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Standing behind the tool box, well known, rarely photographed.....

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Brad

Soooooo, who is he? : ) : )


Saludos,


Tulio

my guess- Gary. The headless one on the ladder would be Nelson. Just a guess

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Blue Skies,
Doug

www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com

I can't be positive who it is, but that sure is one handsome little devil!

And your Corsair.......

Lynn

I am jealous garry...................all I get to work on is turbine crap for 40 hrs a week!


Where did I go wrong?

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Long Live the N3N-3 "The Last US Military Bi-Plane" 1940-1959
Badmouthing Stearmans on WIX since 2005

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.

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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

Sounds just like a Tom Sawyer move to me ! You give money and I'll LET you do some work !

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

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.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

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!

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

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...

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!