Bought a Fairchild 24

[JDK]

Uh, oh, Kiwi in Canada... I'll check it out for you, when I'm at Hamilton in June, DH. No charge...

[Dragonflydh90]

Need to say hello to the Fox Moth, its been a while.

[Dave Hadfield]

Ryan, sure, if you travel from NZ, we'll get you into some seat or other!

As for Marco, yes, he was there and very helpful. He contributed from the point of view of an ex-Snowbird, plus he's bought a Harvard. As for how he behaved... well, at the airport he was exemplary, but I'm sure all those rumours of mayhem and havoc in downtown Ottawa on the Saturday night had nothing to do with Formation Camp pilots at all...

The Fox Moth has been sold, but to one of our pilots, so it will stay in the Ottawa area. Right now it's on static display in the Ottawa International airport.

Dave

[AIRIC]

Here is a shot of Marco behaving. He is #3.


I had the pleasure of shooting Dave flying the Fox a few years ago. Wonderful aircraft to see in the air


More photos of the FoxMoth here
http://www.airic.ca/html/vwocfoxmoth.html

Cheers,

Eric

[Dragonflydh90]

Very nice shots Eric, the Fox is very photogenic isnt she.

[JDK]

I'm a bit worried that it seems to be being used for prisoner transport - hands on the bars in the window?

[Dave Hadfield]

That photo was taken on the way back to Geneseo after a day-trip to Elmira. Robin had abandoned me for a ride in an open-cockpit biplane that had 2 joysticks (...sigh...), and a photographer had taken the seat. I believe he was trying to slide the windows out of the way so he could take pictures of the other planes. I was swarmed by airborne cameras that day because it was their first chance to photograph a Fox Moth in North America for many years. (I felt like a B-17 at Schweinfurt -- by the time I landed I had a sore neck.)

Recently I took the Fairchild to Watt Martin's strip near Orangeville, Ontario, to lend a hand erecting the wings on the ECAF Tiger Moth. The setting was about as rural as you could get.



And there she stood, C-GSTP, the only A-model Tiger Moth still operating with a tailskid and no brakes in Canada.



She's had a major repair and engine overhaul after last year's engine failure (an intake valve seat crept out and jammed the valve just after takeoff, causing a total engine cutout, and the only field ahead grew 7ft-tall corn).

We had four bodies on hand, plus Watt's eminence to confirm who-goes-where-when, and got right to work. Here we are holding the right top wing up while hanging the struts. (The man on the red ladder is Stan V, the man who repaired and recovered and painted the airplane over the winter, and who is also my engineer for the Fairchild.)

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[Dave Hadfield]

I didn't take too many pictures because most of the time I was holding the corner of a wing up, but here we've got one side assembled and are getting a landing wire in place to hold it up. The lady with her back to the camera is Sheila, Stan's wife, and a steady worker in the shop -- her hands have been on nearly every component of that airplane.



Ta-Dah!!!

[Dave Hadfield]

Hey, it looks like an airplane again! (It took a very busy winter to make that happen...)





And as the day went by more and more helpers showed up. Some of them are very clever with puns...



And there were a lot of distractions...



But with Watt's guidance and Stan's energy, we assembled the thing without a scratch, and a rare and beautiful time-capsule of an airplane might fly this weekend.



Dave

[Dragonflydh90]

Love the 82a, very nice Tiger in bog standard setup, just how I like them with no brakes and a skid. That Gipsy is very, very nice also.

Is that a Fahlin prop on the Tiger? also interesting place for the DH decal on the interplane strut, never seen them there before.

Love the DH82'EH', one of the funniest things I've seen for ages. Could well go over the heads of most....

[JDK]

That photo was taken on the way back to Geneseo after a day-trip to Elmira. Robin had abandoned me for a ride in an open-cockpit biplane that had 2 joysticks (...sigh...), and a photographer had taken the seat. I believe he was trying to slide the windows out of the way so he could take pictures of the other planes.

Yes, sure. We believe you. It's clear, in fact, you just don't want to be recognised as a the first vintage extraordinary rendition pilot (or is that a pilot of a vintage extraordinary rendition aircraft?). Evidence? The very obvious replacement 'registration' markings in quite the wrong typeface for the era. Come clean!

Hey, it looks like an airplane again!

Oo, you hurt its feelings! As it's not in Canuckian colo(u)rs, it's a crate, a kite or an aeroplane, but not that pneumatic-actuated-woodshaving tool you called it...

Regards,

You can collect your being insulted fee at Hamilton. See you there, if you don't see me first...

[AIRIC]

That is Gilles Aulllirad trying to escape from the Fox.

I'm a bit worried that it seems to be being used for prisoner transport - hands on the bars in the window?

[AIRIC]

I have not been to Watt’s strip. One of these days. Can’t wait to see the Moth in it’s new markings.

[SPANNERmkV]

Just came searching this part of the forum for the first time and now I see what all I have been missing.

Nice Fairchild 24 and lovely Dehavilland... of heck - they are BOTH to die for!

SPANNER the Texan with the Fleet built PT-26

[SPANNERmkV]

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