How to keep your aircraft clean

Mudge · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:46 pm

OK...What's the bad part?

Mudge teh immaculate :roll:

Tinker51 · **Joined:** Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:08 am **Posts:** 164

The soak cycle (seen here) is not what is bad.
Unless you select delicate on the hangar before you leave it is the wash and spin cycles that are really hard on airplanes.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:19 pm

Hey that's cool saw that once of the boat when some nit whit activated the AFFF in the hanger bay.

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:30 pm

That is funny. That happened here at KAGC not that long ago.

JDK · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:33 pm

Tinker51 wrote:

The soak cycle (seen here) is not what is bad.
Unless you select delicate on the hangar before you leave it is the wash and spin cycles that are really hard on airplanes.

Hope there's no lill' warbirds under that lot...

krlang · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:19 pm

Thats not funny!

My toolbox is sitting in the corner of that hangar right now!

The red stripe on the hangar door is at 12'. This happened about a month after the hangar opened, a leak in the heating system ran down the wall into the fire system control box and shorted it while the system was locked out for a bit of electrical work. It could have been alot worse but our speedy electrician figured out that the override buttons were the only thing locked out when it activated and he ran out back to shut the valves down. There was also a Citation in there that morning along with the two Hawkers.

Its the hangar on the left.

Ryan, were you still there when that happened?

I almost set it off on Labor Day weekend, soldering a pin onto a power cable for a mule.

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:26 pm

did they add fabric softener to the rinse cycle & then dryer sheets ?? :wink:

i'm showing my age but......looks like an old brady bunch episode where bobby floods the laundry room with soap bubbles trying to wash his dirty new suit!!

Elroy13 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:29 pm

This is reason why Thunderbird is always so clean! :wink:

krlang · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:33 pm

The hangar has had a whole bunch of stories since it was started.
They raised all of those beams in a day, but didnt have time to put all of the stringers in place so the only tied them together with a few on each. The wind blew pretty hard that night and bent all of those large steel beams closer together. It took a day or two of winching them back into place to fit all the other parts in.

krlang · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:36 pm

Elroy13 wrote:

This is reason why Thunderbird is always so clean! :wink:

You had me for a minute there!

Elroy13 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:44 pm

krlang wrote:

Elroy13 wrote:

This is reason why Thunderbird is always so clean! :wink:

You had me for a minute there!

Ok,

So maybe its due to countless volunteer hours! :wink:

Canso42 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:34 pm

Elroy,
Wasn't that Kim's camera phone photo from fall a year ago when airboss wanted the Bird washed down?

Canso42

Elroy13 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:39 am

Canso42 wrote:

Elroy,
Wasn't that Kim's camera phone photo from fall a year ago when airboss wanted the Bird washed down?

Canso42

You've seen that pic before. It went out over the group. :wink:

chico · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:37 am

tom d. friedman wrote:

did they add fabric softener to the rinse cycle & then dryer sheets ?? :wink:

i'm showing my age but......looks like an old brady bunch episode where bobby floods the laundry room with soap bubbles trying to wash his dirty new suit!!

I'm just glad they made sure there wasn't a red sock stuck in the corner of the hangar.....no one wants to see a pink Citation....

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