Fairchild Club Forum

'Not a huge fan of FB, but it is definitely the best platform out there and unquestionably the path of least resistance. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 16:12, Buster Colvin bt13bc@yahoo.com [fairchildclub] wrote:   I agree with Bill, I don’t like Facebook but we would have a...

'Definitely check cable tension. Also check for anything bent back there, if the pivot axis is not tipped sufficiently aft at the top, it will shake violently (kind of like a defective shopping cart castor). Check this article.  Interesting article on tailwheel shimmy - Backcountry Pilot Interesting...

'That's the stuff - a tube will last you a millenium, but once you use it, you'll never understand how you ever got by without it. I had a gascolator that would not stop leaking no matter what I did - new plunger, new orings, nothing. Then someone suggested this stuff - has not leaked since - 7 year...

'Try smearing all of the pieces with a THIN layer of fuel proof grease.

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'Wow, I am  with impressed and very sorry to hear this story. God bless you. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 15:39, Mark Denest mdaero1@comcast.net [fairchildclub] wrote:   Many of you here know of myself and my dad Joe. Some of you may remember his car accident almost two ye...

' Craig, I would much prefer the email version too, can you sign me up for it? Thank you! T On Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 1:23:38 PM EDT, Craig cvcantwell@verizon.net [fairchildclub] wrote:   A quick follow up on the emailed newsletters. There were about a dozen people that wished to convert to the ema...

' Excerpts from AN 03-258-9, "Handbook of INstructions With Parts Catalog for Expander Tube Brakes" dated 15MAR1945...... From the SERVICE INSPECTION, MAINTENANCE AND LUBRICATION section:(2) Brake clearance (with cool wheels and brakes, 0.015-inch clearance)...   ...When in service, the cl...

'I interesting Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 13:52, Michael Kelly hotfoot49@hotmail.com [fairchildclub] wrote:   The Canadian PT-26 wasn't a zinc chromate. It was  as Pete described as an apple green sort of color. The American Fairchild PT's had silver tubing. Keep 'em Flyi...

'Mil  spec.  Stinking autocorrect Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 13:31, Thomas Rood wrote: It's not just miles spec zinc chromate primer? Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:44, pcrawford262@iquest.net [fairchildclub] wrote:   The fuselage tubes and inter...

'It's not just miles spec zinc chromate primer? Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:44, pcrawford262@iquest.net [fairchildclub] wrote:   The fuselage tubes and interior metal parts for the PT-26 are an apple green color.  Could someone tell me a source and identification of this...