Six years already - we still miss you, Gary.

Robbie Stuart · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2015 11:12 am

Gary never ceased to amaze me with his talent & knowledge when it came to aircraft maintenance & restoration. What a Master he was!
We miss you old Buddy!
Robbie

dred · **Joined:** Sat May 05, 2007 11:26 pm **Posts:** 154

CAPFlyer, thank you, that is now my desktop background.

I saw Gary at Oshkosh with Ol' 927, was going to introduce myself and tell him how much I enjoyed his WIX thread, but there were many people talking to him, and I had things I wanted to see, so I didn't.

Iclo · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2015 2:51 pm

The thread about the conversion of ol' 927 is definitely one of the best threads of this forum.

I did think to Gary very often and more when I did my first sheet metal work restoring a old car.

He is sorely missed here

camshaw · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2015 8:38 pm

a great guy..........

oz rb fan · **Joined:** Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:33 am **Posts:** 474

i was only thinking of him the other day....darn 6 years has gone fast.

i was chatting on facebook with the owner and pilot of IF1#79"no strings attached" about how proud how well they did at reno this year(it is the shoe string that Gary was building.

i never met him only exchanged a PM or two....but darn i miss him.

Paul

Ken · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:10 am

I see the RetroAviation sticker on my toolbox every time I'm in the hangar.

Ken

CAPFlyer · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2015 5:13 pm

dred wrote:

CAPFlyer, thank you, that is now my desktop background.

I saw Gary at Oshkosh with Ol' 927, was going to introduce myself and tell him how much I enjoyed his WIX thread, but there were many people talking to him, and I had things I wanted to see, so I didn't.

You're welcome. That image, in much higher resolution, was presented as a poster to Gary in 2008 at the Summer Staff Meeting on behalf of all of us here at WIX for his taking time out of his project to give us the wonderful thread of his work on 'Lil/927. I know he put it on the wall in his office, so it's probably out there somewhere. If anyone knows, it would be fitting if that poster/picture found its way to the new HQ. I think it'd be something nice as a remembrance of him in the Dir. of Maintenance's office or something like that.

phil65 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2015 5:15 pm

Ken wrote:

I see the RetroAviation sticker on my toolbox every time I'm in the hangar.

Ken

Got the same sticker on my locker, here at Pratt....

Phil

Pogo · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:43 pm

Gary introduced me to WIX personally, word of mouth. Talk about a "gift that keeps on giving" (Thank you Scott!!). Whenever I see pics of ol' 927, first thing I look for is Kilroy. Now that is Gary Austin in a word to me.

How many of y'all know what I mean? Quick, somebody produce a picture of Kilroy!

Fouga23 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 29, 2015 5:04 am

Pogo wrote:

Quick, somebody produce a picture of Kilroy!

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/ ... B24Banking

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