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david read
 Post subject: Thorp Central North
PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:33 pm 
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The weather was good Saturday morning so I brought the fuselage for N18JQ home so I could start repairing it. I have the wings mostly ready to go. While I had the doors open rearranging I had to share a picture of my shop. Derek and Scott are both changing shops and are currently insulating their shops so their projects moved to my shop for a bit. Right now I have 3 fuselages and 2 sets of wings at my house. They are both taking advantage of me having some tooling that they don't have to get some stuff done. A couple weeks ago we were all 3 working in the shop, Tim Mason was down from Effingham, Karen was supervising, and Tom Baker who flew 4588 to OSH this year was over. That was a fun day plus a lot of progress was made.


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 Post subject: Re: Thorp Central North
PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 2:11 pm 
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What a great Thorp factory!

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 Post subject: Re: Thorp Central North
PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:59 pm 
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The IL/IN guys are pulling the wieght! The tailwind guys (our old friend MB namley) accused us of not having any "new" thorps in the mix ... I beg to differ!

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James Grahn
 Post subject: Re: Thorp Central North
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Awesome fellas!
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Bill Williams
 Post subject: Re: Thorp Central North
PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:44 am 
Some guys just don't have anything better to do with their time...
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 Post subject: Re: Thorp Central North
PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:04 am 
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...Says the retired guy in Florida...
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 Post subject: Re: Thorp Central North
PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:49 am 
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I see you have the double doors to the loft so you can put another fuselage there too!
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 Post subject: Re: Thorp Central North
PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:00 am 
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I'm so jealous of the space and comraderie!
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david read
 Post subject: Re: Thorp Central North
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:29 pm 
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since you all have been posting some videos here is an evening flight a couple of weeks ago. I got the go pro for christmas too. My technique is a little ragged but it was a lot of fun.
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Fraser MacPhee
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:39 pm 
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Oh wow.....Hoover has nothing on you!!!.....I feel so....so.....inadequate.....

Way cool vid David!!

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david read
 Post subject: Re: Thorp Central North
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:37 pm 
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The next weekend I figured out how to use the cable that ties the headset audio in. I also wanted to see how it would work after dark. It does a good job, just need to allow for all the reflections.
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Ryan Allen
 Post subject: Re: Thorp Central North
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:45 pm 
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great video. What EFIS do you have in there?
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dan
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:49 pm 
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Fantastic Flying!!!!! Fantastic Video!!! Hope these are all ending up on you tube, this is massive publicity for the Thorp, Good job David .......Dan
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david read
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 9:31 pm 
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That is the MGL iefis. Lee talked me out of the earlier version of theirs that I had, you will see it in his current project. I have all my apples in one basket but it sure makes a simple installation and frees up a lot of panel space.
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 Post subject: Re: Thorp Central North
PostPosted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 6:45 am 
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Nice!

How about a spin to the left and a spin to the right?

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