Author Topic: Goofballs Limo (Read 297 times)

Hangtime · « **on:** July 20, 2002, 10:47:26 PM »

Scene: I'm gluing up a firewall.. a 5 min epoxy sluury all over this big chunk of ply i'm gonna stuff on the front of the plane, this massive fuselage (6 feet long) is lying on the couch. the coffee table I'm working on is covered with the derutius of a frenzied 6 hour building session.

I pick up the glued firewall, turn sideways to face the fuselage and pick it up... momma cat is sittin on the coffe table watchin everything I do with her usual slit eyed disapproval..

Suddenly the fuselage twists sideways.. a startled kitten explodes outta the cockpit, I drop the slurried firewall on the couch.

"GAWDAMMIT!!" I roar.. I lunge to catch the fuse.. I miss, it tumbles into the gap between the couch and the coffetable with a sickening crunch..

..meanwhile Fuzz explodes off the coffee table sending tools, sandpaper, wet exoxy, open acetone can and 32 ounce cup of lemonade onto the floor and fuselage..

I stand over the mess goin..."shit... not again!!" I decide it's open season on cats NOW. The critter hunt begins... room to room, under tables, behind toilets, around the coffee table again trackin the mess EVERYWHERE in the process.. I will not be denied vengance this time, no matter the cause. Somewhere in the back of my mind I note a sharp similarity between cat evasives and a 190's flick roll defense.

Damage.. one busted stab and vert fin fairing, a large slightly sticky odd smellin stain on the couch, a very sticky floor with a large section of hardwood missing it's lustorus shine, and two cats with flattened and i hope sore for a week asses. Not to mention pursuit collateral damage like the clean laundry, the fresh bedsheets, all my towels, two lamps, the stuff off the top of the bookcase and a couple of scratches that prolly won't scar too bad.

The 'Night of the Evil Cats' set me beack about a day and a half on completion.. not to be denied, I went to WarBirds Over Delaware last weekend with the covered airframe and finished it right there at the meet. Still need the resta the graphics on it, but it's fully airworthy, and the maiden flight ended well.

I'm considering gettin Goofball declawed and voulenterring it for a wing walking act. Without a parachute.

Fairchild M-62
Span 7.5 feet, 31 lbs, loaded.
Zenoah G-38, 18x8 prop.

XNachoX · « **Reply #1 on:** July 21, 2002, 03:19:20 AM »

Put one of them lil buggers inside of it and give him the ride of his life

Maverick · « **Reply #2 on:** July 21, 2002, 03:04:21 PM »

I believe a bombay may serve a useful function for the next offending feline miscreant.

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #3 on:** July 21, 2002, 05:00:27 PM »

Not on the boat anymore hangtime?

Hangtime · « **Reply #4 on:** July 21, 2002, 06:23:56 PM »

Yup, I still got the boat.. but I found that living on it was, well; cramped. And lil anemities like air-conditioning, a high speed internet connection, long hot showers, my waterbed and big screen TV were sorely missed.

So, I have a lil three room apartment on the top floor of an old house for a pittance of what housing around here usually costs. I can just see the top of my mast from my living room window. I store my planes in the kitchen, the catbox in the bathroom and I sleep in comfort instead of a sauna.

Why? Wanna go sailing?

Toad · « **Reply #5 on:** July 21, 2002, 06:40:47 PM »

Kewl, Hang.

I can send ya picture of my Dad's PT-26 in Canadian colors if you want to paint it like that.

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #6 on:** July 21, 2002, 06:44:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime
Yup, I still got the boat.. but I found that living on it was, well; cramped. And lil anemities like air-conditioning, a high speed internet connection, long hot showers, my waterbed and big screen TV were sorely missed.

Ya... I woulda missed the warm showers too. Shrinkage is still a tough one to explain to most chicks and animal.

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Why? Wanna go sailing?

LOL! Would love to go sailing. Is that an invite?

AKDejaVu

Hangtime · « **Reply #7 on:** July 21, 2002, 08:06:31 PM »

Yup.. that's an invite, Deja. Email me if you ever get a weekend free and yer in the neighborhood. Bring yer own women. Booze will be on me.

Toad, I've been doin some diggin.. seems that Fairchilds entry into the flyoff competition for the monoplane primary trainer was the M-62.. the prototype, built on Fairchilds nickel, had a full canopy with a tall razorback turtledeck at the back of it, and it had a small spinner. This plane got the intrest of the army, and they ordered two more for a flyoff competition. Of the actuall flyoff planes (there were two) one had a 'Vindicator' style full canopy (and looked just like mine) and the other had open cockpits. (M-62 and M-62A)

Both were silver, had the cocarde insignia on them as flown at Wright Field and interstingly, the open cockpit version won the contract, against 17 other contenders. The Blue and Yellow finishing scheme was in use by the army at that time on all it's primary trainers and the accepted open cockpit M-62A, designated PT-19, was ordered into mass production

Aside from the Prototype and the M-62, no other enclosed cockpit versions were produced prior to 1942.. at which point Fleet in Canada produced 'em, as PT-26;s for the USAAF (670 of em) with another 1067 of em staying in Canada for the RCAF as the Cornell. As an odd twist, the USAAF PT-26's were all silver, and aside from the stars and bars instead of cocardes and striped rudders they looked just like the canopied M-62 flown at Wright Field in the acceptance trials in 1939.

Saintaw · « **Reply #8 on:** July 22, 2002, 07:06:17 AM »

I can picture myself strapping my cat in that cockpit & hitting the "auto takeoff" key

Bonden · « **Reply #9 on:** July 22, 2002, 07:08:52 AM »

Nice model Hang

Funny cat story also.
I lived on boats for about six years - the latest being a Catalina 38. I too missed the A/C, the cable tv, the freezer and fridge and the hot showers - assuming you had water for a shower of course. Catalina 38's held very little water - 40 gallons I think.

My brother had a deep water dock where I was able to keep it for the last two years I owned it, with water and elec which made life tolerable - that and the fact that I was renting the house for good money during the summer

Since I cannot use the dock any longer, (brother sold the house), I sold the boat - miss it some but not the hassle and expense.

Bonden

straffo · « **Reply #10 on:** July 22, 2002, 07:08:54 AM »

MEOW ...

sadique va !

gofaster · « **Reply #11 on:** July 22, 2002, 03:55:50 PM »

Boats = work
Cats = trouble

Hangtime · « **Reply #12 on:** July 22, 2002, 09:16:07 PM »

LOL Gofaster! Now, just outta curiosity; where would women fit on that list?

Somethin had ta go... squeak.. planes... boat.... cats... AH....

Cya, squeak!

Bonden.. used to work fer the LI Catalina Dealer.. deliverd a couple of C36's some years back. Nice boats. Leaked like seives when yah laid a rail down, but still, very nice boats.

I got this 82 Irwin 34 last spring. Nicely laid out, all rigged aft to the cockpit, built to the IOR rule, quite nimble and superbly appointed. No slouch goin to weather, rock solid in a seaway.

70 gals fresh water, 35 diesel, all the amenities, gps and autohelm. A real sweety. I'll keep her as long as i'm breathing, I think, damn good seaboat. They don't build 'em like this anymore. Seems like everything these days is built to look like a gawdamned sneaker. Hershoff would puke if he saw a beanetau.