Looking for a fuselage

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:54:33 GMT, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

On 12 Feb 2005 08:33:03 -0800, Bob Fry
wrote:

"Jay Honeck" writes:

Anyone know where I can find an old Cessna 140 (for example) fuselage for
cheap that I could mount on a pole out front? Or a big ol' Convair prop?
Something I could hoist up onto a 3-story sign, to catch the eye of
travelers?

Anyone got any better ideas? Whatever we do, it can't be unsafe, and it
shouldn't look too kitschy...

Cessna-on-a-stick, eh? That'll sure drag'em in off the highway. I'm
thinking the MidWest and the WestCoast have different definitions of
"kitschy."

Local Hilton...about two miles from the threshold of Renton Airport...used to
have a Cessna 150 on the roof, with "Hilton" painted on it. Got pretty famous.
Then the spoilsports in the city invoked a law that said businesses could only
have one sign visible from a particular side, and instead of removing the
twenty-foot-tall "HILTON" sign they removed the 150 instead. People still talk
about it....

Ron Wanttaja

There used to be the tail section of a C150 sticking out of
the roof of a motel on Highway 99 just south of the Aurora
Bridge in Seattle. Looked just like the plane had crashed
into the roof.

John

Roger Long wrote:
We've got a right lower cowl skin for a 172 N. It has a dent which
was pounded out and is only slightly noticeable. It's airworthy but
the FBO bought us a new one because they forgot to tie down the other

airplane.

Just a few hundred more parts and you could have a whole 172!

--

Roger Long

didn't johnny cash have a song about something like that?

y'know...there's something wrong when jay is looking for a 140 to put
on a stick and i'm doin everything i can to get one all my own to go
fly in! well, not everything i can. have yet to start holding-up
convenience stores. so far.


dan

"George Patterson" wrote in message
...
Consider what an aircraft looks like after being on tiedown for a year
without
being washed. I think you'd wind up with a filthy condo for starlings in
relatively short order. The prop will be easier to keep clean.

Especially if you attach a motor to it and leave it running all the time.

Gonna put a giant plastic owl on top of it?

He won't need one if he goes the motor route.

Pete

y'know...there's something wrong when jay is looking for a 140 to put
on a stick and i'm doin everything i can to get one all my own to go
fly in! well, not everything i can. have yet to start holding-up
convenience stores. so far.

Well, Dan, I suspect the kind of aircraft I'm looking for is NOT something
you'd be willing to hang yourself beneath at 5,000 feet!

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

George Patterson wrote ...

Consider what an aircraft looks like after being on tiedown for a year without
being washed. I think you'd wind up with a filthy condo for starlings in
relatively short order. The prop will be easier to keep clean. Gonna put
a giant plastic owl on top of it?



You've never been crow huntin' have you George? The plastic owl will
keep the starlings away, but the sky will grow dark with screamin',
crappin' crows.

Daniel

There used to be the tail section of a C150 sticking out of
the roof of a motel on Highway 99 just south of the Aurora
Bridge in Seattle. Looked just like the plane had crashed
into the roof.

We talked about doing this, but decided that this was NOT the message we
wanted to send to the general public (the vast majority of our guests) about
aviation.

Especially given our proximity to the runway! (If you stand on the Red
Baron Suite's balcony, and have a really good arm, you could just about hit
Rwy 25 with a baseball...)

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I've seen full scale fiberglass Spits and ME109's for display purposes
online that would look real nice on a pole.




"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:dzyPd.65769$eT5.16483@attbi_s51...
y'know...there's something wrong when jay is looking for a 140 to put
on a stick and i'm doin everything i can to get one all my own to go
fly in! well, not everything i can. have yet to start holding-up
convenience stores. so far.

Well, Dan, I suspect the kind of aircraft I'm looking for is NOT something
you'd be willing to hang yourself beneath at 5,000 feet!

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Go to MotArt.com and contact Tim. He'll be able to put you in touch with
aircraft junkyards across the country.
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:exoPd.33895$C24.16818@attbi_s52...
Or a big propeller.

Now that our conversion to an aviation theme-suites hotel is almost
complete, we think it's time to make the *outside* of the place look more
aviation-ish. (We've only changed the inside, thus far.)

Anyone know where I can find an old Cessna 140 (for example) fuselage for
cheap that I could mount on a pole out front? Or a big ol' Convair
prop?
Something I could hoist up onto a 3-story sign, to catch the eye of
travelers?

Anyone got any better ideas? Whatever we do, it can't be unsafe, and it
shouldn't look too kitschy...

Thanks!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"





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Jay,
How about a "Connie" ( Constellation ). Yep, the full size plane.
Used to be outside a BAR!!!! ( lounge ) in New Orleans. It was just
off the interstate, probably why it's no longer there. Probably caused
too many near-wrecks, involving mainly ME!!!!

Neal


Jay Honeck wrote:
y'know...there's something wrong when jay is looking for a 140 to
put
on a stick and i'm doin everything i can to get one all my own to
go
fly in! well, not everything i can. have yet to start holding-up
convenience stores. so far.

Well, Dan, I suspect the kind of aircraft I'm looking for is NOT
something
you'd be willing to hang yourself beneath at 5,000 feet!

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On 12 Feb 2005 08:33:03 -0800, Bob Fry
wrote:

"Jay Honeck" writes:

Anyone know where I can find an old Cessna 140 (for example) fuselage for
cheap that I could mount on a pole out front? Or a big ol' Convair prop?
Something I could hoist up onto a 3-story sign, to catch the eye of
travelers?

Anyone got any better ideas? Whatever we do, it can't be unsafe, and it
shouldn't look too kitschy...

Cessna-on-a-stick, eh? That'll sure drag'em in off the highway. I'm
thinking the MidWest and the WestCoast have different definitions of
"kitschy."


Welll..he could go with Cessna wrapped around a pole..er...stick, but
it migth not create the desired impression.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Try something less real, more abstract and artsy. For instance, at
the Sacramento Airport, they put up some enormous colorful birds:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?L3372267A
[username: root password: password]

I'm not suggesting you go to that extent, but maybe some tastful
artwork on your existing sign or the front of your hotel. Get your
wife involved or your stained-glass artist friend. Props and wingless
fuselages appeal to 0.5% of your potential guests. Don't turn away
the other 99.5%.