And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It's a DeHavilland Beaver (DHC-2) so it has three fittings on each side for attaching floats. Make brackets for each fitting and bolt them into the floor and it'll be fine. You can only jack, support or tie down an aircraft at very specific points that were engineered and built into it. There is a chapter in the manual detailing how to pack and ship it without damage. The Beaver has four threaded holes on top of the cabin that you screw lifting eyes into to lift it with a crane to swap floats for wheels. Very handy compared to a Cessna 185 which has no such provision. Al_in_Ottawa
Not quite ready. Needs some packing around it, and tied down, otherwise the recipient will open the box to a collage of broken parts.
ReplyDeleteIt's a DeHavilland Beaver (DHC-2) so it has three fittings on each side for attaching floats. Make brackets for each fitting and bolt them into the floor and it'll be fine. You can only jack, support or tie down an aircraft at very specific points that were engineered and built into it. There is a chapter in the manual detailing how to pack and ship it without damage.
ReplyDeleteThe Beaver has four threaded holes on top of the cabin that you screw lifting eyes into to lift it with a crane to swap floats for wheels. Very handy compared to a Cessna 185 which has no such provision.
Al_in_Ottawa
My 1979 Cessna 185 had 4 lifting eyes on top...
ReplyDelete"That'll never fly, Orville."
ReplyDeleteDeHavilland built some very fine aircraft.
ReplyDeleteLooks like that beaver got stuffed.
ReplyDeleteInto a container.