Plane Crazy...

I just spent 8 days at the busiest airplane patch in the world... EAA
(Experimental Aircraft Association) annual flyin at Oshkosh Wisconsin...
I was among 770,000 plane crazy people beholding 11,000 aircraft on the
ground and in the air...
http://www.eaa.org/

While shopping at EAA's Aero Mart I found the aircraft of my dreams... a
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk Mk 20... so once again it was time to called
The Bank of Mary... she supported my desire to purchase and restore this
pitiful looking trailer queen back to flying status...
http://home.earthlink.net/~netters2/lalovey/MyPoorChipmunk.JPG

Someday it might look as sweet as this Canadian Chipmunk belonging to
Bill Rose of Illinois...
http://home.earthlink.net/~netters2/lalovey/RCAFChipmunk.JPG

Or as neat as Art Scholls Super Chipmunk... who can forget his grueling
lomcevak maneuver in which the aircraft tumbles end over end... (note
his two place Super Chipmunk hangs in the EAA museum while his single
place Super Chipmunk is slated for the Air and Space Museum Washington)...
http://home.earthlink.net/~netters2/lalovey/ArtSchollSuperChipmunk.JPG

Any angle you choose to look at a Chipmunk... it's pure sex with wings...
http://home.earthlink.net/~netters2/lalovey/SmilingChipmunk.JPG
http://home.earthlink.net/~netters2/lalovey/SmartChippy.JPG

Honda is a EAA sponsor... Valentino Rossi wasn't there to comfort his
bike so I volunteered in the still of the night... he he he...
http://home.earthlink.net/~netters2/lalovey/DreamRacingTheRC211V.JPG
http://home.earthlink.net/~netters2/lalovey/RC211VThrottleBodies.JPG
http://home.earthlink.net/~netters2/lalovey/HondaV5Love.JPG

You're all welcome to yank and bank your brains loose in my true
military trainer...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it... the extended warranty in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/

 

I'm willing to give Mr. RC45 some lovin' in the meantime ....

-B

 

It's my lucky day when I can buy a handsome military specified trainer
for only 6K... fully restored and in flying condition a 252 HP Super
Chipmunk can fetch up to 90K...

Where the hell are you going to put it? The garage is

Mr.Chippy will hanger alone side the house until part by part will be
rebuilt in the Busy Little Shop next to Mr.RC45 and company...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it... the extended warranty in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/

 

Hi Larry - you'll *love* the chippy - I learned to fly in one in the early
70's, aged 15 (courtesy of the RAF and the Officer Training corps) - in all
my botched landings, I didn't manage to break one! As a proper military
trainer it's built for inverted flying, high G turns - all the really fun
stuff ) Best thing of all, it's *built* - none of that dodgy fibreglass
;o)
There's quite a movement to update 'em as part of restoration, a lot seem to
end up with bobbed wings, bubble canopies and somewhat more powerful
engines, my favourite so far is the "spitmunk" - I googled for "spitmunk"
but only got one useless hit - if I can find it, I have somewhere a Pilot
magazine with an article on updated chippies - if it turns up I'll mail you,
arrange to get a copy to you?

With the RAF/OTC training, I also got to go up for an hour in a Folland Gnat
fast-jet trainer with one of the Red Arrows pilots - damn glad I didn't have
any breakfast that day.....

Dave H.
(The engineer formerly known as Homeless)

 

Awesome project, Larry. How much time and money do you reckon
it'll take?

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Hiya Dave... thanks... but I have a copy of the Private Pilot article
outlining the Poor man's Spitfire thanks to EAA's museum achieves...
however I like your term Spitmunk much better...

Mr.Chippy needs more beans so I plan installing a new inline 6 cylinder
Lom M337 made in Czechoslovakia which only goes for 27K...
http://www.moraviation.com/
http://www.moraviation.com/why.html

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it... the extended warranty in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/

 

Hiya Henry... about 50K and about 10 years...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it... the extended warranty in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/

 

Certainly... but they're doing tail first lomcevaks on climb... Art did
nose first lomcevaks diving for the ground...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it... the extended warranty in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/

 

Yea, the Bank of Mary will want to call in the loan about then.... Will
get a good return for the initial investment....

 

Yes... Art Scholl did Reno from 80 to 84... but out over the ocean
during the movie Top Gun he entered a flat inverted spin and did not
recover... neither pilot nor aircraft were ever salvaged from the great
depths...


Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it... the extended warranty in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/

 

Hiya Aaron... it would have nice to link up a NG friend at Kosh... I
don't go every year but I will announce the next pilgrimage...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it... the extended warranty in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/

 

Have you asked over at Rec.Aviation.Ultralight?

Get involved with a local group of UL'ers - you might be amazed at what can
be purchased - quickly - for a low $. I'm into UL's - the poor man's
flying - and perhaps the most fun type of flying (a nice combination).

JimWilliamson.net

 

Kinda like that $24,000 you got for MR RC45?
You know you ain't gonna sell it. LOL
Mag

 

At an airshow in Ottawa (Can) many years ago I watched Harry Tope auger in
his Hawker Hurricane. He was planning on heading home after his performance
and the plane was full of fuel and some baggage. As he made a sharp turn to
come down the flight line he lost lift, the plane stalled and nosed straight
in.
B

 

Yup, a while back. Found a bunch of guys around here that fly, but no
one had anything I could afford. I might wind up using a half VW since
I could use some extra weight in the nose anyway.

Right now I just don't have the time to get really involved, but in a
few years when I have school out of the way, the kids are out of
daycare, and a few things are actually stable I'll start playing with
airborne motorcycles

Steve
95 Buell S2
96 Kawasaki ZX7R

 

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