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Mon Aug 03, 2009 6:32 pm

Gary,
There were provisions to hoist weapons on the wing pylons outboard the engines. There were also work stands and a small propeller crane that attach on the nacelle and on the wing. I might be able to find something in the manuals.

Mon Aug 03, 2009 6:45 pm

Yeah, I've seen the positions for the work stands by the nacelles, but the ones I was wondering about were outboard of the nacelles, and are right above the weapons attach points.

Gary

Mon Aug 03, 2009 7:07 pm

if you look, I bet they would go all the way thru the wing for bomb loading cables. I looked in my PBY manuals and could not find any drawings.

Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:28 pm

I think you're right Matt.

Gary

Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:38 pm

why is it that no matter what gary does, its just pure entertainment!!! I love it and it has a sweet tune to go with it!! :) :D

Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:01 pm

N3Njeff wrote:why is it that no matter what gary does, its just pure entertainment!!!



I reckon some folks just enjoy the antics of a silly little fat fella. :lol:
http://listverse.com/2008/06/23/top-10- ... rtainment/

Gary

Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:39 pm

Well, since you never know just when one of those Google Maps satelites will swing by to take a picture, I thought I better go ahead and brand this thing................

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;-) Gary

Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:46 pm

Gary ... I LOVE the boot prints... that is just class!!! Awesome! :D :D :D

Cheers,
Richard

Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:02 pm

So if we go for the funniest 11 fat guys, who will be on the list............you or me Gary?

Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:21 pm

Richard...well, I must admit those boot prints weren't intentional. That roof sealer stuff seems to stay stickier than I thought it would. :lol:

Ober...I doubt that I'd even be in the runnin' for the top 100, much less the #11 position, so you should take that honor. ;-)

Gary

Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:08 pm

Thumbs up Gary. Every day I get up and look at the airplane, which is on my wall in my living room. I inherited from my uncle a huge blown up picture of the airplane at Sunset in Texas 1980 awaiting an engine change (same airport the airraces of 1990 were held), on the way to Australia. Ah what adventures those wings have had! It's interesting to see all the nav attennas on it too for the trip.

Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:45 pm

Gary, I bet you had to walk carefully on that thing. Anybody who's seen it up close knows how ROTTEN it really is. The holes for ordinance, etc. that you and Matt were discussing are probably full of goobage from down south so you couldn't see all the way through.

Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:43 pm

Now that's funny!

I think keyhole needs to make another pass.

Thanks for the laugh Gary! I needed it today.

Sat Aug 08, 2009 3:11 pm

Been tinkering with the Stratolina a little bit today, and thought that it would be a good idea to anchor the wing struts a little better, before the next rain comes in (in October, I'm sure :roll: ). If you recall, when I was setting this thing up originally, the rain came and softened the ground that was supporting the wings. Well, the struts sank, while the floats....well...floated, and the wing tried to disassemble itself. Since then, I had made a better setup for the struts to rest on, but the front ones (where most of the weight of the wings is) still kept making me nervous. Remember, the front struts were the ones that had the bottom ends cut off. That means the open ends have no trouble just tunneling their way into the soft West Texas sandy dirt.

So today, I decided to make some concrete anchors to house those front struts. As mentioned before, I'm no handy man around the house, so making a simple wood box and pouring concrete into it was a bit of a challenge to me. I made the first one and it looked great, until I pulled the wood off from around it. I didn't realize you should probably wait a day or two before doing this, and the result of removing the wood too soon, is that the sides tend to fall apart. Here's the first one........

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I have just finished the second one, but I'm leaving the wood on for a while. (And NO....Jimmy Hoffa isn't buried in there! :lol: )

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Even if these blocks wouldn't be strong enough to be used on a city street, they oughta be strong enough to help support this wing. I mean, if nothing else, they're cheap insurance.

So now that I've cooled off a bit in the house here, I reckon I'm gonna go back out and tinker with the ol' Stratolina a bit more. I think I'll go play in the cockpit for a while. :-)

Gary

Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:35 pm

Yeah, yeah...I know........I'm about the only one that's still interested in this yard art, but it still has the ability to make me smile, even on bad days, so y'all bear with me. :-)

I'm not sure what amazed me more this evening.....the rain that came through Midland (for a whole 15 minutes :roll: ), or the fact that Mother Nature even showed her approval for the Stratolina by having a rainbow come out of the top of the fuselage. Unfortunately, the only Leprechan lookin' fella was me (albeit a fat Leprechan), and no.....there was no gold at the end of the rainbow. :cry:

So here's what I did for excitement on my Friday night here in Midland. I took artsy-fartsy pictures of a rare rainbow, poking out of an even more rare Stratolina..............

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Gary
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