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The Piper Tri-Pacer when I bought it 2 March 1968 in Vale, Oregon
The fabric was so rotten that I could put my finger through it, so gently flew it to Lee Coch's hangers and repair facility in Caldwell, Idaho holding my breath all the way.
Removing the control surfaces on a cold and stormy day / Poor thing, it lost its wings
Recovering the control surfaces / Jim Knutson watching Lee try out
the heat lamp I made for shrinking the fabric. Before this lee had used an iron.
Jim helping with the wing / The new tip on and the wing recovered and in gray dope
with the naked airframe behind it
Working on the airframe rebuilding it and getting it ready to recover.
Kenny Goule and I by the airplane in the wheat field we landed in on the first forced landing
Five years later on the airfield in Nampa, Idaho. It is still looking good.
You can see the droop tips vey well in these photos.
The third airplane I rebuilt. A Piper Apache PA-23.
Lee Cock could not be used on this one as it was being rebuilt in Western Oregon.
This one was built out of an Airplane junk yard and flew well,
but was an old hydraulic aircraft and that means a lot of maintenance.
This photo was taken in Florida, so you can see it worked.
