Re: Wood/Fabric durability question

[Rich S.]

"Todd Pattist" > wrote in message
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> "Robert" > wrote:
>
> >How old are Tiger Moth Aircraft.
>
> The one I brought to the breakfast fly-in yesterday was
> bult in 1945.

I'm headed out to Thun Field today in a Tiger that was built in 1939.

'Course, it's a little like that axe my granddad owned for eighty years.
Only had the handle replaced three times and the head twice.

Rich S.

[Richard Lamb]

"Rich S." wrote:
>
> "Todd Pattist" > wrote in message
> ...
> > "Robert" > wrote:
> >
> > >How old are Tiger Moth Aircraft.
> >
> > The one I brought to the breakfast fly-in yesterday was
> > bult in 1945.
>
> I'm headed out to Thun Field today in a Tiger that was built in 1939.
>
> 'Course, it's a little like that axe my granddad owned for eighty years.
> Only had the handle replaced three times and the head twice.
>
> Rich S.


Roger Freeman has a JN-4 Jenny, originally built in 1917.
That makes it about 97 years old.

It still has most of the original steel fittings (scads of them!),
but none of the original wood.

[plasticguy]

"Richard Lamb" > wrote in message
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> David Johnson wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Roger Freeman has a JN-4 Jenny, originally built in 1917.
> > > That makes it about 97 years old.
> >
> > Make that 87 years......
> >
> > If you're like me, you can't even count anymore without a
> > calculator. The good news is that they can be had for a
> > buck at Dollar Tree. Keep one in every room.
> >
> > David Johnson
>
> There is a full blown computing machine right here in fromt
> of me. Calculator won't help much if I don't use it...
>
> So call it 13 years until it's 100 years old?
> Somebody check my arithmetic!
>
> Richard

I think it makes the airplane 86 years old. Its first birthday was in
1918..........
Scott.