers come by.

[bdk]

Thanks Doug! I appreciate very much the time you did give me. It is always a toss up between wanting to chat and learn vs. worrying about distracting people from their job and being a general nuisance. Now that I know you I can come out to Dallas every 6 months or so and distract you in little chunks of your time rather than try to do it all at once!

Can't wait to see the P-47 come together and the Corsair get it's motor. All the workmanship looks top notch and the planes are clean enough to eat off of.

[spookyboss]

when is the Corsair getting it engine back?

[FG1D Pilot]

The engine? If you're married, you know what "maybe later" means.

[jaybird]

Jani King alert...I see dust on the Corsair's horizontal stab!

All joking aside, I had a nice experience there too. It is a worth a stop, for sure.

Doug, does the Eagle ever catch air under (or over!) its wings, or is it relegated to static display?

[SPang]

Hi,

Thanks for the pics.
very interesting pics for the Corsair without engine.

SPang

[needle]

Jaybird,

That is NOT dust.

That is a special coating that is applied by the maintenance department for use in one of the training programs that the Cavanaugh Flight Museum has implemented for Volunteers.

Now and then the newer Volunteers (and some of the older Volunteers requiring re-certification), are trained in the "art of cleaning". Since all the aircraft at the museum are in such great condition, and never get dirty, we have to use this "special coating" to be able to identify if the Volunteer is implementing the cleaning process properly. Without it we wouldn't be able to tell if they had actually done anything!

Seeing that maintenance has applied the "special coating" to the Corsair tells me that there must be a training session coming up very soon!


We also do training exercises related to the recycling of oils and chemicals, in order to stay in compliance with EPA safety regulations.

This usually involves flying the C47 around the pattern a couple of times, and then seeing how much oil each volunteer can get on a rag/shirt/hands/hair etc, before it drips off the aircraft onto the ramp. If we don't manage to catch all the oil in time, the "follow-on" training course "101 uses of kitty litter" is immediately implemented.
(One of the pictures taken by Brandon shows the C47 just after successfully completing its "oil egress test", and prior to the start of this last weekends "oil recycling" training session).



As for the Eagle. From memory, (and Doug can correct me if I am wrong) the last time we flew it was in 2003(?), when Kevin (Museum Assistant Director) flew it to Oshkosh.



Brandon, nice pictures.

Needle.

[bdk]

I wasn't picking on the C-47, honestly! I just thought the the dinosaur juice tracks looked kind of interesing.

[TimAPNY]

Jaybird,

the "follow-on" training course "101 uses of kitty litter" is immediately implemented.
Needle.

Or what was referred to in the Navy as "The Fallon Shuffle" After every launch we had to go out and clean up any spills on the flight line. The good ol' days

Tim