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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:50 am    Post subject: Transporting Fuselage Reply with quote
Does anyone have any suggestions for transporting the -10 fuselage to the airport? I'm approximately 15 miles from the field, all on relatively congested roads. Any suggestions or info on how others have done it are appreciated.

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Tom Gesele #40473

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:05 am    Post subject: Re: Transporting Fuselage Reply with quote
Hey Tom,

Others have used snowmobile trailers, construction trailers, etc. -- has to be 8' wide. We checked into renting a trailer and found that it was a lot cheaper to hire a tow truck (skid truck, roll back -- the kind that tilts) so we're planning on doing that. It costs about $75 here in SC and they pick it up (we'll secure it) and deliver it.

Later, - Lew

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:24 am    Post subject: Transporting Fuselage Reply with quote
I had to hire the "larger" flatbed because the little one did not carry enough insurance to cover the aircraft. I had the avionics and engine installed which exceeded the 100k coveage on the little tow truck. It cost me $165 to get it to the airport for a 10 mile trip. I can't wait to haul it acrosed the county to Boulder City for the first flight.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:18 pm    Post subject: Transporting Fuselage Reply with quote
Is your favorite airport manager already banning experimental aircraft?

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I had to hire the "larger" flatbed because the little one did not carry enough insurance to cover the aircraft. I had the avionics and engine installed which exceeded the 100k coveage on the little tow truck. It cost me $165 to get it to the airport for a 10 mile trip. I can't wait to haul it acrosed the county to Boulder City for the first flight.

Rick Sked
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:07 pm    Post subject: Transporting Fuselage Reply with quote
Well, Rick, Kelly has a point.

If all the experimental-types on the field got together and refused to pay
their rent on a given month, buy no fuel, hire not a single instructor-hour,
not even a canned beverage out of the machine... say... Feb 09... you might
get city council's attention... I see an excuse for a community gathering;
homebuilders, local media, AOPA, EAA, AvWeb, AeroNews coverage... eggs and
livermush, biscuits and gravy (you guys know what that is?)... families,
well-wishers, bookies... Waffle House, (no)... on the ramp!... Around a pile
of shredded cardboard and discarded McNellis trash to heat the grill...

neal

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:47 am    Post subject: Transporting Fuselage Reply with quote
Oh yeah...Randy Walker is petitoning congress to allow Clark County to control the types of aircraft at his, I mean the county's airports. He already has been in front of the State Gov. and pitched his snake oil. The FAA is having a "let's be nice to the public and show them we are concerned about safety" forum tomorrow night at the Texas Station to better relations with the public since the two back to back crashes into the burbs around the airport. He really wants to get ride of experimentals and pilot training even though the twin that had an engine failure and went into a house trying to make it back was OK because that was certified. The EAA and the AOPA are already fighting this, the FAA won't offically say but the rumor mill has them saying there is no way he will get control of the airspace in Clark County. Short of the people that actually do the real work at the airports, those folks are very nice to deal with, Walker and his little henchmen, Cecil Johnson and Doug McNeely could care less about anything except their really nice salaries. Honestly though, I don't mind the idea of the first flight out of Jean or Boulder, I just don't like the dictatorship telling me that I can't. FWIW Bob Kaufmann and I own our hangar at VGT, 3500 SF and we pay the county $1200 personal property tax and almost $3200 a year in ground lease fees, but hey...our water is included!!

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