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Tom-D

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and a labor of love.

these pictures are from a Fairchild restorer friend of ours.
 

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Dang Tom! Somebody's got serious sheet-metal skills! Nice!
 
I was thinking it looked like the tv studio set from "Tool Time".
 
Magnificent.


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AggieMike88 said:
Fully agree.
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The pictures do not do it justice, there is a full loft and every collectable is like new and well displayed. The building is modeled after a New England barn. I spent an over night with them and was in awe the whole time.
 
KeithASanford said:
Nice Fairchild, but I'd kill for that work space.
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Well the next time you have $200,000 and nothing to do, build one.
Then spend about half your life collecting stuff to make it a nice man cave. :)
 
Looks like re-claimed barn wood shop.

We looked into flooring a room with some old barnwood we have. Do you have any idea how expensive it is? The wood has to be gone over with a metal detector and every nail and piece of metal removed. Then it has to be milled and then put in a kiln to kill the bugs. Last estimate before we gave up was approaching $30/sq. ft. to get 'er done!

Dang right I"m envious. Beautiful shop. Beautiful plane. I'll bet his wife and horses and dogs and cats are beautiful too! :lol:
 
txflyer said:
Looks like re-claimed barn wood shop.

We looked into flooring a room with some old barnwood we have. Do you have any idea how expensive it is? The wood has to be gone over with a metal detector and every nail and piece of metal removed. Then it has to be milled and then put in a kiln to kill the bugs. Last estimate before we gave up was approaching $30/sq. ft. to get 'er done!

Dang right I"m envious. Beautiful shop. Beautiful plane. I'll bet his wife and horses and dogs and cats are beautiful too! :lol:
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Actually I believe it was built with new wood. It's just been up a while.

Take it with a grain, I wasn't there when it was built.
 
txflyer said:
Looks like re-claimed barn wood shop.

We looked into flooring a room with some old barnwood we have. Do you have any idea how expensive it is? The wood has to be gone over with a metal detector and every nail and piece of metal removed. Then it has to be milled and then put in a kiln to kill the bugs. Last estimate before we gave up was approaching $30/sq. ft. to get 'er done!

Dang right I"m envious. Beautiful shop. Beautiful plane. I'll bet his wife and horses and dogs and cats are beautiful too! :lol:
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I was just talking to someone about the cost of this stuff and she pointed out two shows on HGTV. One is "Flip or Flop", based I think in Southern California and they often pay well above the $30/sq. ft. The other is "Fixer Upper", based in Austin, Texas and they harvest the same quality wood themselves for a fraction of the price. It's gotta be better where you are.
 
KeithASanford said:
I was just talking to someone about the cost of this stuff and she pointed out two shows on HGTV. One is "Flip or Flop", based I think in Southern California and they often pay well above the $30/sq. ft. The other is "Fixer Upper", based in Austin, Texas and they harvest the same quality wood themselves for a fraction of the price. It's gotta be better where you are.
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I would suggest that this building was built, and lived in long before these two shows existed. Several of the following picture were taken 2010.
 

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Nice post pics when they get a little further along.
 
I just love having a wood floor in my shop. Way better than concrete.
 
Definitely a labor of love. There are fewer and fewer people that have the passion and the drive to take on restorations like this. I'm finally pulling my Fairchild out and getting started on the small parts for now. The big stuff will have to wail until we get moved this next year. Here is what it will look like eventually: http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Fairchild/5001L-1.jpg

I'm the real oddball in the Fairchild world, as the AT-21 uses conventional steel tube structure, wood structures as well as Duramold. Unfortunately, there has been nothing produced with Duramold since 1945, and it's almost a lost art. I will have to learn the process from scratch.
 
That is one sweet looking war-bird!! I have never seen one before. Was it designed as a trainer?
 
Kevin: It originally was designed as a bomber/crew trainer. Instead of the .30 cal gun in the nose, it had a Norden bomb sight. The 2 bomb bays could carry 6 100 pound practice bombs each. By the time the aircraft was really in production, it wasn't needed as a bomb trainer, so the Norden sight was removed, a new plexiglass nose with the .30 cal gun was fitted instead. Interestingly, mine spend most of it's operational life at Ellington Field, in Houston, as a crew hack. Overall size wise, it will just fit in the footprint of a King Air 200, weighs the same, but has 200 less hp per side and cruises 130 mph slower.
 
It will be cool when I finally get it back in the air, Kevin. It's also high on the weird airplane scale. Love the weird birds.
 
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