Nathans a warbird owner

[Tulio]

Thank you, Leon.

When I see the photos I took at your place, I can still feel the cold!!! Sad to hear that the PT- stuff is gone. I am sure they went to someone who will put them to good use.

Take care, Leon.


Tulio

[Fouga23]

Nathan, YOU ROCK!!!

[Hemiman]

Congrats Nathan! If you locate anything in Okieland, drop me a line and I'll try to help out!

Bill

[SIDSIKO]

HUP-2 130022 (in the photos) served with HU-2 from 23 Aug 1958 to 1 Sep 1960. It then went to O&R Norfolk, before entering storage at Litchfield Park, AZ 8 Nov 1960.

[marine air]

There are talkers and there are "doers" .you've stepped forward into the "Doers" category. Awesome choice!

[Chris Brame]

Hi Nathan! Here's something from the Cold War to tempt you:
http://pacaeropress.websitetoolbox.com/ ... 1286042613

[Nathan]

Wished I lived closer to CA! Wow, that's an amazing find!

[Nathan]

Hi Nathan! Here's something from the Cold War to tempt you:
http://pacaeropress.websitetoolbox.com/ ... 1286042613

Im trying to work something out. Don't tell the wife.

[JohnB]

Anyone know what became of the remains of the late Joe Pike's HUP?

I did see a photo of it following his fatal crash and the fuselage was fairly (and surprisingly) intact.

I believe Pike's sons are in the aviation world....

[Nathan]

I think they are using parts to rebuild another one.

[Michel Lemieux]

Congrads Nathan!!!!!!!

Just keep your original goal in mind...always.

The question is how large is your backyard!!!

Enjoy the ride.

Sincerely

Michel

[Forgotten Field]

Nathan,
Congratulations. I would love to play with the vintage rotor wings but have too much else to do and would never get one done. I have a few suggestions.

1. Get a copy of the original inspection, structural repair (SRM), and erection and maintenance (E&M) manuals for the aircraft. I recommend hard copies. Read them.

2. Find a local mobile A&P with an IA and ask him/her to help supervise your work on these. Log all your time working, and have that person view it. This will count towards an A&P license.

3. Get a copy of AC-43.13-1B, Acceptable Methods, Techniques, and Practices - Aircraft Inspection and Repair. It is available on line if you can't afford to purchase one, but I recommend a hard copy. When you are working on a section of the aircraft, read the appropriate section in this document. It will tell you what is currently acceptable for standards to repair this aircraft. You may find that this conflicts with some of the things you will find are acceptable in the original SRM and E&M manuals. Talk to the IA about it, and talk to a lot of IA's about this. It is important to learn this when navigating airworthy aircraft maintenance.

4. When you do anything on the aircraft, take digital photos of what you did and index it to your work log. Try to do it right, in accordance with the regs.

5. If at all possible, go for building an airworthy aircraft. Static is nice, but if you are capable of building this into a flyer, that goes a long way to proving you are worth something to the restorers out there. The jobs start above what you are making now.

Good luck, and I am officially jealous- Forgotten Field.

[DH82EH]

Forgotten Field,
Those are some fabulous ideas!
Photos and documentation, of airworthy quality work, are going to help make the pieces of this puzzle worth way more than the sum of the parts.
Nathan, document everything.
Don't post everything!
You will learn so much and will be an expert on these crazy egg beater contraptions
You said you don't have a lot of $ and that's O.K.
To quote the much missed Gary Austin, I'm just a dumb airplane mechanic. I never thought I'd own my own warbird.
Dream man. It happens.

Andy