Building the Monosport Exhaust

Glenn Peck adjusts the jig for the Monosport exhaust he's building.
He won't have the airplanes at this years AAA Fly-In up at Blakesburg, IA.

Bill Austin gets a Rawdon T1!

Bill Austin returned this week with his recently acquired Rawdon T1 from North Perry Airport in Miami.

The airplane had been built as a sprayer and owned by a banner-towing operation. The airplane hasn't flown in years but is complete having set inside a hanger the entire time. It's serial number 31 out of the 36 built.

This will make the second Rawdon at our field, the other being Phil and Terry Chastains. Their father, Jack Chastain, formerly worked for Herb Rawdon and served as Test Pilot pilot for the T1 series.

T-28 Trojans make a pass.

The Aeroshell Aerobatic Team.

Gene Soucy and Teresa Stokes.

We were asked by a magazine photographer to go for a

photo-shoot alongside our friend Mike Thern in his

yellow Fairchild 24 Sunday morning.

Sky snapped this great shot during that shoot.

This was the most exciting part to an otherwise drab and rainy Oshkosh.

Oshkosh-Long Post

Sky and I on our way up to Oshkosh Monday morning. Clear weather and smooth flying.

The view of Oshkosh looking north from the final to 36L.




A panorama of the Vintage West parking/camping area. That's right, it's empty. Why? Maybe it was the weather...but the homebuilts and warbirds made it. Maybe the economy in general or the price of gas? Or maybe it's just the owners of Vintage Aircraft have finally got fed-up with the way they're treated by Vintage and EAA and they no longer attend.
You decide.

Aerobatics.

The CAF's B-29 "Fifi" attended, its first visit since 1995.

A Corsair takes off runway 18. Several Corsairs were in attendance as part of

the Salute to Naval Aviation.

Always a crowd favorite, a P-51 Mustang lifts off the runway.

A Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, the only one flyable in the world.

Sky tries out Eric Presten's Bleriot.

Sky and a F4F Wildcat.

Sky in front of Fifi.

Andrew King sits in the Curtiss Pusher.

A Harriet Quimby reenactor poses by the Bleriot.

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It starts!

http://youtu.be/3d4F2XP26c8

It started for us twice this past week! But we still have some figuring out to do. The first time, we let it run for about a minute and then shut it down because we had no oil pressure.

After clearing the block in the line, we tried to start it again. No luck.

We tried again two mornings after. It lit on the first blade. This time we had oil pressure and we let in run for 2-3 minutes. It was idling at 550 rpm's. Glenn pulled the throttle back and you guessed it, the engine quit. Couldn't get it started again.

Glenn is gone for the weekend and I have to go back to work tues pm so we'll probably try again mid-july.

Testing the fit.

Jimmy Johnson had his Emeraude wings ready to test fit on the fuselage this morning. The airplane was built by someone else and put into storage during the '80's. Jimmy bought the airplane, stripped the fabric and is in the process of rebuilding/restoring the aircraft.

It wouldn't be spring in St Louis...

unless I had to change a least one cylinder on my Ranger.