waterbomber

Five intensive days in September

The goal for this trip was to get the tank hatches back on, and sealed and to have the

fabric covered surfaces made airworty again.

This was easily accoplished by this wonderful team of professional supporters that devoted their time.

By puttin in more than 10 hrs a day we got roughly 400hrs of work done.

Next trip will be  27/9-2/10, hopefully we will get the engines fitted by then and can start the  engine runs within an mont or two.

On the picture above is the new hangar for the Swedish Airforce Museum beeing constructed as we pass by on our way home. It will be inagurated on the 12 of June 2010. Our goal is to have our aircrat ready until then.

Screws galore! All fitted before being torqued.

Stoffe adjusting a piece of Ceconite before fiting it.

Norm Mackay and David Short from OZ.

Thanks for passing by lads and good luck on your epic flight!

Mike neraing completion of the tanks

Everybody couldn´t fit in the tent

Fuel filter and water do not go well together

Tank hatches about ready to go back on

Preparing for a day in the heat

View rearward behind the pedals

Instrument panel behind the pilots.

Here Kim, Stoffe,Mike Me, Stone, Markus, Tobias, Roth Norm, Peter and Dave are seen posing.

The sister plane of EC-FMC, EC-EVK has been sold to The Quantas Foundation. The engineering crew on that aircraft paid us a visit for a "barbie" on sunday evening.

Mike is eager to go for a ride! 

Roth and Tobias adjusting the Nitrogen pressure in the oleos

Michael Astrom is normally Technician / Engineer on an other Consollidated aircraft, the G4

but i think her prefers vaccuming the tanks on a cat when temperatures reches 50 degrees C

Markus Hoffer, busy cleaning tha tanks

One more additional person on this trip was Chris Soeteman who, when not busy as a captain

flying for a big duch company, flies the Dutch PH-PBY. We also go valuable help from Aneta from Poland that wanted ho give us a helping hand.

The day after our workforce was reinforced by no less than five fresh aircrafttechnicians

from ALG (See link) Here seen relaxing after a hard first day in the Spanish sun.

So, finally back after a lot of struggle to get everything ready for this trip.

Me, Chris, Mike, Markus havig dinner in the warm Spanish night undeer the wing of our Cat-

Amazing project guys. I do dream of some day having the chance to restore a beautiful old flying machine myself. You inspire me. I wish you all best of luck!

Gr8 pix, David! Let's hope that the engines are installed and ready to be fired up next time at Ocana :)

David, fantastiskt arbete och otroligt roligt att kunna följa ert arbete med de bilder du lägger ut!