Wax & Polish January 02, 2005, 04:00:46 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48574Hi Folks What is the best polish & Wax to use on our Aircraft paint? Couldn't find it in the FAQ file. Thanks Robert
Re: Wax & Polish Reply #1 – January 02, 2005, 06:41:39 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48582Robert,Please do NOT ask that question. We almost had to split the group into 'First Finisher's' and 'Others' over that question.Search the database on 'First Finish' and you should find lots of discussion (arguments) over the subject.Barry 2001 Red RB (Washed and waxed often, polished seldom) TX
Re: Wax & Polish Reply #2 – January 02, 2005, 07:05:49 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48584Quote Hi Folks What is the best polish & Wax to use on our Aircraft paint? Couldn'tQuotefind it in the FAQ file. Thanks Robert Well, I use Nu-Finish on my aircraft (g). I also use a product called Protect-All (from Camping World) on the planes, have for years. Protect-All is good for cleaning the bugs off the leading edges, being as no water is required. They also make a no-rinse wash that uses a capful to 3 Qts of water - - I use that when the plane is really dirty.bumper
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: Wax & Polish Reply #3 – January 02, 2005, 07:31:07 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48585Well Bumper bugs on the leading edge huh. Flying below 1,000ft. AGL were you. Crop dusting or otherwise scaring the cowboys? I was going to polish my airplane and went as far as to buy a buffer but it is a long way around a Cherokee 6. Altitude and Air Speed Robert
Re: Wax & Polish Reply #4 – January 02, 2005, 08:04:21 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48590QuoteWell Bumper bugs on the leading edge huh. Flying below 1,000ft. AGL were you. Crop dusting or otherwise scaring the cowboys? I was going to polish my airplane and went as far as to buy a buffer but it is a long way around a Cherokee 6. Altitude and Air Speed Robert Robert,I have a little '46 Aeronca Champ that goes so slow (and low) that all the bugs on the leading edges hit tail first! I also have a Mooney that goes much faster, cruises at 190 mph but there's no bedroom along with you when you get there . . . for that, ya need an LD!I love power aircraft, but my real passion is soaring. In a sailplane, you always want to be as high as you can get, at least when you're far away from a good place to land(g).I think cleaning bugs off airplanes is easier than reaching the cabover on "Yonder".all the best,bumper (Minden, NV . . . a world renowned soaring center)
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: Wax & Polish Reply #5 – January 02, 2005, 09:38:34 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48593How about it John I also had a 7AC Champ the most fun airplane I ever owned. Did about 70 indicated. The cars on the hiway passed me up. I sold it
Aeronca (OFF TOPIC)- Was Wax & Polish Reply #6 – January 03, 2005, 09:02:11 am Yahoo Message Number: 48597I got my start in aviation through the USAF ROTC program at Tufts University. 36.5 hours in the Aeronca 7AC and 7DC. I remember being a "smart *ss" and routinely landing from a forward slip with a last minute flare. Gosh that was fun.Two experiences stand out: the engine quit over Portsmouth, NH and promptly re-started with the application of carb heat; I landed at Lewiston, ME on fumes. Never did like the float fuel gauge. Aah, the exuberance of youth!!! Any more Champ pilots here? Haven't flown since I retired from the finest airline that ever was.Never forget Trans World Airlines!!!NH Paul
Re: Aeronca (OFF TOPIC)- Was Wax & Polish Reply #7 – January 03, 2005, 09:41:29 am Yahoo Message Number: 48599I flew a weekly roundtrip ... every Sunday evening out of JFK to San Francisco via TWA and back on the Wednesday or Thursday red eye.... what a gorgeous soaring terminal building at JFK. TWA was a great airline
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Aeronca (OFF TOPIC)- Was Wax & Polish Reply #8 – January 03, 2005, 09:46:01 am Yahoo Message Number: 48601Paul I bought my Champ from a dear friend Col. Jim Hill USAF retied. He flew the hump in Burma (C46) in WW2. what a guy the first hop in the Champ he did 3 snap rolls on final , that will get your blood pumping. The most exciting maneuver I ever did was a ground loop -wow . My Carb. iced every time I flew under a cloud. Altitude and Air Speed Robert
Re: TWA was Aeronca (OFF TOPIC)- Was Wax & Polish Reply #9 – January 03, 2005, 12:33:18 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48609Yeah, I flew TWA a lot, too. Domestic and International. Most of it was SFO to Dulles and back. Twice
