Texas Flying Legends Museum by Chuck Cravens View the PDF version here… Update Parts fabrication and creation of a suitable dead-straight fuselage fixture are the current focal points this month as they have been for a while now. A P-47 has about three times as many parts as a Mustang! Fuselage Parts Fabrication In the...Continue Reading
Texas Flying Legends by Chuck Cravens An angled view takes in the tail cone, covered in protective plastic. It eventually ends up attached to the forward fuselage at this end. Update The main focus for the P-47 project this month was preparation for beginning the fuselage assembly. In order to do that, a precise fixture...Continue Reading
Texas Flying Legends By Chuck Cravens This is a dimensionally stable, machined, cast aluminum toolingplate commonly called MIC-6 (MIC-6 ® is a registered trademark of Alcoa). Update This month didn’t happen to have a great many visible changes to the P-47, so we will be brief this time. Last month we saw the wing attach...Continue Reading
Texas Flying Legends’ by Chuck Cravens Careful realignment is always part of reinstallation when using a fixture. Update In our last update, we showed the tail cone’s initial assembly, disassembly, and finally painting. The vertical stabilizer was at the same stage. This month those assemblies are beginning to take on their final, permanent form. The...Continue Reading
Texas Flying Legends by Chuck Cravens The Christmas season was part of the time period covered by this update so, in honor of the season, I thought I would show a photo that wouldn’t ordinarily make it into an update: This is what an AirCorps-style Christmas tree looks like! The P-47 tail cone is festooned...Continue Reading
Texas Flying Legends’ by Chuck Cravens A view from the other side as Hunter works, there are a lot of those clips to put in! Last Month… The horizontal stabilizer came out of its fixture. The disassembly of the fuselage took upmany of the work hours last month as well. In the restoration shop, the...Continue Reading
Texas Flying Legends by Chuck Cravens Randy works on some of the last rivet placements in the skin. Ryan, Dalton, Randy, and Sam begin the move of the horizontal from the fixture to the bench. Update on the P-47 Last month we looked into the assembly of the horizontal stabilizer. This month the horizontal, the...Continue Reading
