Bill gymnast and the whole gang at Repeat Aircraft.Bill gymnast and the whole gang at Repeat Aircraft, Flabob Airport, California, have complet the LTR-14 racer replica and are awaiting the first experiment flight (which will probably have taken place by means of the time this appears in print). Dave Morss will be doing the touchstone piloting and the current plan involves the first flight to journey directly to nearby Chino Airport where 25 hours of air testing will take place (the original plan was to barter the racer to Chino). Bill, an ex-WWII PBY pilot, has been taxiing the aircraft at Flabob and he noteed "everytime I taxi the LTR we find something otherwise to repair or change!" The aircraft has taken longer to build than the gang expected but the LTR-14 is a composite machine. As can be seen the plane is finished in the markings it wore during the 1939 National Air Races. "Luckily, we set up the person who had the original registration number. He was planning to use it for a half-size homebuilt version of the racer however he graciously gave the number to our project" Realizing the LTR-14 will pretty soon be out of the hangar, Bill is busily working forward his next project - a full-size Caudron C460 "I really like it compared to the LTR-14 since it is all-wood and a heck of a portion easier to build," said Bill. Copyright Challenge Publications Inc. May 2002 |
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