WACO CRG...I KNOW...MORE WACO CRAP

Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:00 pm

Here are some shots of our Waco CRG the way it looked when we bought it minus two wings.

Here it is after some apparent hail damage.

Then the REALLY big storm came and flipped it over still tied down

This is the condition it arrived at our airport in around 1960 minus two wing panels. We purchased it in 1964 after working on it for 2 years for another owner. Still own it today!

Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:43 pm

I'm okay with more Waco stuff, Andy.
Doug

Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:31 pm

Hey! Don't ever say WACO Crap (unless they start making knock offs in China!) :-)

Love seeing your posts - you keep going!

Enjoy the Day! Mark

Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:44 pm

What Mark said.

Thu Dec 25, 2008 1:16 am

Waco has so many different indentifications, I thought CRAP was a different model!

Thu Dec 25, 2008 1:59 am

Wow, looked great in the first picture, but headed down hill from there. Glad to see she was saved, considering how badly beat up she was. Keep on postin'.

Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:39 am

Actually, "crap" is a much milder version for the words you occasionally use when flying the Waco CRG. You need to use brakes on takeoff to keep it straight (as the turtledeck blanks out the rudder) so "crap" comes into effect.....then add a good stiff crosswind and you say it a little louder. Then the fact the single ailerons (the only open Waco to be this way) become less effective at slow speeds (ala on landing) so when a wing drops you need to go full aileron the other way and add power to raise the wing you generally say "crap" again. When flying cross-country and trying to read a map you cannot let go of the stick without the airplane turning one direction or the other and then climbing or diving, which causes you to say "crap". If you have not run it in a week or two and you go to pull the prop through on the 350hp Wright R70-E2 and it is hydraulic-locked and you have to pull the bottom plugs it makes you say "crap". But when the gods are smiling and its a clear sunny day with no wind and you push that throttle forward and feel the acceleration so much it pushes you into the seat and the airplane is at 2000ft before the end of a 2400ft strip then you get to say "holy crap"!

Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:52 am

350 horses in that thing! Holy Crap indeed!

Is that you hanging onto the prop?

Dave

Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:01 am

350HP sounds good on this machine! I remember how I could hear the CRG from INSIDE your cabin while INFLIGHT!

Evidently the CRG has a special crew of servicemen that help keep it clean!

Merry Christmas!

Thu Dec 25, 2008 6:36 pm

The airplane sounds just like a T-6 at takeoff power. Has a 108" Ham-Standard 2B20. Takeoff is around 36" of manifold pressure and yes....it goes up like a rocket. I feel confident in saying it will outclimb any model of Waco.

That's my nephew cleaning it at the Waco Fly-in! No idea who the boy is in the B/W photos...I was not even a gleam in my parents eyes when that photo was taken around 1952.

Dan is right about hearing it run. When my brother pulls along side me when I'm in the Cabin you can here that Wright just barking away...and my Cabin is not a quiet airplane either!