All Things Aviation Related

[bugstrider]

Just a friendly reminder for those that do not know, the 2023 Reno Air Races will be the closing act for Reno. This year is the last race event at Reno and it is unknown what will happen in the future. 60
Years of racing, kaput.

Tickets are still available and hope to see you guys there.


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[Heel n Toe]

https://www.jetsprops.com/prototype/the-xc-99-worlds-largest-piston-engine-aircraft.html

[bugstrider]

^^^^^ wow! cool aviation historical fun fact. Thanks for posting.


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[Racerbvd]

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by rsrguy

RS,

You friggin knocked it clean out of the park with all of these pics.

Thanks for posting all the runs of pics….. bloody awesome!!!!!


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[porsche tech]

Bunch a motors and a local Stearman:

[Jolly Amaranto]

Fredericksburg, Texas, circa 1915-1920.

[Dantilla]

Originally Posted by bugstrider

Surprising to see countersunk, flush rivets right above corrugated skin.
Flush rivets are used to reduce drag. Doesn't seem like a high priority on the rest of this (amazing) flying machine.

[Nate2046]

Originally Posted by Dantilla

Surprising to see countersunk, flush rivets right above corrugated skin.
Flush rivets are used to reduce drag. Doesn't seem like a high priority on the rest of this (amazing) flying machine.

Made me think of this madness.

[rsrguy]

Got the old bird bound this morning... Avemco is fast.
This is one of the last items on the punch list before the cfi's do their self check outs this saturday morning. We unfortunately had the landing gear crack the skin during the scheduled rapid disassembly in SC a few months back. Any way the repair had to be made with resourcinol. Someone had already done a repair and had some filler sourced from the "aviation " section of their flaps... so the section of skin between ribs was low. This made a double sided scab repair easy. The rest of the pictures were just stages of repair over the past 2 weeks.
It's the ceconite system over varnish. Super fill, ceconite fabric, Nitrate, buterate, randofill, more super fill(approved under stc with the ceconite process) then some sealer before some ranthane.

[john70t]

Last Sunday I went to early dinner in Ypsilanti, hoping to see some aircraft from the nearby Thunder Over Michigan airshow: https://www.yankeeairmuseum.org/airshow/ Turns out there was a accident. The show was shut down. The aircraft somehow landed in a parking lot next to an apartment building and nobody on the ground was injured. A freaking miracle.

https://theaviationist.com/2023/08/14/privately-owned-mig-23-crashes-during-airshow-in-michigan/

[rsrguy]

Got it all back together.. annual complete . Flying in the am provided the weather holds up.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by rsrguy

Got the old bird bound this morning... Avemco is fast.
This is one of the last items on the punch list before the cfi's do their self check outs this saturday morning. We unfortunately had the landing gear crack the skin during the scheduled rapid disassembly in SC a few months back. Any way the repair had to be made with resourcinol. Someone had already done a repair and had some filler sourced from the "aviation " section of their flaps... so the section of skin between ribs was low. This made a double sided scab repair easy. The rest of the pictures were just stages of repair over the past 2 weeks.
It's the ceconite system over varnish. Super fill, ceconite fabric, Nitrate, buterate, randofill, more super fill(approved under stc with the ceconite process) then some sealer before some ranthane.

You make it look easy, but I doubt it is.. very nice.

[edgemar]

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by rsrguy

Got it all back together.. annual complete . Flying in the am provided the weather holds up.

How did the flight go?????

Sincerely,
Curious

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by rsrguy

Got the old bird bound this morning... Avemco is fast.
This is one of the last items on the punch list before the cfi's do their self check outs this saturday morning. We unfortunately had the landing gear crack the skin during the scheduled rapid disassembly in SC a few months back. Any way the repair had to be made with resourcinol. Someone had already done a repair and had some filler sourced from the "aviation " section of their flaps... so the section of skin between ribs was low. This made a double sided scab repair easy. The rest of the pictures were just stages of repair over the past 2 weeks.
It's the ceconite system over varnish. Super fill, ceconite fabric, Nitrate, buterate, randofill, more super fill(approved under stc with the ceconite process) then some sealer before some ranthane.

Teach me Obi-Wan… dang you make this look easy..

Is the blue material, Poly-Fill?

[rsrguy]

Super fill

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by rsrguy

Super fill

Thanks


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[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by Nate2046

Made me think of this madness.

You would be amazed at the number of fasteners on a modern plane. The funny thing is, you can have a dozen different fasteners in a small area. They vary in length, type, etc.

[Brown747]

Ouch….Alaska
Santa Ana. Looks like a fixit job for Jeff Higgins!
Accident: Alaska B738 at Santa Ana on Aug 20th 2023, hard landing punches gear through wing