Page 8 - August 2019

Hurricane

We conducted our quarterly inspection of the Hurricane
on March 29 in the company of Gordon M. Hill, the last
surviving wartime pilot of this airplane. More on this
under the 'EVENTS' heading below.

We are again indebted to our friends in Ontario, Brian
Davis and Darrell Brown for their willingness to
contribute parts from their Hurricane projects, after we
fielded some '911' calls from Historic Aviation about
recently discovered holes in some of the airplane
systems. From Brian we acquired an oil pipe, complete
with end fittings, of a type that are not available in North
America. Darrell came to the rescue with a landing light
Port side of the rear fuselage with new balsa core, as we were short by half a pair. The willingness and
but no new skins yet.
generosity of these gentlemen cannot be overstated.
Our thanks to both.

Green is good and there was none of it inside the
rear fuselage a year ago. New green paint means
that all structural repairs have been completed in an
area and we can begin to install parts and systems.
Not ready yet, last year at this time.

Now keep reading to see where things are at today
.

Oil line and fittings, upper, courtesy of Brian Davis and
landing light, lower, from Darrell Brown.