Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Plane Is In North Carolina

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  Yesterday Clay brought a large U-Haul truck to pick up the airplane.  His wife and son came along to help.  It took us about 5 hours to lo...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Sold The Project

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 I've sold the Cessna 140 project to a young fellow named Clay from North Carolina.  He's planning to bring a box truck to haul it h...
Friday, August 14, 2020

Selling The Cessna 140

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 I've decided to sell the Cessna 140.  It has taken much longer than I expected to get our Fly Baby back in the air.  Even now I've...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Work Stopped While I Get Our Fly Baby N4284C Back Flying

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Our Fly Baby will be 50 years old this summer.  We finished it in July of 1966 and because we could not get an FAA inspection done in time ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Priming the Fuselage

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I've decided to Alodine and prime the fuselage before doing more installation work.  For primer I'll use Poly Fiber White Epoxy Pri...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Repairs to Skin Panel P/N 0412116 (fig. 23-31)

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 The center skin on the top of the rear fuselage (fig. 23-31) had 2 wrinkles, one on each side, which hammered out nicely.  Rather than r...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Forming the New Skin Panel (fig. 23-32)

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For the stiffener flanges on the sides I thought I would make my own break.  It was a good idea but I could not make the bend well on a samp...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Making the New Shin Panel (fig.23-32 P/N 0412117)

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My computer died and one thing after another it's a year and a half later and I'm finally getting caught up on postings.  The fla...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Flattening Panel To Be A Pattern

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With the panel removed there are 4 nut plates which need to be removed.  They're riveted on with flush rivets so there is no tool to ...