GML Pics

Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:40 pm

JDK wrote:And having had Kermit Weeks (very nicely) ask me not to touch 'Ina' because of the fingerprints - who's got the work?

Oh, so the fact that human oils corrode and stain most paints doesn't have anything to do with trying to maintain a complete finish on the aircraft?

Sorry, but the reason they ask you not to touch the paint due to fingerprints is true. Try looking at a plane that's had hands all over it and see where the paint is much more worn where the hands have been than where they haven't. It's mostly due to the oils on them than anything else. It's true of flat and gloss finishes, that's why it's not advisable to touch ANY paint with an unprotected hand.

I frankly don't blame them. When you're dishing out $60K for a paint job (or more), I think it's perfectly reasonable to protect that investment.

Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:43 pm

The biggest reason Kermit said that is not because of the paint....It's because there is no paint to speak of except the trim. Ina is polished metal and anyone that has ever spent time polishing out aluminum can tell you that it starts oxidizing fast from fingerprints anf water spots. The only thing I polish on my plane is the spinner but it takes about 30 minutes a month. I'd hate to think what Ina takes to keep her looking as good as she does.

Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:21 pm

Sorry, I wasn't clear on my first sentence. It was meant to convey two separate items - they corrode (i.e. metals) and they stain (i.e. paints).

Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:31 pm

Yes, but they're flyable aeroplanes, not priceless Renaissance paintings.

They fly through the air at several hundred miles an hour, sometimes through rain, have hot, noxious exhaust gasses pass over the skin, fuel, oil, hydraulic fluid and coolant spilled on them, people walking on them and dust blown onto them on airport ramps.

I found this notice, stuck all over 'Quick Silver' at GML, to be a very refreshing change.........

Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:58 pm

Well its like that on QUICKSILVER because the owner is a REALLY nice guy. Bill was letting everyone who wanted to sit in QUICKSILVER.

Super darn nice of him. He did it at OSH too.

Mark H

Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:54 pm

FG1D Pilot wrote:
Mike wrote:Why go to all the trouble of restoring the aircraft down to the last stencil, decal and 50 cal bullet link, only to lose the whole 'look' of the 1944-45 period by shining the thing up like a Learjet?

Because it stays that way forever. It's much easier to maintain. Flat paint basically has talcum powder in it. It soaks up everything and has to be repainted every year, at least, due to fading. You can't really get a good paint job unless you take it completly apart and strip it. An annual inspection could take 6 months to get it looking right again.
As a Korean painter once told me. "That ugry. Rich man no like ugry."

How come no pictures of the "Shiney" C47?

Doug, Next Tuesday :wink:

Lynn

Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:26 pm

I hope I'll be that nice when I own my Warbirds! You know they say these machines go to your head if your not careful!

Flying high, but staying down to earth. Thats the real trick!

Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:28 pm

Here's one of mine...I meant to post it, but it's on the browser I linked to.

Website · Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:36 pm

[quote="JimH"]More!!

So,
If I actually went into the hangar at BVY last sunday I would have known who the guy I was standing next to when we took this picture!
When I stopped by Beverly last weekend, you were filling out ride stickers just before sending them all out on Sunday evening. It was busy.
I also walked over when Kermit arrived, and hung around to see Ina in the photo spot. She looked good in there didnt she!

Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:10 am

It was said each plane spent 20 minutes in the photo spot....will those photos be published anywhere? Who shot them while they were positioned?

Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:01 am

Thanks for all the feedback! Its funny I was supposed to meet a few people there and didn't see one of them...the ones I did meet I had no idea were going. Dan Patterson had the "studio" in the hangar...I hung out there quite a bit...great spot for photos. Gonna take weeks to go through all these photos. My only regret was not buying a grandstand seat but it was a great time.

Jim Harley

Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:42 pm

slinky wrote:It was said each plane spent 20 minutes in the photo spot....will those photos be published anywhere? Who shot them while they were positioned?

as Jim said - the photographer was Dan Patterson. He does plan to publish, but says to look for it in about a year... must sort thru and select the photos, then add text, arranging, editing, etc.

Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:54 am

I've tried to pick up the discussion on the shiny Mustangs and take it to a new thread here:

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=16239

Hopefully that allows two different discussions to continue!

Cheers,

Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:09 am

JimH wrote:Thanks for all the feedback! Its funny I was supposed to meet a few people there and didn't see one of them...the ones I did meet I had no idea were going. Dan Patterson had the "studio" in the hangar...I hung out there quite a bit...great spot for photos. Gonna take weeks to go through all these photos. My only regret was not buying a grandstand seat but it was a great time.

Jim Harley

Wished I had run in to you as I could have gotten you in the Legend tent on Sunday...

Lynn