How did you spend Thanksgiving?

Colonel · Mon Oct 12, 2015 12:09 pm

Clockwise (can't fit into one picture):

Harvard (hotrod)
PT-19 (original Fairchild, not licence-built Cornell)
L39
L39
DR-109
C421B
996 (Techart)
Glasair III
Stearman (hotrod)
L29 (stock)
L29 (hotrod)
PT-22 Ryan
S-2B
T-bone (normally aspirated)

14 reasons for the haters to hate

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Speaking of haters, too bad Schteevie
wasn't here to tell us how to fly everything.

Chuck Ellsworth · Mon Oct 12, 2015 5:56 pm

Hey Colonel....where is the Beech 18?

Iflyforpie, great.

When you get it finished you can start to make money with it as it will be the ideal toy to train in.

And if you want I will get a set of floats for it.

Colonel · Mon Oct 12, 2015 8:48 pm

where is the Beech 18?

Sold last year to a museum in Virginia (?)
who made an offer which could not be
refused!

It was for the best - it was stuck at the
back of the hangar and didn't fly enough.

To get it out, we had to pull everything else
in the hangar out, which didn't happen
enough. We have to shut down at least
half of the taxiway when we do that, which
annoys the other hangar owners.

It will be missed!

Forgot to mention:

PA-11
7GCBC

(in maintenance hangar this weekend)

Chuck Ellsworth · Mon Oct 12, 2015 8:55 pm

The Beech 18 is a nice airplane for sure,but it is not really a collectors item that justifies its upkeep.

You need a Sea Bee, the best little amphibious toy out there.

Chuck Ellsworth · Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:28 am

Well for me Huron the Sea Bee is like my first piece of tail, it is something one never forgets.

I got my first ride in an airplane on Lake Nipigon in 1947 in a Sea Bee.

Then after I got my PPL and and float rating 1953 and 1954 I flew with a guy in his Sea Bee for four summers out of Toronto Island mostly in the Muskoka district.

The Sea Bee is built like a tank and has lots of room in it and is a wonderful handling machine on the water.

It may look ugly on land but it is quite pretty on the water.

There you go, that is why I like the Sea Bee. :) :) :)