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After we crossed the parking pad and re-entered the hangars, we found a pair of Willys jeeps that did their whole working careers at Naval Air Station North Island. One painted gray, one green. These are used mostly for pulling aircraft in parades.

 

Here is a 1929 Boeing FB5 being completely recreated.

 

That's a V12 Packard producing 520 horsepower.

 

Imagine landing this on a carrier?

 

Very artistic assembly instructions on this one - one set of volunteers communicating to the next team ...

 

A little more fabric, a heat gun, and these sticks will soon be wings on a plane that someone is going to fly. OMG are you kidding me? No, not kidding.

 

Goodies in this corner for reference or to keep existing planes going. Most don't fly - for insurance reasons - even though they are airworthy.

 

They have plenty of engines, most of which could be running if they weren't cutaway for display.

 

 

 

 

Early Navy trainer takes off at 90 mph, maneuvers at 90, lands at 90. Not enough power to go faster and if you go slower it crashes. Bad news. Very few are left.

 

This is NOT a Blue Angels aircraft. It's a homebuilt with decals.

 

This is a nicely painted homebuilt. You can look up any of these planes that have numbers (just enter "N85KK tail number" and search)

 


 

Wilson Adams crashed his motorcycle and ended up in hospital for a long time, in traction. His wife came by and said "Find a new hobby".

 

So he took the 650 out of the wrecked Triumph and built a helicopter instead.

So he started building and selling, instead of flying. You can get a sales brochure here on eBay, today. And you can get a kit of parts to build your own, here. 

It's been nice knowing you...

 

Fly, baby, fly!

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