Identify the warbird mechanic....
Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:48 pm
Standing behind the tool box, well known, rarely photographed.....
Sun Oct 29, 2006 4:20 am
Soooooo, who is he? : ) : )
Saludos,
Tulio
Saludos,
Tulio
Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:20 am
my guess- Gary. The headless one on the ladder would be Nelson. Just a guess
Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:58 am
I can't be positive who it is, but that sure is one handsome little devil! 
Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:16 am
FG1D Pilot wrote:my guess- Gary. The headless one on the ladder would be Nelson. Just a guess
And your Corsair.......
Lynn
Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:56 am
I am jealous garry...................all I get to work on is turbine crap for 40 hrs a week!
Where did I go wrong?
Where did I go wrong?
Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:59 am
N3Njeff wrote:I am jealous garry...................all I get to work on is turbine crap for 40 hrs a week!
Where did I go wrong?
Well, that's easy...........you're working on the wrong kind of round engine.
Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:05 am
retroaviation wrote:N3Njeff wrote:I am jealous garry...................all I get to work on is turbine crap for 40 hrs a week!
Where did I go wrong?
Well, that's easy...........you're working on the wrong kind of round engine.
You need to put a bunk house on the hanger Gary, I'm sure you would have all the WIX help you could handle.
Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:34 am
You need to put a bunk house on the hanger Gary, I'm sure you would have all the WIX help you could handle.
Actually that is not a bad Idea! How about a one or two week "Warbird Camp" where you get to help work on aircraft for a donation and do lots of hanger flying
Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:18 pm
Sounds just like a Tom Sawyer move to me ! You give money and I'll LET you do some work !
You give money and I'll LET you do some work !
Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:27 pm
There's a well known Warbird restorer that did that very thing in the past. When I was working at Nelson's shop and we were finishing up Red Bull's B-25, a tourist came up to me and said he just finished working on a B-25 himself. He said he paid "that guy in Florida" $2,500 to go to his week long "Warbird school." I asked him what he got to work on and he said he got to strip the paint off of cowling parts the whole week........and he loved every minute of it.
I've just recently tossed around this very idea to the "important people" in our Squadron, but I then got to thinking that if I'm struggling to get people to come here as volunteers, then how would I be able to get them to come in as "customers?"
I'd just love for any of y'all to come out to help. Let's face it, any flying museum needs help with these airplanes. And I'm not all about the "competition" between different organizations. I'd love to see some of the Collings Foundation, Doc, Lonestar, Cavenaugh, or any other museum folks come out and help. And, if welcomed to do so, I'd be happy to someday see that our folks tried to lend a hand to them. Naturally, any of the WIX bunch could come down and play too. This really is a neat place to get to learn about the inner workings of these old airplanes.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's really all about keeping these old airplanes flying so that we can continue to teach the world their place in our history and to honor those who built, flew, and maintained them.
Gary
I've just recently tossed around this very idea to the "important people" in our Squadron, but I then got to thinking that if I'm struggling to get people to come here as volunteers, then how would I be able to get them to come in as "customers?"
I'd just love for any of y'all to come out to help. Let's face it, any flying museum needs help with these airplanes. And I'm not all about the "competition" between different organizations. I'd love to see some of the Collings Foundation, Doc, Lonestar, Cavenaugh, or any other museum folks come out and help. And, if welcomed to do so, I'd be happy to someday see that our folks tried to lend a hand to them. Naturally, any of the WIX bunch could come down and play too. This really is a neat place to get to learn about the inner workings of these old airplanes.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's really all about keeping these old airplanes flying so that we can continue to teach the world their place in our history and to honor those who built, flew, and maintained them.
Gary
Work
Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:39 pm
EAA has a good program where you go to the museum workshop about 3 or 4 days and learn various homebuilder skills, with hands on practice.It's not warbirds, but it's good and they make it fun, except Osh in winter is real cold and gloomy. It's not a good idea for jet pilots and yankees to go to Breckenridge. They don't appreciate the B-B-Q or grits, and they whine about little things like a few rattlers in the hanger. Riley used to have one in Kisssismee; Smithsonian has one that tours their restoration shops and is eye opening, but not hands on.
Maypearl
Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:50 pm
Lynn, I'm sure nuff from Texas, and I' ve been to a lot of the big towns, like Friendswood, Alvin, Laporte, and I've heard of Minnie Pearl and Pearland, but I ain't never heard of no Maypearl. I suspect it is kind of like that place 90 miles from Austin where a top football prospect was being lured astray to, until his friends set hime straight by telling him that the mall there only had one story! Close call in Lubbock last night!
Re: Maypearl
Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:55 am
Bill Greenwood wrote:Lynn, I'm sure nuff from Texas, [snip]but I ain't never heard of no Maypearl.
Aww, Bill. And here I thought maybe we had more in common than I thought. Maypearl isn't that far from my folks' farm in Italy...
Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:57 pm
retroaviation wrote:I've just recently tossed around this very idea to the "important people" in our Squadron, but I then got to thinking that if I'm struggling to get people to come here as volunteers, then how would I be able to get them to come in as "customers?"
Y'know, there is some merit to the idea. If you try to give something away, most people won't want it because they think it is worthless. If you charge them big money for it, then you know it must be good!