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An inside view of WACO Classic (Read 437 times)

Jun 18^th, 2012 at 6:14pm

wahubna Offline
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Before my day started I snagged a picture of my office view. The green and white plane is a vintage WACO QCF. She was a restoration project for WACO Classic's restoration and aircraft sale side called Centennial.
video of engine run up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r0SLKRxaqQ
Unfortunately her future is not looking to good. She has not flown in a long time and it does not look like she will for many more years. So she is our resident "Hanger Queen". Sad, that thing is cute as a button!

The red and cream WACO is a YMF-5C that suffered a 'small' ground loop. Her lower left wing tip got scrapped up a bit and is getting repaired. Hence why the lower left wing is curiously missing.

The big beautiful red, black, and gold WACO in front is a recent arrival for maintenance work and potential sale. My lands she is absolutely stunning!

Back behind all the planes on the left side is the welding area with a few WACO and Great Lakes frames being worked on....look closely and you might see Daisy, our resident bird eating dog! (gotta prevent bird strikes some how Wink

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‎"At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation."- Igor Sikorsky

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Reply #1 - Jun 18^th, 2012 at 6:57pm

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Thanks for the pictures and the Link Adam...well done... Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #2 - Jun 18^th, 2012 at 8:19pm

Steve M Offline
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Very cool, More please!

Flying with twins is a lot of fun..

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Reply #3 - Jun 18^th, 2012 at 8:36pm

wahubna Offline
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Steve M wrote on Jun 18^th, 2012 at 8:19pm:

Very cool, More please!

WACO YMF-5C serial # 130 is due to fly very very soon. I dont know if I will have my wife's camera on hand, but I should be able to snag some pictures from my boss. Soon I will take a picture of the OTHER side Wink

The other side being the primary assembly and fabrication hanger.

‎"At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation."- Igor Sikorsky

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Reply #4 - Jun 18^th, 2012 at 9:02pm