Good Stories about Plane Purchases

In article , JJS wrote:
Dylan is this the airplane that was tied down with chains and suffered
wind damage? If so was it repaired? What happened to it?

It was repaired (another long story about terrible maintenance
organisations that lie) and then properly repaired when it got back to
Salt Lake City. I left the US, my partners bought my share and then
fitted a climb prop - it didn't climb great in the Houston flatlands
with 85hp and a cruise prop, and it was even worse at 4800 feet in SLC!
(The climb prop apparently made a useful difference without degrading
cruise speed much. She only did 85 knots in any case).

My partners, realising that 85hp really wasn't the best in all the high
country they wanted to fly to sold it to a gentleman in Georgia, and
bought a share in a Cessna 180.

Unfortunately I bought a wreck of an old house and spent all of my net
worth restoring it, so all I own aviation wise at the moment is a 1/4
share in a 1960s Ka-8 glider!

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Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
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