Ed Rasimus wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:18:16 -0400, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
wrote:


Ed Rasimus wrote:

How gauche. Next you'll be putting a chrome wire through the fuel cap
instead of an old coat hangar. What then, a fiberglass float instead
of a doped cork?


People put dope on the cork?


Migod, I found out they cover the whole airplane with it!

I was a dope user long before it became fashionable--used to build
model airplanes in my basement. Red was my favorite color, but yellow
was nice too. The two major olfactory memories of my mispent youth
were airplane dope and the distinctive odor of castor oil laced model
airplane fuel.

Ohh, and my Italian aunt's "bana calda".

Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8

CAP commander when I was a kid made you rebuild the J3 if you pranged
it. Most of us rather liked doping the fabric in the hangar since you
could get high legally. We used a sort of Air Farce blue and it turned
an odd color on the cheap fabric we used. Of course in the fifties
everyone knew what kind of dope you were talking about. My grandkids
thing old granpa used the other kind on the plane.

George