Friday 5 August 2011

Taking flight

More on my holiday later. Today we watched Brian Tapley and his plane. Built in 1947, it is mechanical, made with fabric. For a rebuild, they strip the fabric, repair or replace parts, and basically rebuild the plane.

He took employee Jenn up for a plane ride.

tractor hauls the plane in and out of the lake

sun and rain are hard on the plane

Brian, and employee Mike, work on it














Jenn suits up.

off they go

6 comments:

Latane Barton said...

That looks exciting and scary. the bigger the plane, the better for me.

Red said...

Very cool little airplane. I spent many hours in float planes during my time in the north.

Cloudia said...

great adventure, I'm jealous!!


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Pinay Travel Junkie said...

Looks so fun! Hope I could try to ride one someday...

Powell River Books said...

I got to go up in a float plane once and it was great fun, but when we landed it sounded like the floats were ripping right off the fuselage. - Margy

Gill - That British Woman said...

I am not a fan of small planes, think they could be dangerous? However never been in one, so how would I know that?

Gill