Something for UnderneathTheRadar to get all excited about..... :ok:

http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/a...0/IMG_1067.jpg

Now the tricky question, where? And for those few of you who know exactly where I am hush up a bit would ya ;)

And me Jaba...:ok:

Hayden Lake, Idaho??? N728RT?? :E

Trent, you have outsmarted yourself completely this time :}

Pilotete..... yes indeed, but UTR is a newcomer to the beast so I was thinking of him. You are an old hand by now surely ;)

I nearly read that as 'old hag'!:p
Are you Oshkoshing this year?

Well done, nearly a whole page and TWO photos

No wonder some of the orignal, 1998, hands gave up

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Ok.

A little detail on the C195 that few get to see. The clever folding engine mounts.

http://www.fototime.com/{EE0D3E9B-90...2520mounts.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/{6AD771DC-58...unts%25202.jpg

Wot's happnin' with the Bonza?

I have a new set of wings - well new to me - they're off a 1978 A36 that had 7200TT (EZU has 7150ishTT) that was force landed wheels down in a farmers field. The nose wheel collapsed and stove in the nose bowl (zero other damage) and the insurance company wrote it off - it must have been severely UNDERinsured. I bought the wings, and some other bits, from a fella who purchased the aircraft as is, where is, from the insurance company.

A good mate who is an A&P in Georgia flew his V35B up to Ohio, checked out the wings, took pics and pronounced the wings perfect.

Jay. I just sent him the $ and he organised EVERYTHING else - its good to have mates.

http://www.fototime.com/{1B7DD5B9-75...t/SN150732.JPG

Interior behind spar

http://www.fototime.com/{22EEF9AC-35...rior%25202.JPG

Inside leading edge

http://www.fototime.com/{8B068F9A-09...20interior.JPG

Wheel well - note the wings came with gear and brakes - brakes near zero time.

http://www.fototime.com/{2F33E184-6C...l%2520well.JPG

Wings stored awaiting a buyer - ME!!

http://www.fototime.com/{2D0463F3-86...t/SN150718.JPG

The wings also came with the flaps, ailerons and gear doors.

http://www.fototime.com/{A6D17FA5-79...t/SN150720.JPG

As soon as I had paid for them the VERY strange fella I bought em off insisted they be removed from his hangar - so we stored em in another hangar for a few days until the truck came and picked them up.

http://www.fototime.com/{373C8590-8A...t/SN150723.JPG

They arrive in BNE 29th July. After parting out my old wings I figure these wings will have cost me 1/4...maybe even 1/5th, of the cost of restoring EZU's old wings - not to mention getting it done years earlier.

We have a bit to do to finish off the fuselage then it wiring/panel/interior/paint.

But soon I will have a complete Bonanza again - if not all in one piece at least all the pieces will be in perfect condition and complete in and of themselves.:ok:

Nice.......:ok::ok:

Wing's
 

Hey CC, show us some WIP on the rest of the airframe.
Impressed with the new wing's and cost outcome, sounds like a lot of co-ordinating done there. I think you were lucky to get the opportunity.

What is the plan with the panel, same as or upgrade ?

Chuck,
I'm impressed by your Bonza work. A nicely done up aircraft is sometimes better than a new one, and I'd say that'll be the case with yours by the sounds of it.

Maybe if I come and annoy Jaba again, I'll have to try and see this machine, :ok:.

Couple from recent times.

http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/o...s/c9b9638a.jpg

A holding pattern well known to a lot of us these days!

http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/o...s/47d21cac.jpg

morno

Morno:

Great photos! What brand of EFIS is this please?

Collins Proline 21 Dora

Dat would look really good in your jalopy too Dora :ok:

Have you the room with all that other glass?

Thanks indeed Morno.

Just dreaming along the lines of me, Doreen-9 and the two muttlies disembarking from a King Air, Jaba.....in my current ride I had enough troubles squeezing in an Aera 500! You're not missing anything here wearther-wise, btw.

Nothing much to report fuselage wise - it hasn't progressed in the last 2 years for a variety of reasons - mostly me being 3000nm away/work getting in the way and low priority from the engineers POV. I suspect that the wings arriving has re affirmed to them that I am serious about finishing this project so they're promising to get the fuselage progressing again.

Panel wise I am just gonna take the old one out, make it beautiful and put it back in again - with a Aspen EFIS.

