Sometime we get to fly
I got the opportunity to work on a Beaver, reliving the past and better yet I got to fly it around. There are somethings I will never forget and the sound of a P+W 985 is one of them.
Had to go down to San Francisco to repair a Beaver, life is hard on a plane that has to sit day after day in the salt mash of the Bay. Thanks to my side kick and son we hammered it out and the customer was happy. Road repairs to plane and truck.
I am who I am because of my dad, my co pilot. He never was a pilot or a mechanic but when he asked me what I wanted to do with my life and I told him I wanted to be a pilot he said, “then you better be one”. He always backed me up…
Some times you have to just have to keep on running and sooner or later you will get where you are going but only to find that you are not at the finish.
Sometimes you just have to take a step to the side and help a Friend. He busted up a window in his Airstream and has been looking for 2 years to find someone to fix it, then a mutual friend said ” take it to John “, what are friends for? So I ended up…
Our 180H, N52010 is coming along nicely, Putting the last assembly to make sure all is done and working and the 170 finishing up on the wiring and FWF…….I can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel
we had an issue the other day installing the horizontal where the hinge bushing got stuck on the bolt. It turned out that the bushing for some reason had a smaller diameter than the bolt and when we installed the bolt it froze to the bushing….it took some creative skill and some new parts to…