By: ZRX61 - 31st March 2015 at 23:12
Spoke with Pete today, he’s going to scan the restoration album onto a disc & let me know when it’s ready.
By: CADman - 23rd March 2015 at 22:26
Couple of shots taken at Dayton. PM me if you require higher res images.
Paul
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By: ZRX61 - 23rd March 2015 at 21:28
Here’s one I took, feel free to use it. It was taken the day it set off from Van Nuys to Dayton:
As you can see the fuselage is sitting at an angle to make it narrower on the trailer (horizontal stab is still mounted). The orange contraption was hinged & the Spit was mounted level, then the left side raised with a forklift, supports fold out of the way & the entire plot laid over. It’s probably still laying around at Dayton in the weeds someplace. The flag now resides in my garage.
By: ZRX61 - 23rd March 2015 at 21:01
Just remembered, I’ve got one of the original wheels laying around someplace.
By: ZRX61 - 23rd March 2015 at 20:50
Pete Regina at VNY has a photo album of the entire restoration. I’ve been asking to borrow it for years so I can scan the pics as I also worked on it. If anyone ever takes it apart again they will find my *autograph* hidden in all sorts of odd places.
I can tell you that it still has PA908 on the main spar doohicky as we refused to paint over that bit. It’s also stenciled inside in a few places that most people will never see.
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March 22, 2015 at 12:06 pm