DougJ
Well Known Member
I just put my new-to-me RV-6 in a hangar at Fresno Chandler, (KFCH) but I have no tools or equipment out there yet. I started changing out the existing throttle and mixture controls after work yesterday and realized I didn't bring everything I needed from home. While scrounging for needed items I met Alan Buchner who has a hangar/museum right across from me. Great gentalman with an incredible aviation resume. We talked for a while as he showed me around his hangar and aircraft, and he helped me out with what I needed to progress on the work I was doing.
Later on he stopped by to see how I was doing, and it looked like I wouldn't finish since the bracket I made was going to need to be re-worked. He then asked if I wanted to go along for a short flight in his Waco QDC! I only tripped twice getting out of the hangar before he could change his mind. What a great experience, I even got a little "wheel" time before we went back to the airport. He was planning on going to Paso Robles for a gathering for the Javier Arango Aeroplane Collection this morning. While most of the twenty-some WW1 era flyable airplanes are kept elsewhere, there would be several there, plus a wide variety of other aircraft. Alan invited me to go, and I said I would if I got the RV together.
I took the bracket home, cut it up and welded it back together so the mixture cable would actually point at the mixture arm, and in the morning got her all buttoned back up. A bit of a late start, but I bounced over to KPRB and saw some great airplanes!
Sopwith Camel and Fokker F1
Fokker D VI
Sopwith Snipe
Beautiful work
Scratch built - ENGINES
A few of the WWII birds
RV parking, well, actually almost anything parking
I forgot my camera, so these are off my cell phone, and I only got pics of a few of the huge number of aircraft there. Hope you enjoy what little there is.
This little airplane has already introduced me to a bunch of great people and experiences and I've only had it two weeks!
Doug
Later on he stopped by to see how I was doing, and it looked like I wouldn't finish since the bracket I made was going to need to be re-worked. He then asked if I wanted to go along for a short flight in his Waco QDC! I only tripped twice getting out of the hangar before he could change his mind. What a great experience, I even got a little "wheel" time before we went back to the airport. He was planning on going to Paso Robles for a gathering for the Javier Arango Aeroplane Collection this morning. While most of the twenty-some WW1 era flyable airplanes are kept elsewhere, there would be several there, plus a wide variety of other aircraft. Alan invited me to go, and I said I would if I got the RV together.
I took the bracket home, cut it up and welded it back together so the mixture cable would actually point at the mixture arm, and in the morning got her all buttoned back up. A bit of a late start, but I bounced over to KPRB and saw some great airplanes!
Sopwith Camel and Fokker F1
Fokker D VI
Sopwith Snipe
Beautiful work
Scratch built - ENGINES
A few of the WWII birds
RV parking, well, actually almost anything parking
I forgot my camera, so these are off my cell phone, and I only got pics of a few of the huge number of aircraft there. Hope you enjoy what little there is.
This little airplane has already introduced me to a bunch of great people and experiences and I've only had it two weeks!
Doug
I am preparing to build a scale model of that Hun and I can't find absolutely nothing on-line. And of course any more photos (fuselage, wings engine, gear etc.) are also welcomed.
