A place where restoration project-type threads can go to avoid falling off the main page in the WIX hangar. Feel free to start threads on Restoration projects and/or warbird maintenance here. Named in memoriam for Gary Austin, a good friend of the site and known as RetroAviation here. He will be sorely missed.
Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:59 am
Indeed, great great news!
Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:06 am
Oh, good job!!!!
Congrats to you & all who worked on her!!!
(PS: I'm a bit surprised that Col. Mosquito was not there to accept the award, given his attentive supervision of the project!)
Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:07 am
Awesume news!
Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:35 am
That is great news! The plane looks awsome! It was also great to meet you. Congrats!
Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:40 pm
Hey Gary, great news. Makes me proud. Also I just got the dispatch, LOVE the aim high pose! See you next trip, James
Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:48 pm
retroaviation wrote:I reckon the news that Alan Brooks is wanting me to share with y'all is that Ol' 927 was given the Judges' Choice, Bomber Award.
Very well deserved by you and your crew, congratulations!
Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:01 pm
They even had a good turnout for Gary's talk on Thursday even though it continued to rain lightly. Here's the best photo I could get through a piece of weathered and rain-streaked plexiglass.
Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:24 pm

Congratulations to all the 'Ol 927' restoration crew !
Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:12 pm
congratulations gary!!!!!!! outstanding.................cant wait to see her out at the shows...............well deserved. Those old CAF guys should be proud!!!!!! She is no cargo bird anymore!
Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:22 am
Well done Gary!
She looks fantastic! But I'm assuming there’s still a load of work to do. But the question is, will you be the one doing it? And if not, well then the next guy who does, better get a WIX account and report to us A.S.A.P.!
Can’t wait to see the installation of the bomb bay!
I know, a long way off, but great work none the less!
I'd exchange Tan or Camo any day!
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Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:25 pm
Gary, your pic in the Dispatch is so great! I am so glad to see that you can revel in the glory of what you have accomplished. You have done a tremendous service to the warbird community and especially the CAF!! I have said before and will say again, please stay the course. We want to get FIFI back in the air and you can be the one who does it. I will personally commit my help as I am able.
Dave
Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:20 am
Just in case y'all hadn't seen it........
Gary
Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:32 am
Awsome!
Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:35 pm
Great Job Mr. Austin!!!!!
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