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Re: Two things you don't see every day
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:27 am
by Bruce Fenstermacher
You just never know how a thread is going to go. I show a picture of a flying 1918 Jenny of which there are maybe 15 and less than 20 in the FAA registery and who knows how many actually fly. And what do we comment the most about? The twin home built that happened to be in the picture.
Go figure.
One thing I'm pretty sure is no one will be rebuilding that twin when it is 91 years old.
Re: Two things you don't see every day
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:48 am
by N2255D
subaru powered champ.jpg
Did you see this beauty there Bruce? A friend who attended sent this picture.
Re: Two things you don't see every day
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 2:10 am
by jrenwick
N2255D wrote:Did you see this beauty there Bruce? A friend who attended sent this picture.
OMG, that's actually a piece of rain-gutter downspout strapped to the side of that thing!!!
FAA/PMA, no doubt!
Re: Two things you don't see every day
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:48 am
by Bruce Fenstermacher
Walt I've seen the aircraft pictured before but not this particular day. It is powered by an car engine of some sort I think Subaru. Note the ground adjustable carbon fibor prop. Yes the rain spout is, well, thrifty. The guy even has the forthought to use the rain spout mounting brackets. Now that's old school west coast thrifty.
BTW this Champ is flown under the Experimental Restricted category.
Re: Two things you don't see every day
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 2:33 pm
by GAHorn
Sooo.... here we were talking about rare, original, genuine-antique aircraft that are still in airworthy condition....(in fact if the truth be known, they are probably more airworthy today than they were in their truly-original condition
),,,,, and then the thread turns towards flying machinery which emanated from a lawn-chair factory, but whose selling-prices were determined in the secrecy of a New York Penthouse by Bernie Madoff and my client, R. Allen Stanford* (whose 17-pilot flight dept I conducted ground school) .... and then, in reflection of those inflated prices, the thread turns toward the very real value of genuine certificated designs.... and Bruce complains about the convoluted turns the thread is taking..... as he takes us into installations of owner-produced rain-gutter parts and the merits of installation on certificated airplanes???
Whew! Who was it that quit because they were bored?
*
R. Allen Stanford Cries About Flying Commercial,
Flamboyant financier Robert Allen Stanford has been having a difficult time since the SEC accused him of perpetrating a "massive fraud" through his wealth-management firm, Stanford Financial. Because of the charges pending against him, Stanford was deprived of taking his rightful place as No. 405 on the Forbes list of richest Americans ... since they froze his assets, he's had to live like a poor person. Meaning:
He's actually had to fly commercial. "They make you take your shoes off and everything — it's terrible," he complained
(gahorn note: Yeah, Allen...in order to prevent hijacking*, the airport-security folks treat you almost like ..you're ..a criminal !....) http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/04/ro ... eaten.html
*Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is accused of cheating 50,000 customers out of $8 billion dollars ....The SEC alleges financier Robert Allen Stanford is running a Madoff-like scheme.
The Securities Exchange Commission alleges Stanford ran a fraud promising investors impossible returns, much like Bernard Madoff's $50 billion alleged Ponzi scheme. ..."
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Busines ... 014&page=1
Stanford Aviation Terminal.jpg
*OK, Bruce...
how about that for hijacking?
Re: Two things you don't see every day
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:01 pm
by jrenwick
Re: Two things you don't see every day
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:39 pm
by GAHorn
I must admit.... I don't get that. (I thought ACORN was an anti- poverty-activist group, and Bill Ayers an anti-establishement, ex-terrorist, nee' conflicted revisionist , and as a present-day wannabee professor....is now PRO-establishment.)
Now, mentioning ACORN and Bill Ayers on the same sentence....Now THAT is "Two things you don't see every day."... and, therefore jrenwick... proves you are not playing the thread-hijack-game in good faith!
Re: Two things you don't see every day
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:53 pm
by Bruce Fenstermacher
Well George at least you eventually showed a picture of what I'm sure is an airport or at the very least a sign leading to one. I wasn't complaining about the twist and turns, though yours was a stretch.
Yes I agree lots of antiques are more airworthy than they were when they left the factory. This Jenny no doubt is one of them.
I think the twin has merit though not my first choice of things to spend time and way to much money on. Neither is the Curtis actually. Truth is the guy just trying to stay in the air with a Billy Penn down spout cooling duct is just as interesting to me.
Re: Two things you don't see every day
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:42 pm
by jrenwick
gahorn wrote:
I must admit.... I don't get that. (I thought ACORN was an anti- poverty-activist group, and Bill Ayers an anti-establishement, ex-terrorist, nee' conflicted revisionist , and as a present-day wannabee professor....is now PRO-establishment.)
It's just the whole guilt-by-association scheme. You're now inextricably linked to Stanford in this Association, and it's just a short hop to Bernie Madoff!
I can see the news stories about George Horn and his long-time associate, R.Allen Stanford....
Re: Two things you don't see every day
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:48 pm
by GAHorn