A belated Happy Birthday to young Brian!
Old Rick
PS - Jim, I loved that old crate too.
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Brian,
>
> I think what you are seeing on the rivet heads is the glare of the sun off
> of the rounded head of each rivet. They were painted. You can see similar
> flares off of some of the stiffener risers on the vertical tail.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 12:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Fully Restored 1948 Stinson 108-3
>
>
> > Looking at that plane makes me a little regretful that I never learned to
> > fly.
> >
> > Never mind; I have my own boat and learned to operate it safely ( and by
> > extension others) in pretty rough seas.
> >
> > Interesting that the body etc panels are all new paint but the rivets
> have
> > no
> > paint on them.
> >
> > The camera did a fine job on the images, but I note that they don't leave
> > a
> > lot of change out of 1MB per image ...
> >
> > Brian (yesterday just 73 !!) Swale.
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