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Hi I'm Paul F. Smith, a new member in this forum. I have been lurking in the background for the past few months getting a feel for the people in the forum and the topics that are discussed. My father when he passed away six years ago left my mother, my three brothers and myself a collection of antique and Homebuilt aircraft. Since that time I have semi retired from my position as a research and development chemist and movedback to the Chicago area to take care of my elderly mother. To combat boredom I went back to school and earned my A and P mechanics license.
My father had two 1946 J-3 Cubs in his collection. One rebuilt about 10years ago, but never flown, an early46, with wood spars and a late 46, with metal spars. The late 46 has not flown since 1970, but it was rebuilt in the early 80s, but never flown.
Right now taking care of my 90-year-old mother is taking precedent, but I hope next spring I'll start working on the aircraft trying to get them back in the air where they belong. My goal is to keep the wooden spar aircraft as stock as it's humanly possible, and the metal spar one having some of the bells and whistles, a higher horsepower engine, wing tanks, grove brakes, bring it up to more modern standards. Since the aircraft were redone 30 years ago and 10 years ago, The more recent one done when my father was starting to have minor strokes and health problems, and the AI was losing his vision, I have decided that I'd like to take the fabric off and just go through everything to make sure everything is good. The more recent restoration was done with the water-soluble system that Stewart ended up buying, but at that time the system still needed more work to make at the good system it is today. I'm sure I'll be asking lots of questions and getting back even more opinions on how things should be done. I look forward to interacting with all of you in the future.
Paul
My father had two 1946 J-3 Cubs in his collection. One rebuilt about 10years ago, but never flown, an early46, with wood spars and a late 46, with metal spars. The late 46 has not flown since 1970, but it was rebuilt in the early 80s, but never flown.
Right now taking care of my 90-year-old mother is taking precedent, but I hope next spring I'll start working on the aircraft trying to get them back in the air where they belong. My goal is to keep the wooden spar aircraft as stock as it's humanly possible, and the metal spar one having some of the bells and whistles, a higher horsepower engine, wing tanks, grove brakes, bring it up to more modern standards. Since the aircraft were redone 30 years ago and 10 years ago, The more recent one done when my father was starting to have minor strokes and health problems, and the AI was losing his vision, I have decided that I'd like to take the fabric off and just go through everything to make sure everything is good. The more recent restoration was done with the water-soluble system that Stewart ended up buying, but at that time the system still needed more work to make at the good system it is today. I'm sure I'll be asking lots of questions and getting back even more opinions on how things should be done. I look forward to interacting with all of you in the future.
Paul
