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Of course who else holds the entire leading edges on with a piano wire but Lockheed.


The entire Beech Bonanza/T-34 line, Baron, Duke, Queen Air, and King Air series airplanes, including all military variants.

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The truth of the matter is that Rich allready has restored a P-38 (or at least he was very instrumental). When we worked at Pacific Fighters together he would tell me a lot about that airplane. I think we are better of sticking to North American products (from what I have heard). Besides Rich has an airplane he needs to build and he has a bad habit of actually looking at the pieces he is working on and finding problems. Dammit Rich what did you find broken today!

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Ed came back from press flights in P-51 Double Trouble Too at about 6 pm.
Tailwheel tire had splits in the sidewall- 2 were close to 3" and 1 was 1" long about 3/4" from edge of rim.
Tire has maybe 6-7 flights since new.
10 ply Aero Classic and it was inflated properly.
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I don't know if it would make a difference or not, but you can get a 14 ply version of that tire from Desser (I have one on my SNJ).

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I don't know if it would make a difference or not, but you can get a 14 ply version of that tire from Desser (I have one on my SNJ).

Bela P. Havasreti

A run of the 14 plys which were made in Vietnam have had issues. John Muszala and the Redtail P-51 have had blowouts on them while towing.

The aircraft isn't ours so I was just helping them out.

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I didn't know that (about the Vietnam-made ones with problems), thanks for the heads-up! Guess the thing to do (until Desser gets things sorted out) is keep an ear to the ground for good / NOS (old) nylon tires...

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Speaking of jigs/fixtures, here's one I made for T-6 horizontal stab rebuilds. I was fortunate in that I had good/straight (although internally corroded) horizontal stab examples to build the jig off of. The plan is to use my good/straight (internally corroded) wing center section to build a jig for that, and I have a straight (internally corroded) pair of outer wing panels to use to build wing jigs as well. Even with the original (microfilmed) engineering drawings, this would be orders of magnitude more difficult to do without good/straight parts to build the tooling off of....

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Bela, that looks great, but what about the other side :twisted: :lol:

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51fixer wrote:
snj-5 wrote:
I don't know if it would make a difference or not, but you can get a 14 ply version of that tire from Desser (I have one on my SNJ).

Bela P. Havasreti

A run of the 14 plys which were made in Vietnam have had issues. John Muszala and the Redtail P-51 have had blowouts on them while towing.

The aircraft isn't ours so I was just helping them out.

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the pic says 10 Ply...am I confused or something?

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Bela, that looks great, but what about the other side :twisted: :lol:

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The other side is already done! (that's the 2nd horizontal stab sitting in the jig in the picture). I actually used the best parts of 4 horizontal stab halves (with new stringers and some new parts from Lance thrown in) to make two good ones.

You no doubt already know this, but for those who don't, the T-6 uses symetrical horizontal halves (you bolt two identical halves together to make a whole horizontal stab, so you can use the same jig for both halves).

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beautiful! :)


Thanks! I just wish I could make progress as quickly as Chuck does.... :D
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I don't know if it would make a difference or not, but you can get a 14 ply version of that tire from Desser (I have one on my SNJ).

Bela P. Havasreti

A run of the 14 plys which were made in Vietnam have had issues. John Muszala and the Redtail P-51 have had blowouts on them while towing.

The aircraft isn't ours so I was just helping them out.

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the pic says 10 Ply...am I confused or something?

Photo is of a 10 ply with issues.
There has also been issues with 14 ply tires Desser sold made in Vietnam.
A thread was on WIX about this right after Oshkosh.
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