I consider each Friday morning after pushing out the site my Saturday morning (I work Sunday afternoon/evenings), so I’m just now back in the door from a short hop in the RV (9 minutes).
For the first time in my life I taxied up to a hangar, hit a button on a remote, and watched the door come up for me. I shut down in the shade provided by that door and washed the plane (the top surfaces).
It’s hard to put into words how pleasant the whole thing was. Of course, the entire time some of the locals were on the couches solving the world’s problems, and busting my chops for not having the bathroom/shower finished. Already feeling the love. ;^)
Looking forward to years of news theVanCave should generate, with visitors and such.
[ed. Maybe in another life! The couches were donated by the former owner. No extra money budgeted for furniture, I'm afraid. Couch or lay on the floor <g>. dr]
i can smell the friday night burgers cookn from here. that is a pilots dream! congrats on a great lookn space. looks first class. wife lookn for yoga class space? workn on my own hangar space in florida. they say, if you build a hangar build it BIG. looks like you did well. will be by some day for a look. may put in a section of moduline cabinets. http://www.modulinecabinets.com/cabinet-combinations.html
[ed. If they want to give me some that would be OK! 'Cuz that's the only way it's gonna happen, I'm afraid. :^) dr]
My hangar ( co-op so our hangar) is under construction. Can i ask you the size of yours. Just so i can figure if my math is ok. we made 4 spot of 70 ft wide X 40ft for 3 airplane each ( with a door of 60ft)
i know yours is more deep but how wide is it?
thank you
[ed. 70'wide x 60' deep. 4,200 sq ft. I used photoshop and created a rectangle 7 inches by 6 inches, then went to Van's site and downloaded some of their plan views. Resized them to be the appropriate size (ex: 22' wide wingspan would be 2.2", and used them to help lay out the floorplan. Seems to have worked out OK, as the real planes are behaving similar to what I was hoping for in the actual hangar).
Looks to be tandem, therefore likely not a Luscombe (only tandem Luscombes ever made were a small number of T8F models trying to win the liason aircraft business from the US Air Force after WW-II). The drawing looks like a good old Cub with the left wing fuel tank mod.
First, I don't see the kegerator or the BBQ. Could be there but, can't see'm.
Second, if you set it up boy/girl, boy/girl, boy/girl (low wing/high wing) you could probably get 6-8 planes in there. This would minimize aircraft movement.
Finally, "What happens at the Vancave, stays in the Vancave."
doug, wondering if you could share the cost / income/ expense numbers that the accountant came up with.
planning my van cave trip. what time of year is best? when will the shower be done?
Really cool stuff here, please post photos of any hangar aparments or man/Van caves that members or maybe people that they know might have. Would love one one day.
Doug is that a Willy's pickup behind your six? [ed. Yes, but it's not mine. It's a friend of the former hangar owner - I was asked if I could store it there for three weeks as a favor. Cool Jeep! I needed to move it up against that wall and it took longer than expected with all the levers. Where's reverse? Oh, THERE's the parking brake! Ah, this must be the choke. Nothing labeled....and fun! dr]
Or, put a folding attic ladder at the foot of the person sleeping in the bed (where the gray square is now with the small fan sitting on it). So, when one wants to sleep, they lower the attic ladder. When not in use, its out of the way.