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PostPosted: Sun Jun 25, 2017 2:59 pm 
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Is any work currently taking place on these 2 airframes??

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 25, 2017 4:56 pm 
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Kermit is active on Facebook and is pretty good on answering questions.

https://www.facebook.com/KermitWeeks/

Must have a Facebook account to send him a message on there.


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 2:43 pm 
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No, there isnt. Here are the last photos I have of the two airframes from April 2014

https://floridawarbirds.wordpress.com/2015/05/17/fantasy-of-flight-golden-hill-aircraft/

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What's behind the Hellcat - a Lysander?

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Poor ol' 38. 44-26761 looks to be in the same shape as when Dick Lambert had it up in Plainfield IL back in '81 and I got to sit in the cockpit :D .
IIRC, isn't the booms being cut off what has kept the restoration stalled for all these years?

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:48 am 
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KiwiZac wrote:
What's behind the Hellcat - a Lysander?


Yes

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Chris Brame wrote:
IIRC, isn't the booms being cut off what has kept the restoration stalled for all these years?


I think it is money and what Kermit has prioritized to have restored.


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Boy, that Lysander has one heck of a side-view mirror!


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