TheTraveler
Line Up and Wait
The airplane is still pretty underneath the dirt.
Beauty is only skin deep kind of thing?
That's just something that ugly people say.
The airplane is still pretty underneath the dirt.
One of the best compliments you can get, is when a little kid that knows nothing about planes, points at yours and says "look at that one mommy!"
The way I heard it was "Beauty may be only skin deep; but ugly goes clear to the bone".Beauty is only skin deep kind of thing?
That's just something that ugly people say.
The way I heard it was "Beauty may be only skin deep; but ugly goes clear to the bone".
I glad you added the so I assume you knew I was trying to be humorous.Non-sequitur. The airplane is still pretty underneath the dirt.
We do pretty much have the same procedure then. I just don't really want to take the time to do a full detail when I can pay someone to do it once a year and do it better than I could.I wash ours roughly annually and vaccuum it out. We wipe off bugs almost every flight but one can let that slide when the weather or lateness of the hour says common sense would be to stop by later at the hangar and enjoy some time puttering with the airplane.
Not spotless always, but not trashed.
The point was, why rationalize your $3500? Just say you like keeping the bird clean. The guy down the hangar row can have his looking like yours in a single day for $350.
(And anyone who won't even bother to clean theirs up to sell it, isn't really interested in selling. I fully agree.)
I enjoy cleaning the airplane. Mostly because it means I either truly have a full day off with nothing on the schedule, or I finally said "screw it" in regards to same schedule and I'm playing mental health hookey. LOL
Must. Avoid. Obvious. Joke. Here.
Nice job. I do not think I would ever entertain owning bare aluminum because I would have to make it look like that.
It gets worse when you return to your aircraft to find a 12 year old young lady standing on your polished wheel pant.I was amazed at the number of times a pilot, or line worker would come up and put their hands on it. After a half dozen times, I made a little sign that said "Touch polished Aluminum plane - only $20, pay in advance."
I had a polished Bo for a while. I only went part way though. From the spar back under the wings was painted, and the belly was painted. Not interested in polishing upside down.
Got a lot of nice comments on it. Where it really got bad was at airshows. The worst offenders seemed to be aviation folk. I was amazed at the number of times a pilot, or line worker would come up and put their hands on it. After a half dozen times, I made a little sign that said "Touch polished Aluminum plane - only $20, pay in advance."
It gets worse when you return to your aircraft to find a 12 year old young lady standing on your polished wheel pant.
I never got the scratches out.
You also have to remember that I live in Florida and my home-drome is about a mile from the ocean. If I don't keep a good coat of wax on it and keep it polished, after a few years I would be polishing through the corrosion and through the bare metal. That is why I also have my A&P run an anti corrosion treatment through it frequently.
Are we actually having a discussion about keeping our plane clean.... Bottom line TAKE PRIDE IN ONWERSHIP!!! Especially you want to sell it... The most irritating thing as a realtor when I take a buyer to a home just to find that no one took the time to clean the kitchen or make the bed or dust.... Take pride in ownership!!!
sort of. I met her when we were playing in a sand volleyball tournament on a rainly day. I also first saw my first plane after it had been landed on a muddy dirt road next to a fishing stream.Did you meet your future spouse/partner in dirty sweats, un-showered, and a week after you lost your toothbrush?
Another saturday, another dirty plane. It's like an epidemic. Of course, I'm shopping downmarket as I usually do but there's really no reason the plane can't be washed, pump up the struts, put the battery in, and wipe down the interior. Jeeeeezzzz...
When people give up this all-consuming hobby, I've noticed at least some percentage just totally check out. They don't go near their stuff for fear they'll get sucked back in or something. Others hang on until they're too old to even wash the thing.
Just saying I've seen those. And they could be some of the airplanes you're looking at.
No doubt.
I know a fine C-170 180h.p. that's lonely and collecting dust in a dark hangar right now because my old friend lost his medical. But he won't part with it.
Not yet.
But don't become emotionally involved with an inanimate object.
And don't let pride in ownership let pride become your owner.
Top line, know why you purchased an inanimate object.
That 180 really looks nice and deserves to. When I started flying in the late fiftys they were very common and I flew them and flew in them. Today it's rare to see one and especially that well cared for. In those days most were three pointed which was not a big deal. Nice stable airplane.
I have a question to those of you who are into spotless planes. Does that carry over into other parts of your life? Are you cars like that? Your homes? Your workshops and hangars? Really, I'm not being facetious, I really do want to know.
I had a friend who was not a pilot, but he did take "pride in ownership." He began a harangue about a situation that left me breathless. Another friend had spent the night in his home. The friend took a shower and FAILED TO WIPE DOWN THE SHOWER STALL. A week later he was still angry, and asked me how someone could be so inconsiderate as to fail to do something so necessary.
Am I missing something here? Am I out of touch with the rest of the world? I've never detailed my plane (or car) or wiped down a shower stall.
I have a question to those of you who are into spotless planes.
I have a question to those of you who are into spotless planes. Does that carry over into other parts of your life? Are you cars like that? Your homes? Your workshops and hangars? Really, I'm not being facetious, I really do want to know.
We humans can be as eccentric as we like. The inanimate objects don't care. Only other humans with their own eccentricities.