On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:20:36 -0700, unicate wrote:

"Neil Gould" wrote in message
I particularly liked the "Learn to fly here" sign.

"gatt" wrote:
It must have been a hairy crash, 'cause my ribs hurt!!

Having watched the salvage people haul my airplane away (they are NOT
careful in any way whatsoever), I would have liked to see how they
handled this one in the tree ... wonder how much is left of the tree.

Speaking of handeling:

Some years back I had the Deb into Battle Creek for a dynamic prop
balancing. A flat bed pulled in with a 421 on the back. It had
suffered a hard landing which folded the gear back, but not much
damage to the plane itself although I can't speak for the spars
internally. As I recall the engines had a slight nose down tilt
compared to the wings. That must have been one hard landing.

The wings had been removed, then the fuselage was set on the bed of
the truck. The wings were held on edge in cradles. I noted the wings
had been picked up by straps that had cut deeply into the trailing
edges and the fuselage was chained down with "Farmer bolts" screwed
into all four of the clevis wing attach points on the fuselage. Those
"Farmer bolts" were slightly over size so they cut threads into each
clevis.

For those who don't know "Farmer Bolts", they are coarse threaded,
square headed bolts.
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com