Trick or Treat?

Lot's to catch up on here in the last 4 days. Let's start with the Halloween special:

 

We have been waiting now all week for the TBM to clear US Customs.  So we went to the docks to spy on things today and saw that new concrete barriers have appeared on all sides of the plane.  We inquired and were informed that the plane is now quarantined.  So it is evident that our TBM is going to be sitting there for a while longer now.

 

So we are all leaving for our respective homes.  Taigh (our specialist, consultant) and Steve (our mechanic), are headed to Milwaukee with another client who owns a Beech 18, then back to Stockton, CA.  I am flying back to Chicago mid day tomorrow.  When the TBM does clear customs, hopefully next week, we will all return and resume the process.
 

Trapped and quarantined - October 26th

View from above in the Beech 18 (picture taken 2 days ago before the barriers were added).

 

 

In the meantime, some highlights touring around the last couple
of days waiting for US Customs.

The Lyon Air Museum at John Wayne Airport:



Jim "Eshie" Eshelman, Served heroically in WW2, B-17 tail gunner over France and Germany,
Purple Heart, Air metal & French Metal of Honor recipient.

Inside the famous C-47.  Note the seat tubs for paratroopers.  Also note the detail parts of the paratrooper's uniform,
looks like it is very authentic.

 

San Diego - at the aircraft carrier USS Midway CV-41:



USS Midway CV-41 in San Diego, CA

 

 

The famous Douglas SBD Dauntless (my favorite plane all time)

The Swiss cheese dive brakes

SBD - close up of pilot

 

SBD nose