Well Louise has been watching me wander around the empty shop now for four or five months, and told me a couple of weeks ago that I needed a new project! Sadly, the -15 had been at the top of our list, but I think that will be awhile coming now (but it will come), so I started looking round, and quickly found not one, but TWO unicorns! An IO-540 pickled after a tear down/rebuild (with paperwork certifying it) at 270 hours since new, and an untouched F1 Rocket kit….complete! Talk about unicorns - I have seen folks searching for low-time 540’s and an F1 kit for very long times.
Both of these are now on their way from Vince Frazier’s shop in Indiana, and I hope soon to hear the happy sounds of air tools whirring away in the shop as we craft a new addition to our fleet.
(That’ll most likely lead to a deletion - or two - from the family fleet at some point, so stay tuned….)
I guess this means I might start posting in the Rocket forum as we go through the build process!
And wow - the kit is so complete that it comes with tires and tubes…so anyone want a pair of unused 22-year-old tubes? No….I don’t either…. (Can you say “roll-around-tires” for the shop?)