Is the Cobra going on a stick or will it be able to fly?
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Random Griz Aviation Musings
- Thread starter Griz882
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It will sit on the floor of the CAF museum in Mesa, AZ. For that reason this aircraft is worthy of open cockpit close inspection. Very nice. Cockpit instrument panels look like new. This is no stick candidate. Will also have TOW launcher and rocket pods mounted.
We acquired it from the Forest Service where its last days were in fire lead attack. It was airworthy but the Forest Service would not release it unless we promised not to fly it. We took the deal. Have taken valuable airworthy parts off it for our flying Cobra and replaced them with timed out or otherwise non-airworthy parts. We did leave some useful parts on the aircraft since they were more easily safely stored on the aircraft. If we need them we roll it out of the museum and simply yank them off. The ultimate hangar queen.
Do you guys still maintain a logbook for it, even if the parts aren't airworthy? Seems like that would still be a thing for tracking, if nothing else. Obviously airworthy parts aren't going to be yellow-tagged if they're attached to the airframe.
Not a log book. They are not energized, hydraulically pressured, or operated in any way. We have all the logs from the Army and Forest Service and they are in stasis from that point on in terms of hours. Where calendar dates are important, we have that from the previous logs. We keep an inventory of the parts to include where stored and when removed, which is, of course, on the tag as well.
Hot times!
What was the ride like? I hate turbulence in light GA aircraft.
Hotter times if hookers are part of the equation.
Hottest times if the hookers are good looking…and free.
In my last airplane turbulence meant having your head bounce off the canopy quite a lot. Hated it as well.
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I know you meant to say HELNONMONKSPANKRON.
I did…but I was at least a cup low on java when that was written.
