Some Old Newspapers, Some Flour and Water For Paste

[Subdeacon Joe]

She'll be flying in no time!

 

 

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Needs a tuneup and oil change.

[Eyesa Horg]

Few rolls of MonoKote and a hair dryer and we'll be tryin her!

[Dawg Hair, SASS #29557]

A few rolls of duct tape maybe?  No big deal!

[Big Gus, SASS# 66666]

Always wanted one of those. 

[Pat Riot]

I thought we were talking old timey wallpaper when I saw the heading. 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

2 hours ago, Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 said:

A few rolls of duct tape maybe?  No big deal!

I admired those from the first time I saw one.

Getting OEM parts for it on the other hand???? 

[Subdeacon Joe]

2 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Few rolls of MonoKote and a hair dryer and we'll be tryin her!

 

Eeewwwe......fancy,  fancy!

 

[Eyesa Horg]

She ran pretty good after a little warm up. Wonder how long it had been sitting there. Interior looked decent!

[Sedalia Dave]

10 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

Getting OEM parts for it on the other hand???? 

 

There's a reason those things are still flying.  They are over engineered and seldom break.

[Dapper Dave]

That was incredible. Must have been a static display for years, and someone decided the old girl needed some love. Parts are available, apparently. Now...where to find some new wings. I really hope they get her airworthy - she needs to fly again, just listen to her hum.

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

On 12/2/2024 at 9:02 PM, Sedalia Dave said:

 

There's a reason those things are still flying.  They are over engineered and seldom break.

Some of them, the ones that didn’t are long gone.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I listened to an awful lot of reasons why I'll never go up in that bird.

 

There was one at Planes of Fame in Chino that sounded like a new plane, but THIS ONE sounds like death on a stick. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

On 12/2/2024 at 6:02 PM, Sedalia Dave said:

 

There's a reason those things are still flying.  They are over engineered and seldom break.

 

I think more like "under-engineered and over-built."   I heard one old gentleman years ago say that the Soviet stuff was "Strong, not pretty," made as simple an strong as possible so that a peasant fresh off the farm could work on it successfully after about 15 minutes of instruction.

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

An-2E (second use of the designation) – An Ekranoplan conversion (Russian: Ан-2Э) of an An-2P (RA-84692). The fuselage was retained and a large trapezoidal monoplane wing having extended wingtips with approx 45° dihedral, attached to the lower wing attachment points. The prototype conversion was intended to be a floatplane; however, its first public appearance was as a landplane with the standard An-2 undercarriage. Jointly developed by the Moscow Aviation Institute, MARZ (Moskovskiy Aviaremontnyy Zavod – Moscow Aircraft Overhaul Plant) and The TSZP-Saturn research institute the An-2E was also known as EA-00078. Power was supplied by the standard ASh-62IR radial engine with AV-2 propeller, but production versions were intended to be powered by automotive diesel engines of around 430 kilowatts (580 hp).

 

[Dapper Dave]

She looks like hammered garbage now, but give them some time. Maybe a miracle can happen.