[f-AA] annuals and love of flying(Tony)

[Al]

Hi Tony,

Thanks for the kind words, I just need to get something of my own back in the air...

The Altair project started about 10 years ago as just two guys talking. My partner on the plane had started one
about 20 years ago and abandoned it as he felt he was getting too old...
We got serious about the plane and bought airline tickets for Switzerland to see the only Orion on the planet which
just happens to be a converted Altair. This is the Swissair Orion and is also Jimmy Doolittle's Shell Lightening Orion.
We left about a week after they lifted the no fly ban after 911. I had seen this plane while stationed in Germany in the 
early 80's, it was hanging from the ceiling, it is on the gear now.

I spent the last couple of hours working on the wing jig table for the spars. It takes 2 full days to put the table together and 
3 to level it. 4' by 45' and is in 8 sections. I'm doing the wing and tail surfaces. The horz. stab has a 16' span...

I can send you some pictures if you'd like.

Al
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tony Buttacavoli 
  To: aeronca at westmont.edu 
  Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 4:51 AM
  Subject: Re: [f-AA] annuals and love of flying


  you sound like a good man to have in a hanger, and a true brother in the cockpit, a Lockheed Altair? details please !

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