[rollei_list] Re: shimming maxwell screens
- From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:47:39 -0500
At 07:17 PM 7/20/2008, Richard K and Jerry wrote, in part:
Austin,
Nah! I'm more the Beechcraft STAGGER Wing myself! That's because
I can't take time-off for a new knee joint operation.
Jerry
When I was a little kid in rural Michigan we lived across a lake
from a small general aviation airport. I got so I could identify
most of the aircraft I saw. There were actually a couple of
stagerwings there. I think Beechcraft also used radial engines so
that they sounded different. Someone near the lake had a PBY
Catalina and used to land it on the lake and fish out of it. Most
of the planes were Piper Cubs, Taylorcraft, small Cessna's, etc,
but there a few larger jobs.
---
Richard Knoppow
Richard,
You are missing the main point. Jerry was one of the designers of
the PBY and worked on them in San Diego.
On a somewhat different point:
Downtown Airpark, in Oklahoma City, first full-time home of the Aero
Commander, and where I worked during High School, learned to fly, and
had my first light plane crash (I wasn't flying it); is completely
stripped to the ground. Last July when I was back here house
shopping they were still overhauling commanders there. Today there
is nothing there but the runways, and soon I think there will be
condos there. We are in the middle of a housing boom, brought on by
the oil and natural gas booms. (Not to mention the donations, about
$250 million to date, to our "Other School" by T. Boone Pickins).
The very first Commander, the one without contra-rotating props, is
now on display at the OKC fairgrounds, at least the shell of it
is. I think they call it "Old Blue". (That plane flew from OKC to
Washington DC with one propeller removed, as a demonstration event.)
Jerry, I'm ahead of you. Had both knees done on Dec 7, 2006. Will
soon be time for a re-line job.
DAW
Don Williams
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Moore, OK 73160-0703
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