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12 July 2009, 02:28 PM
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Dixie 800 Mag Cap & Rotors
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Have made a batch of Qty 20 Dixie 800 Magneto caps & rotors - for my Hisso - and selling or trading the spares ... put some photos on my Barnstormers AD. Photo of my Hisso.  Link to my Barnstormers AD. BARNSTORMERS.COM Rgds John. Hvd1041@yahoo.com Last edited by Hvd1041; 12 July 2009 at 02:36 PM. |
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19 July 2009, 06:18 AM
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Historcial Aircraft Wood Working Class Offered
Blue Swallow Aircraft, LLC is offering a two day class in historical aircraft wood working at our workshop in Keswick, VA Sept. 12-13th. We are conveniently located two hours south of Washington, DC and one hour west of Richmond, VA.
The program will include instructions in wood selection, grading and cutting to size from rough planks. Jig building and their use. Proper procedures for steaming and bending wood. The selection of adhesives and other wood fasteners. Splicing of spars and other wood structures correctly. The class is open to anyone who is interested in building aircraft and is limited to 6 people. Some accommodations on site are available as well as camping. For additional details visit our web site: BlueSwallowAircraft dot com, and look under the Services button. Thanks. |
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19 July 2009, 02:28 PM
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Scout Pilot
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Northern Virginia
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John,
You can count on Great War Aerodrome being there! We are very interested in this class and look forward to participating in the first one. For those of you who haven't seen John's work... this is a real opportunity. I hope others from the forum will join us at Blue Swallow Aircraft. Rob & Shelly |
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13 September 2009, 04:22 PM
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Two-seater Pilot
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Virginia
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BSA Woodworking
Five stars for the weekend woodworking course at Gaertner's Blue Swallow in Keswick, VA. John does Avro 504s and Jennys. (Top to Bottom). John's 504 rudder; Blue Swallow castings and parts-Avro rudder pedals; windscreens; hubs; Jenny wing discussion of spar splicing.
-pete   
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14 September 2009, 07:07 PM
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Scout Pilot
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Northern Virginia
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Pete is right, the class was time well spent. John did an exceptional job of breaking all the topics down into simple subjects and offering clear, useful instructions on how to accomplish the task.
The basic concept was to start with several pieces of unfinished lumber and go through all the steps of turning them into an aircraft part. Probably the best part of the class was the discussion... both during the class and afterward. Here are a few shots I took over the two days... Here is the class at the begining of the first day... from left to right Pete, Shelly, Rob, Paul, and John Gaertner. I'm taking the photo  Rob routing the former that the class built... starting from unfinished lumber.  Pete watching John explain the finer points of Rib construction  John taking freshly steamed capstrips from the steamer...  and quickly putting them into the capstrip buck... 
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24 September 2009, 04:39 PM
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Two-seater Pilot
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Virginia
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Blue Swallow Sidcots
John Gaertner's woodworking course included a sneak preview of his
sidcot flight suit prototype...keep an eye on BlueSwallow.com website. More course photos at: BlueSwallow12 13 Sept Wood Course pictures by drrivah1 - Photobucket -pete |
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19 October 2009, 01:17 AM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: San Antonio
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Sopwith and English bits
Guy Black at Retrotech in England has some amazing reproduction Sopwith parts. I have gotten a reproduction ASI and throttle quadrant, both perfect. They also have Aldis gunsights, sticks and spade grips, firing levers, sight glasses, other instruments, trailing edges and say they will be making flying wires. They have a catalog/price list of sorts as of this writing, with much more stuff.
Highly recommended. Last edited by snj5; 19 October 2009 at 01:26 AM. |
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19 October 2009, 07:28 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Wausau, WI
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Hre is the link to RetroTec
Retrotec Limited - The Specialist Historic Aircraft Restoration & Engineering Company
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RAF56 Ball Glenn 'Chip' Burt in Honor of Albert Ball. A fine pilot, yes, but a man of God first and last. |
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25 October 2009, 04:17 AM
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Two-seater Pilot
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Virginia
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AME Continuing Education
Somewhat off-topic, but a flyer for some upcoming aerospace and mechanical engineering courses crossed my desk recently:
1. Airframe design and Repairs Feb 1-4, 2010 UCLA Extension Mostly aluminum structures. Intended for design, stress and liaison engineers. Text: M. C. Y. Niu, Airframe Structural Design Conmilit Press. 1988 2. Airframe Stress Analysis and Sizing Aluminum structures February 151-19, 2010 Text: M. C. I. Liu Airframe Stress Analysis and Sizing Conmilit Press, 1999 3. Structural Integrity of New and Aging Metallic Aircraft March 15-19 2010 Fatigue, durability and damage tolerance/ testing Text: No book: course notes and handouts will be provided Comments from any AMEs out there on the textbooks? -pete |
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