Pietenpol-List: Well, I finally up an' dood it!
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 1999 11:48 am
Original Posted By: kyle ray
The weather here in the Sunny South has been absolutely un-sunny, so the strip is too wet to fly the T41. My buddy's Cub is back-ordered for a wing strut, so I just ain't goin' to fly soon. Made up my mind that this was a good time to stop procrastinating, and went up to the attic and got down that 1"x12"x12' spruce spar stock that I brought from Chicago when I moved into this house in '74. Gee, it makes nice smelling sawdust. When I was finished making a mess in the garage I had a pair of center section spars, all the pieces for the horizontal tail and probably enough for the verticals as well ( STILL have some left over!) Now I, too, can sit amongst the sticks and sawdust and make airplane noises. I just can't imagine life without flight. As long as I've been working on airplanes, and flying them, it still thrills me every time the wheels leave the runway. Icarus's only mistake was not reading the flight manual for his machine. His service ceiling was lower than his expectations. ________________________________________________________________________________
The weather here in the Sunny South has been absolutely un-sunny, so the strip is too wet to fly the T41. My buddy's Cub is back-ordered for a wing strut, so I just ain't goin' to fly soon. Made up my mind that this was a good time to stop procrastinating, and went up to the attic and got down that 1"x12"x12' spruce spar stock that I brought from Chicago when I moved into this house in '74. Gee, it makes nice smelling sawdust. When I was finished making a mess in the garage I had a pair of center section spars, all the pieces for the horizontal tail and probably enough for the verticals as well ( STILL have some left over!) Now I, too, can sit amongst the sticks and sawdust and make airplane noises. I just can't imagine life without flight. As long as I've been working on airplanes, and flying them, it still thrills me every time the wheels leave the runway. Icarus's only mistake was not reading the flight manual for his machine. His service ceiling was lower than his expectations. ________________________________________________________________________________