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Have a friend that has a Super Pinto....neat little jet.

Have you dropped a note to any of the current DH84 owners with this query?

Also happens when both the customer and the producer get complacent..... 🤬

Just to note, the improper firings and harassment was by management, of union employees. Fortunately, the corporate lawyers were smart and quite sensitive to the optics if any of these suits went to trail.

Couple of contracts ago, there was a management faction that thought they were going to run over the union, bust it and be big heros to corporate management. When the smoke cleared a few months after the strike, corporate cleaned house of everyone in the faction and those that sucked up to them...

One can also click on their user name at the top right of the page and then select "Your Content" and it show your last several posts on that page, and if you to go to the bottom left and can then page back a large number of pages.

Maybe the site will take a zip file?

Big stuff, it was just a paint line outlining where one could walk. On smaller stuff, it was a non-slip coating for ease into the cockpit entry.

433rd from San Antonio?

In the E model catalog, go to Standard Parts and on the first page.... The barrel is an AN155 and the forks are AN161's. The only place that indicates a usage of AN161's is for one aileron control cable. As there are a number of cables within that system, but only one of that set, I suspect that...

77-47002 is the p/n for the oil tank for the AT-6A thru AT-6D, SNJ-3, SNJ-4 and certain s/n SNJ-5's....Part of the 77-47001 Oil System Installation. The Type/Version block on the print is pretty smeared and very difficult to read.

Dickie Betts of the Allman Brothers passed away this morning.

It's a turnbuckle with a pair of pin forks.

We had a shop on the airport that mainly dealt with Cobras, originals and not replicas. Wasn't unusual for a paint job to be in the 30-50K$ range. Easy to do when you have 6-700 manhours into the prep, paint and finish out work.

Figured it out....The photo you have is a C model, with part of the cowling off of 44-15459, which was American Beauty. There is a media photo of 44-15459 that attributes the pilot at the time of the photo was Voll. The American Air Museum in Britain, under the listing for Voll, states that he...