A long time ago I saw an old picture of airplanes stacked nose down in a hangar and the tails were tied with a rope from the ceiling . It was done so that more aircraft could be stacked in the hangar . Has anybody seen that picture ? I wasn't dreaming ! I have searched the net and cannot find it .
A Goggle search for "Piper Cub Hangar" found this:
No ropes, though...
Ron Wanttaja
I have a photo somewhere of the hangar at Wisconsin Rapids full of airplanes stacked in like this. It was a mixture of Cubs and T-Craft, and there might have been an Aeronca or two as well. This was pretty common practice as I understand it.Originally Posted by rwanttaja
A Goggle search for "Piper Cub Hangar" found this:
No ropes, though...
Ron Wanttaja
I know a guy who tried to do this himself one time. He'd pick up the tail of the Cub and lift it until it was balanced (he thought) and then try to run around and grab the prop so he could set it on a stand he had made. The first couple of times the tail came banging back down on the floor before he got to the prop. The last time the airplane ended up on it's nose. He gave up at that point!
Cheers!
Joe
They were probably Walker Park-A-Plane dollies made in Racine.
Best,
HT
Take the engines off, you can store planes even tighter.
Ron Wanttaja
Mind you, there are MUCH sloppier ways of doing it...
Ron Wanttaja
Thanks, the top one is the one I was looking for .
In hindsight, that last one is a criminal act!
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I'm trying to figure out what the OTHER airplanes are, other than the Focke Wulf. They look like trainers.
Ron Wanttaja
Then there's this one (Dulles Jet Center during a snow storm a decade or so back):
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