lowflybye wrote:

wardamneagle wrote:Went back today. They cleaned it up really quickly and everything went really smoothly today. Blue Angels did their first flight, F22 did its demo + a flyby in formation with a P51, and the night show was fun as always.

Talked to the guy at the Aviat tent. He said that they lost a total of 6 aircraft Thursday.

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Didn't you live in Murfreesboro just a short time ago? Are you the fellow that brought the yellow Supercub to our warbird event or am I getting you confused with someone else?

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Ridge Runner wrote:Great video footage, but really sad to see all the damage. So many planes, so much hard work, investment and time and money and aspirations. I hope nobody got hurt, and that those with the damaged planes can recover from this.

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lowflybye wrote:

wardamneagle wrote:Went back today. They cleaned it up really quickly and everything went really smoothly today. Blue Angels did their first flight, F22 did its demo + a flyby in formation with a P51, and the night show was fun as always.

Talked to the guy at the Aviat tent. He said that they lost a total of 6 aircraft Thursday.

***THREAD HIJACK***

Didn't you live in Murfreesboro just a short time ago? Are you the fellow that brought the yellow Supercub to our warbird event or am I getting you confused with someone else?

***HIJACK OVER*** we now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

Yeah I did live in Murfreesboro and fly the yellow Supercub to the warbird fly-in. I have since graduated school and recently moved to Lakeland, FL.

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I like the way you did this. Good idea.

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RobBurson wrote:***THREAD HIJACK***

I like the way you did this. Good idea.

***HIJACK OVER*** we now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

I have one good idea per day so I will be worthless for the rest of today...guess I better go flying.

This was just posted on the "International Biplane Association's Photos - SUN 'n FUN" Facebook page.

A somewhat happy ending for the two brand new Rans S-7S planes "totaled" in the storm - one of which won Grand Champion. From the Rans Clan Forum

Thought I'd update what's been going on the last 5 weeks or so...

With a lot of help, Rick and I dismantled the planes at Sun n Fun to haul them to South Lakeland airport for storage until the insurance could be settled.





With both Rick and I purchasing the salvage rights, I flew commercial to Lakeland 2 weeks ago and removed all the usable parts from the wings. We left the carcasses in Lakeland to be hauled off as scrap. It was TOUGH cutting holes in the fabric to remove the guts...I'm not much of a surgeon...







Dean from RANS drove their enclosed trailer down from Hays, and we (mostly Dean) loaded the fuselages onto the trailer for the drive 'home'. He did a great job tying everything down.







A week ago Thursday, Rick flew his RV-8 from Virginia, and I flew my RV-4 from San Antonio to Hays. We met with Randy for most of the day on Friday to discuss the rebuild, as well as a few things we both wanted to change from our original builds. Randy was very patient with all our ramblings. We even got to ride of couple of his cool bikes up and down the road.

The fraternal twins back home in Kansas...



That's the new S-7S demo plane about to be finished up.





A pic of the new S-7S wing (ready for covering) that we'll be getting on our planes. 26 gallons of fuel, flush fuel caps, stamped ribs, a new aileron design eliminating the spades, and possibly carbon fiber wingtips. All great changes to the wing. Randy really works hard to update things. He has LOTS of ideas!



The rebuild started this week. Can't wait to be flying the Rans again!

Tom
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Tom Chapman
2010 S-7S Courier
RV-4 (flying for 22 years)
San Antonio, TX
Boerne Stage Airfield (5C1)