Glenn's Back!

My buddy Glenn has stopped by the airport a few times last week but this week is the first that he's spending any time out in his hangar. Here he instructs his nephew Kenny while the two of them take the tail off the Standard.

Welcome back Glenn!

7-13 Cleaning the struts.

Started stripping the wings struts today. Sandy Anderson came by and let me some industrail strength stripper to use which takes everything right off. He says the other stuff I was using is "Hand-lotion" compared to this.

Terry in his Waco

Terry flew his Waco YKS for me yesterday morning. We thought we'd be grounded because the generator wouldn't come online (airplane uses the battery to provide the spark unlike magnetos) but we thought we'd at least start it up. Then we thought we'd take it around the patch just once. We levelled off after takeoff and -voila!-the generator was online. Smiles all-around! We flew around for 10 minutes but the humidity was unbearable so we landed.

Dawn Patrol

I went out yesterday morning to take some photos of Terry Chastain flying his Waco YKS and found he and Mo Hunn flying Park Zone RC airplanes. Mo is turning final here in his Corsair.

Fun on the 4th.

Left: Waiting on the horses.

Right: There they are!

Horsies!

We went up to my parents who live in a small little town just south of Des Moines, Iowa for the 4th. Linds was all excited to see the parade, get some candy, see the firetrucks and horses, get some candy--you get the picture.

Later that night we went to my cousins who live just outside of town to watch the fireworks-the first time Linds has seen fireworks. She loved them!

A good day stripping.

Spent more time today stripping paint off the fairings and started to strip the cowling. After about 3 coats of the stripper, we nearly have the fairings and jury struts completely stripped. Two coats have done a marvelous job taking the paint off of the boot cowl so we're hoping to be done monday.

We heading to Iowa to my folks for the 4th of July tomorrow.

Cub Progress - July 1, 2009

Since our buddy Glenn is out for a while recovering from prostate surgery, Sky and I decided to make the most of it by removing paint off the fairings and struts. The paint remover is nasty stuff. If it touches your skins, it has a strong burning sensation. It's hot.

We got part way thru and then found out that Glenn's hose is broken and doesn't fit on the faucet anymore, so we went and got another hose and ice cream cones for good measure. We hope to have these pieces done tomorrow and start on the struts.