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We have one that goes nuts for barbecue Pringles. He'll take them right out of my wife's hand as she is trying to eat one. Had another that loved hot tea. He would dip a paw in and cup it so that he could get a bunch at one time. When I met Val long years ago, she said I corrupted her oldest...

Found a copy of a C-121A flight manual. Using the brakes while the gear is in motion can cause damage to the retraction linkage crosshead. If the wheel rotation must be stopped, the brakes have to be applied prior to selecting gear up.

Thanks for the feedback Rob. I knew a lot of the older stuff went to NASM, but wanted to be sure. I’ve got an acquaintance in the DC area that has offered to copy anything possible from the archives while there on his twice a week research trips. Just need to list it all and in what order to copy it.

Rotational inertia on gear wheels is a problem for most fast aircraft. My buddy Neil Anderson had to belly in the YF-16 at the first public demo due to not getting the wheels stopped prior to gear retraction. The spinning wheels caused the gear to slam into the locks and break one, jamming the...

Must be rich to be able to afford 30 pairs of NB’s.

Rob: Do you happen to have access to the old Bellanca records dating back to WW2, or know who does? My Fairchild was built by Bellanca in 1944. It was the 2nd of 39 they built under contract to Fairchild. Craig

Now have fun with looking up explosive rivets...:)

Haven’t seen any used since about 1987, when I was doing a repair that the structures guys required them.

Pre zip code for sure. Houston International was before it was Hobby Airport, so that should help date it a bit.

The guy interviewed about them, said the skins were individually corrugated in a dead soft condition and then heat treated and then final fitted to the individual airframe. Lot of hand touch labor there....

Take one of each and put them side by side under some good and fairly intense light and then evaluate which looks better........hint.....it won't be inkjet or laser.....

Bang out one or the other and it’s checkride, then do the other one. Way less of a chance of dorking up a checkride doing one at a time.

Heat shrink or paint. 5606 will attack duct tape fairly quickly.

How about a Case 150 with a 50 row plow....

I think they pull a 120 foot air seeder with theirs. They were visiting a Canadian farm one time and they were running even bigger seeders on their 22,000+ acres.

When I was in an engineering group many years back, they wanted our new secretary to have a Masters and it paid 11 to 16$ an hour..... 6 months and no applicants, the Masters requirement got dropped.

Check for buckling in the skins, binding of the aileron or flaps and bowing of the lift strut.

I get a couple offers on mine every few months. The royalties don't pay a lot, but it pays enough to eat out after the taxes. Ours got a bit complicated a few years ago when the lease company had to split the lease up for some legal reason. I now have a percentage of 6 separate leases that meet...

When I broke the fibula, I drove myself to the hospital. Got messed around a bit, as it was July 4th Friday, and had to park the truck at the furthermost section of parking and walk in. Was hurting quite a bit by that point. Was kidding with x-ray tech about whether I broke the foot or ankle...

Kinda like how I did my foot and ankle. Walking around the end of a work table in the hangar, stepped on an air hose and rolled the ankle. Guys heard it pop across the hangar even with the ground air conditioner and some other support equipment running. EMT's got me loaded on the gurney and...