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Old Aeroplane Company.....

PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:14 am
by Slotback
Worked here for a week for work experiance. :)

Worlds only Merlin powered P-40.
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Went up in T-28:
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Thanks for viewing

Re: Old Aeroplane Company.....

PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:33 am
by JSpahn
Sweet! were you a bit worried as to the condition of the AC? :o Very cool job you have there [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Re: Old Aeroplane Company.....

PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:46 am
by Slotback
Sweet! were you a bit worried as to the condition of the AC? :o Very cool job you have there [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Nope.

I've been in and out of every crevice of that T-28, and not a single thing was wrong with it. :) The plane is also built VERY strongly.

Re: Old Aeroplane Company.....

PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:27 am
by C
Sweet! were you a bit worried as to the condition of the AC? :o Very cool job you have there [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Nope.

I've been in and out of every crevice of that T-28, and not a single thing was wrong with it. :) The plane is also built VERY strongly.


Nice Trojan. Nothing wrong with its condition for its age.

Re: Old Aeroplane Company.....

PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:47 pm
by Omag 2.0
The Trojan is a cool plane... it has a nice growl to it...  :)

Re: Old Aeroplane Company.....

PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:54 pm
by JSpahn
Didn't mean any ill will with that statement by the way ;D Personally, Im a technician and pretty sensitive when i comes to my work.

Re: Old Aeroplane Company.....

PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:42 pm
by beaky
Lucky you...!  :o
It's easy to look at that rear-seater panel and think "Jeez; looks pretty junky.." but most of that stuff is inop and marked as such; doesn't mean it's an unsafe airplane. They were built strong, and assuming that Trojan never saw combat service, it's probably still nowhere near the end of its projected lifespan, in terms of stress.

Re: Old Aeroplane Company.....

PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:21 pm
by Hagar
Worked here for a week for work experiance. :)

Lucky old you. :D

That's a smashing P-40.

Re: Old Aeroplane Company.....

PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:26 pm
by Slotback
Hey thanks for comments everyone. :) And yes, the front seat panel was in perfect condition. :)

it has a nice growl to it...

You should try being inside one. The sound is just.... AWESOME, and loud.

Re: Old Aeroplane Company.....

PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:39 pm
by pepper_airborne
You are one lucky engineer! Must have been a pleasure flying and working on those birds!!

Re: Old Aeroplane Company.....

PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:55 pm
by a1
Lucky you. The in flight shots make me want to jump in the plane myself. ;D

Re: Old Aeroplane Company.....

PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:56 am
by Aerophile
Swweeeet!  8-)

Re: Old Aeroplane Company.....

PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:24 am
by Layne.
Nice i was there today before my flight :D The P-40 had it's engine covers off and the rear part of the canopy with more markings than that :D.

The P-51 is magnificent there huh :D T-28 is very good too nice big and a convenient  ladder :D we got a tour of the museum (it was packed when we where there, full of planes not people lol) by a guy name Rick who was an engineer in US Navy, saw quite a few other people there too.