Another $$Big$$ project

After many years of "sitting on my hands" or more appropriately waiting while I worked my butt off thinking I was "General Contractor" material, we finally packed up our hangar queen and sent it off to sunny Idaho to be restored.

If this airplane restoration goes anything like my remodeling prowess, then I should be bankrupt by the end of 2008!

The airplane is being restored by Skyline Aircraft Maintenance in Nampa, ID. My buddy John Romeo operates Owyhee Air out of Nampa and turned me on to these gents. Interestingly enough, one of the sheet-metal guys that works for Skyline has intimate knowledge of this airplane. He had helped do a major modification (upgraded the cockpit with newer controls and avionics) when it was based in Alaska. My, it's a small world.

I'm just keeping my fingers crossed and hope they keep finding more dead dinosaurs buried somewhere, preferably other than the Middle-East. But maybe I should be careful what I wish for - what would the world be like with radical Presbyterians, Lutherans, or, or... Mormons? Hmm, well, maybe - we're already there.

Ah heck, you only go around once, then you come back as as slug.

Check it out. Packing up N58SD