Aeronca (OFF TOPIC) Reply #10 – January 03, 2005, 10:36:52 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48643QuotePaul I bought my Champ from a dear friend Col. Jim Hill USAF retied. He flew the hump in Burma (C46) in WW2. what a guy the first hop in the Champ he did 3 snap rolls on final , that will get your blood pumping. The most exciting maneuver I ever did was a ground loop -wow . My Carb. iced every time I flew under a cloud. Altitude and Air Speed Robert Robert, You've got my heart pounding. Are you referring to "Tex" Hill who flew P-40 Warhawks with the AVG in Kunming?. As a boy I read and re-read God is My Co-pilot and dreamed of that kind of flyng. Oh yeah, you did say Jim flew the C46....NH Paul
Re: TWA was Aeronca (OFF TOPIC) Reply #11 – January 03, 2005, 10:46:59 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48645Quote Yeah, I flew TWA a lot, too. Domestic and International. Most of it was SFO to Dulles and back. Twice in one week even... I found the movie "The Aviator" gave me an interesting background on TWA. Anyone know if the movie is historically accurate?best, paul Paul,I'm definitely going to see that movie and will check back later. I remember, being hired in August 1965, the first issue of the TWA Skyliner (the company newspaper) had a picture of the check paid to Hughes when he sold TWA. $564,000,000!!! To one man. Can you imagine having that much money? ? ? ?NH Paul
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Aeronca (OFF TOPIC) Reply #12 – January 03, 2005, 10:55:35 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48646Paul I haven't heard from Jim
Re: "The Aviator Movie" - Howard Hughes -historically accurate? Reply #13 – January 04, 2005, 05:51:17 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48671QuoteI found the movie "The Aviator" gave me an interesting background on TWA. Anyone know if the movie is historically accurate?best, paul I do not know if the movie is historically accurate or not, but I'm looking forward to seeing the movie. I saw many positive reviews of the movie. Hollywood is in the business of providing entertainment for a price, not historical documentation. My previous experience with movies about historical events has been that the movie makers did not seem to be particularly constrained by the actual facts if they could make a better story out of it and sell more tickets.Given that tendancy and then if you make the subject the "elusive, reclusive" Howard Hughes, who can really know the actual truth? One could spend years researching the topic.Here is an online review of the movie purportedly submitted by Howard R. Hughes III, the son of Howard Hughes."The film "Aviator" perpetuates the same outrageously slanderous falsehoods one finds in all films and biographies of my father, Howard Robard Hughes Junior. These falsehoods include his having been largely self made; monopolistic; unethical in business; materialistic; a playboy; mentally ill; and even homosexual. In truth, however, from his son who knew him, he had none of these characteristics. My father's F.B.I. agent bodyguards began the false story line, under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover, to portray the idea that he was an incompetant businessman, and without their managerial oversight he would have bankrupted himself. Thus, they "earned" their share of the old Hughes fortune. The bodyguards perpetrated the false history when Hoover forced my father to replace his Texas Ranger bodyguards with F.B.I. agents. Through the bodyguards, Hoover forced my father to incorporate his single owner proprietorship known as the Hughes Company (a real estate firm). The F.B.I. bodyguards cum aides took a large block of the newly created stock and all of the board seats. In addition, they created a public relations department therein, by which all film and print about my father had to pass approval. Perhaps, I should write a book."I didn't even know Howard Hughes had a son, and I don't remember mention of a son at the time the settling of the estate was very much in the news. Could a son even know the whole truth?There was much controvery about various wills of Howard Hughes. Was there a valid will?I suppose that Howard Hughes could have owned an early Lazy Daze if he wanted (just to keep on topic). When did he die? Was it in the early '70s. He was probably in his reclusive phase by then.Ken of Ken, Patty and daughter Stephanie in San Diego
Wax & Polish Reply #14 – January 02, 2005, 07:33:43 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48587What is the best polish & Wax to use on our Aircraft paint? Couldn't find it in the FAQ file. I'm not sure there is any *best* polish -- any number of products will do a good job, I would think. We use Finish First. Our LD has had only one coat so far (except for the red, which has had two coats), but we'll put on another coat sometime before we take off at the end of April.Linda & Earl 2004 23.5' Red TK From Quartzsite, AZ
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