Here are my best photos of the T-28 restoration work from last year even had a few road trips!
This is the Grumman Bearcat at Planes of Fame museum in Chino, CA. I stopped at the shop there in January to ask them some basic restoration questions while I was in town on business. The finish of parts is inspiring and I really like the Aeroproducts prop, similar to the one we are going to use.
Here we, my neighbor Tom and I, got the Mexican donor fuselage on the rotisserie, it made cleaning the parts out much easier and obviously work on the bottom possible without laying on the floor.
This is Gregg Weitzmans original A model he showed it to me in February, located just inland from Santa Barbara, CA. Very attractive airplane.
Checking out my mentor Jack LaBounty, his impeccable A model restoration work in Washington, Chris Zimmer and friends flew down from Everett. This is the front landing gear trunk upside down.
Stripping out our Mexican forward landing gear trunk, again my neighbor Tom had to assist. By the way, I had no idea that the extension spring was loaded, I untied the telephone wire that held the gear in, I turned and WHAM! the gear flew out. Lucky I wasn't sitting on the bucket seat!
This is the Grumman Bearcat at Planes of Fame museum in Chino, CA. I stopped at the shop there in January to ask them some basic restoration questions while I was in town on business. The finish of parts is inspiring and I really like the Aeroproducts prop, similar to the one we are going to use.
Here we, my neighbor Tom and I, got the Mexican donor fuselage on the rotisserie, it made cleaning the parts out much easier and obviously work on the bottom possible without laying on the floor.
This is Gregg Weitzmans original A model he showed it to me in February, located just inland from Santa Barbara, CA. Very attractive airplane.
Checking out my mentor Jack LaBounty, his impeccable A model restoration work in Washington, Chris Zimmer and friends flew down from Everett. This is the front landing gear trunk upside down.
Stripping out our Mexican forward landing gear trunk, again my neighbor Tom had to assist. By the way, I had no idea that the extension spring was loaded, I untied the telephone wire that held the gear in, I turned and WHAM! the gear flew out. Lucky I wasn't sitting on the bucket seat!
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