"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
05/18/2018 at 14:38 • Filed to: None
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"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
05/18/2018 at 14:38 • Filed to: None | 3
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These two have been sitting forgotten at the airport for years. Tires flat, paint fading. If I knew how to work on airplanes and if I didn’t think it would be a trap...
Ash78, voting early and often
> Dusty Ventures
05/18/2018 at 14:50 |
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Cessna 152 and...Piper Tri-Pacer? Both worth saving (the right one a little more so)
Spaceball-Two
> Dusty Ventures
05/18/2018 at 14:51 |
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You’d be surprised how easy it is to work on a plane like that Cessna. Beyond the engine everything else is just cables. I used to help my dad work on his Cherokee and Moony.
Only Vespas...
> Dusty Ventures
05/18/2018 at 14:57 |
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What airport? I got my Private Pilot rating in a 152. It could be a rescue. The Tri-Pacer? Ooh. Fabric issues. Outside all this time...
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Dusty Ventures
05/18/2018 at 14:57 |
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Getting them flying would be easy. Getting your FAA inspection? That’s another story.
WilliamsSW
> Dusty Ventures
05/18/2018 at 15:09 |
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That’s sad. They should be flying not sitting.
That said, corrosion can be hell on a sitting aircraft, and those avionics don’t like sitting in the sun.
Would take a lot of time and $ to make them airworthy, but damn that Tripacer is cool.
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WilliamsSW
> Dusty Ventures
05/18/2018 at 15:12 |
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Btw what are the N numbers? Cessna looks like 111Y but that’s a Citation not a 152.
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Dusty Ventures
05/18/2018 at 15:19 |
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Story time:
My uncle owns a grass strip and a hangar that a late friend built. Many years ago, probably 15 or so, he let a friend keep a 172 in there. The friend flew it for a few years, but eventually just stopped. After the 2011 tornados hit Alabama, there was a 172 with brand new electronics and a brand new engine that was written off at the airport my Uncle works at(he’s a mechanic/instructor). Well, he happened to know where a good airframe was, so he asked the friend if he was going to do anything with the now wasting away plane. The friend told him it was his, so we started swapping stuff over. We got both of them stripped when the friend changed his mind, stating his son wanted it. Being the good natured person my Uncle is, he didn’t go after it when legally it was his. So it now is wasting away again in the hangar off my Uncles grass strip.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Only Vespas...
05/18/2018 at 16:23 |
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Fabric is an easy repair. If you’ve built an R/C plane from balsa and monokote, you can re-fabric a full-size plane. A friend of mine went to Houston to learn how to do it so he could re-skin the wings on his plane.
CaptDale - is secretly British
> Dusty Ventures
05/18/2018 at 17:28 |
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I have a free flight lesson a friend gifted me. I really need to go take that lesson.
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Dusty Ventures
> WilliamsSW
05/18/2018 at 18:29 |
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Cessna is N1UY. I’d have to check the other tomorrow
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Dusty Ventures
> Only Vespas...
05/18/2018 at 18:34 |
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BAF
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WilliamsSW
> Dusty Ventures
05/18/2018 at 18:34 |
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Ugh that’s a terrible radio call sign (one uniform yankee doesn’t roll off the tongue at ALL) as well as hard to read on the tail.
As I suspected that N number is expired. Someone needs to get it from the owner.
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Dusty Ventures
> WilliamsSW
05/18/2018 at 18:37 |
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It wouldn’t be nearly as hard to read if the bottom of the U wasn’t in the stripe. Whoever lined that up needs to be kicked in the shins
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WilliamsSW
> Dusty Ventures
05/18/2018 at 21:25 |
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Yeah that was dumb. I’m betting that the idiot is the person who put the N number on. Font is cheesy as hell.
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Dusty Ventures
> WilliamsSW
05/19/2018 at 14:24 |
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N7332D on the Piper. She’s a classic
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WilliamsSW
> Dusty Ventures
05/19/2018 at 15:25 |
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Geez, the registration expired 4 years ago. That plane has been sitting a long time. Find Mr. Tatro and make an offer!