New Vehicle Arrival at MAPS!
September 20, 2020
Renovation Activities ~ 9/27/20
September 27, 2020
From Ken Ramsay:
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- The wings were installed on the OV-1 today (6 photos). Right wing on.
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- Left wing up.
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- Easy does it.
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- A little more.
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- Success.
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- The Beech is getting its beauty treatment.
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- The new skin on the Corsair has been primed.
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- The damaged Drake underbelly is coming along. Look at all of those Clecos holding the structure together.
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- The first F-102 drop thank tail cone is taking shape. Rolling a cone is a very exacting process.
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- I’m working on repairing the wind damaged F-102 elevon. All of the old rivets and screws have been removed. Now to reassemble it.
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- Paul began finish shaping the F-105’s stabilator right tip. Sanding and body putty. We are waiting for rib installation to finish the left outer leading edge.
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- Carl continues to make nose cones for the Sparrow missiles. We need 8.
From Ronald Schultz:
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- Flags at half-staff for the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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- John and Ken working on the Drake damage from last springs tornado storm.
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- Chet & Mike spray a non-reflective black paint on the cockpit-side of the engine cowlings so the pilots would not be blinded by the glare of the silver.
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- Some of our equipment in use around the complex.
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- Our Grumman F-11F Tiger and the LTV A-7E Corsair II
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- Aero Vodochody L-29 Delfin,PZL-Meilec SB LIM-2 Midget and the Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star
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- North American F-100D Super Sabre in the foreground of the Convair F-102A Delta Dagger.
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- Tony touching up the nose cone on the T-28 Trojan.
