[Tim Hancock]

All went well, no leaks and it fired after just a couple revolutions! It is gone! Unfortunately, it was replaced by a club 172 partially owned by one of the T34's owners. I need to just start saying no.

The RC hanging from the ceiling is a 33% scale Giles. While I have quite a collection of flying RC planes, that particular one is stripped of it's 4 cylinder DA 15 hp engine and the 9 high torque servoes and twin receivers. A friend of mine traded it to me for some work I did on his Navion. I doubt that I will ever take the time (or blow the cash for the $2500 worth of engine and servoes) to get it flying again, but it sure looks pretty cool as a hangar decoration now.

The 520 does sound loud as it just has straight 6 into 2 exhaust stacks dumping into those big tubes. I don't believe the conversion to the 520 is too difficult allthough the sheet metal up front appears to have required some mods. I know it is impossible to remove the cylinders without removing the engine though, which is not the case with most small airplanes. It has always had this engine since I started working on this plane three years ago.

I am not sure about how the old military markings are treated, but many old warbirds which are now certified as civilian owned, have military markings, so it is pretty common.