Horizontal stab - both of those were finished years ago. Vertical too.

http://www.fototime.com/{ECC8211B-95...l%2520Stab.jpg

Fuselage is about 75% finished...and about 60% to go;)

All the riveting in this pic I actually did:ok:

http://www.fototime.com/{218E812A-30...t/PC310180.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/{C9589B1C-80...20fuselage.JPG

http://www.fototime.com/{6D82FD37-24...rd%2520002.jpg

Firewall fwd was finished ages ago and I put in extra cooling gills as well as replacing the 'sharks gill' type with louver type.

http://www.fototime.com/{7FE0F7B8-D7...ne%2520bay.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/{F25216F1-38...t/PC090181.jpg

This is (still) where we are up to fuselage wise - FWD STBD side and FWD belly to go, and the small skin between the windscreen and firewall, and the fuselage will be finished, structurally speaking.

http://www.fototime.com/{A52342A8-2C...20fuselage.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/{27A9C368-E4...t/P6020316.JPG

But the light at the end of the tunnel is more well defined and doesn't appear to be an oncoming train.:hmm:

Edit: skywagon1915 the wings were a HUGE win. Best guess was to do to my old wings what I have done with the fuselage would have been 50-60k. The new wings cost me 19.5k + shipping etc. If I can part out my old wings/flaps/ailerons/etc for 10k - and the spars are good so that should be doable - I will be streets ahead....not to mention the time factor. I woulda been 80 by the time we finished my old wings:{

Nice... I'd bet that it's going to be BETTER than brand new.:ok:

So, completion is imminent Grand Pa? :}

Get fcked - rude letter follows:ok:

My wings - as they came to rest in the farmers field.

http://www.fototime.com/{D14A17F2-6F.../570_plane.jpg

Gratuitous pic of golden child mk 2/Mini Me on Jaba's motor bike:ok:

http://www.fototime.com/{9DE6068F-BF...r%2520bike.jpg

Young Jacob looks so much like me at his age it gives his father the ****s:}

Well ya know Tailie I have always said the grandson would turn 21 before Grandpa got the Bo rebuilt. Now I'm thinking it might be done in time for his 18th! ;)

DF. (ducking for cover!)

Gee they wrote it off! underinsured is right!!

That brought back some memories! - I had to check my logbook, but yep, I too have had a flight in GIF ..... way back in the early eighties.

And he didn't want to get off either :ok:

And he didn't want to get off either http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...ies/thumbs.gif

.. that's a young larrikin if I've even seen one ..:D

He'll give his daddy some grey hairs when he gets to his teens ..

A good addendum to that comment just sprang into my mind JT but I 'aint going there!!:=

I have no wish to go onto Chucks permanent s**t list!:}:D Which is where you're gonna end up DF if you aren't careful.:D

Tee hee:E

Just as well he has other people's/company's aircraft to fly in the meantime....

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Be happy people, just think of the excitment that 5 cents a litre 'carbon tax' brings to a select few Australians...

http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=I4755439954886682&pid=1.1


For anybody who is interested, De flieger and me are havin a look-see at Gillards carbon dioxide hysteria over here - http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/4710...ml#post7305190









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There could be a career in ATC for the four citizens pictured!!!:E

Piper Cub anyone?

Courtesy of the EAA's live OSHKOSH 2012 webcam.

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http://members.iinet.net.au/~bc_j400/cubs.jpg

Is this a 47?

http://members.iinet.net.au/~bc_j400/47.jpg

Don't look too closely, you might see Jaba walking past!

Is this a 47?
 

Looks like a C46 Curtis Commando to me.

Looks like this one.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...17377330_n.jpg

Plenty more pics from Oshkosh at:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1688622&type=1

Doing it tough
 

No points for guessing where.

http://www.pbpphotography.com/photos...9-4bd1cf91.jpg

Luke

that's painfully beautiful ... :sad:

VH-WTY at Whitehaven.

Awesome shot :ok:

181 cubs at Oshkosh + two cents & worm in the F18's. 21 C195's in mint condition. More RV's than you could count. RV14 was there, that'll be winner!

Plus, a country in deep recession, not a pretty sight driving through cities with multiple business houses boarded up, with a GA industry still pumping.

Australian aviation when compared with this? Embarrassing..........