Ski Flyin

[flybikefarm]

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Well you see it's like this. Had two gal. of paint left from the cub project, to cheap to not use it. Going to paint the engine cowl and bottom of the fuselage cub yellow kind of following the curve of the windsheild. The rest will be white, with maybe yellow scallups on the leading edge of the wing. Don't know what I'l do on the tail. All of rest controls are ready to cover. One wing needs a little work. May forego going to Mardi Gras to finish the plane.

[flybikefarm]

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Something like this.

[Taylor Maid]

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I like the paintjob! It looks like you have a great time in Pardi Gras...that is some dedication to skip Mardi Gras and work on your Taylorcraft. Also....just how did you earn ALL of those beads??? Hmmmm????? I've seen what goes on in that place!

[flybikefarm]

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I have a slide show of about 600 pictures on my laptop. Makes for interesting conversation. I go to New Orleans three or four times a year. Love the cooking and southern belles, I mean hospitality. Went to st. Louis, Memphis, Nashville between Christmas and New Years. With all the fans there for the bowl games it was almost like New Orleans.

[Taylor Maid]

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Hey George,

I've been to New Orleans a few times myself...never during Mardi Gras...but it is always a good time! Lots of great music and food. Before you ask, no, I haven't earned any beads down there.

Now on to the thread at hand...it looks like the skiplane flyin for me is going to be a bust. I have to report to work at 4am on Sunday and even driving isn't going to be the smartest thing for me to do. If the roads are good, I'll get home around 10 at night with staying at the flyin until noon. An hour and a half there will just be a tease and I won't want to go home. I guess I will just have to plan for next year...Dang work getting in the way of fun again. Let me know what I miss...

On a side note, I will have enough snow here to put the skiis on and play locally.

See ya at Sun N Fun!

--Suzy

[crispy critter]

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I've been to Mardi Gras a few times...I know what they do to get the boobs....I mean beeds,lol. I think one of those trips may have helped lead to the end of my second marrige,which was a good thing.....she didn't get any beeds. My current wife went down there with me once and we had to leave her beeds behind because we couldn't fit them all in the airplane,hahahahaha. Needless to say my current(3rd) wife is a real keeper and she likes to fly too.

[Taylor Maid]

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Critter...sounds like you have a good woman! Congrats! Try to keep this one around!

So George...how was the flyin? Work had decided that they had a better use of my time last weekend...and this weekend. This work stuff is really getting in the way of fun. I need a sugar daddy who can do my annuals!

We've had some snow here and I have been flying and landing in various places without skiis on. The snowmobiles have the snow all nice and packed down. Attached is a picture I took out in front of my house on the Saginaw Bay.

Take care,

Suzy

[flybikefarm]

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Sorry to say I didn't make the flyin either. The weather here was crappy, so I couldn't fly. It's only three hours by car but didn't feel like driving. So I moved the t-craft to my buddy's paint booth and have been working on it. Got all the tapes on and one spray coat of poly brush. Had a few pin holes to fix today will spray another cross coat tomorrow. Been working on small parts in between times and making the right hand brake pedal attach parts.
To bad I'm so happily married. I could use a good woman that can fish and cook (lol). I guess I'm going to New Orleans after all, my freind got me a room right on Canal street for Sat. until Wed.. To good of a deal to pass. Going down there with a freind in his new RV7A. Should be a quick trip at 200 mph. If you ever fly in to Louis Armstrong feild park at Atlantic aviation and tell Brenda or Tracy your a freind of mine. They will treat you good. It's a loving wife that lets a guy behave like this. Wife on left. George

[Larry Lyons]

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Flybike, I like that paint scheam. For me it would be red with a sunburst on the wing and tail like Taylor Maid's. I saved the pic for future use. Larry