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Greetings,
Siphoned 20 gallons of fuel
from the plane yesterday, and managed to get my hanger doors back in their
tracks. Another guy came along, and suggested that we re-hang the fallen
panel from the wall, and reattach the blown in section of wall. It's all
kinda ugly, but the hanger is at least closed up again, with functional
doors. We put the doors back on a friend's hanger, and checked out a
couple other planes for people. It's amazing how some escaped damage even
with the hanger falling in around them.
An interesting note about
my fallen hanger wall pane. The walls are made up of 4' wide, by 12' high
sheet metal panels. There's a horizontal support at the bottom, top,
and center of the panel. When they installed the sheet metal
panel originally, they missed the center support structure with the
screws. We found marks on the panel that were in the correct place, but
they somehow installed the screws about 2 inches too low. This allowed the
panel to bow out in the middle, and rip out the other screws. Gotta
wonder how much of the other hanger damage was due to carelessness like
this.
It's still amazing to me
that all the planes tied up outside were free from damage, but the
ones in the hanger were often destroyed. When the insurance guys ask
if your plane is hangered, I always assumed you got a better rate if it
was. Hmmmm, maybe not :-)
I've got phone, though DSL
is now out again (dialup sucks). No power yet, but I could swear
I saw some street lights through the trees last night, so perhaps power
isn't too far away. Still could be
worse.
Rusty (compiling parts list
for RV-3 repairs)
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