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Helping fabricate minor aluminum patches for the F86-D/L Sabre Dog at MAPS appears to be a manner in which I'll be spending some Saturdays.
More on "our" plane here.
At some point in its display life, numerous inspection panels had been lost from the aircraft. As a 'quick fix' by persons unknown, these panels were skinned-over with pop-rivetted sheet aluminium. Though this has undoubtedly stopped a great deal of nesting birds from making the aircraft their home, it does also mean that the MAPS crew has had to remove these patches and new panels are gradually being made for the aircraft.
Oy, yes! They also slapped patches over any sort of damaged areas, riveted shut any moving parts (speedbrakes!), etc, etc. And this is the easy one, heh. When it's done, we'll work on the Voodoo, or the Thud, or... We're getting an F-84 (it's been donated, just have to get the right confluence of crane, trucks, and weather to bring it in)... heh.
More on "our" plane here.
At some point in its display life, numerous inspection panels had been lost from the aircraft. As a 'quick fix' by persons unknown, these panels were skinned-over with pop-rivetted sheet aluminium. Though this has undoubtedly stopped a great deal of nesting birds from making the aircraft their home, it does also mean that the MAPS crew has had to remove these patches and new panels are gradually being made for the aircraft.
Oy, yes! They also slapped patches over any sort of damaged areas, riveted shut any moving parts (speedbrakes!), etc, etc. And this is the easy one, heh. When it's done, we'll work on the Voodoo, or the Thud, or... We're getting an F-84 (it's been donated, just have to get the right confluence of crane, trucks, and weather to bring it in)... heh.