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Messages - Dan Rhinehart

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Culver General Discussion / Culver istrument panel
« on: June 17, 2012, 05:00:31 PM »
Hi all,

Here is a picture of an original Culver instrument panel out of NC37803 S/N 313.
My dad bought this airplane in 1977 and it was totally original and unaltered.
At the most It looks like it had one instrument hole added (lower right instrument hole???)

Note, that it's not a mahogany panel as one might expect. It's what looks like birch with a veneer over the front side.
The veneer looks to be walnut(?) but I don't know for sure. I'll take to a wood workers store and find out for sure what kind of wood the veneer is, and let everybody know.

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Culver General Discussion / Re: Culver Photos Wanted
« on: June 17, 2012, 02:19:55 AM »
Oops here I am at McCamey, TX June 21st 1977

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Culver General Discussion / Re: Culver Photos Wanted
« on: June 17, 2012, 02:17:58 AM »
Here I am with the right wing of my dad's Culver NC37803 S/N 313 the day we picked it up at McCamey,TX. It was June 21st, 1977: two days shy of my 11th birthday.

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Culver General Discussion / Re: Culver Photos Wanted
« on: June 17, 2012, 02:00:27 AM »
Here is NC37803 at Aztec NM, 1978 or 1979. My dad was in the process of rebuilding this airplane and had it to this state of completion when he died in an accident in April of 1978.

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Documentation / Re: Seat backs
« on: June 16, 2012, 07:52:53 PM »
Hi all,

I just thought that I'd ad a picture of a factory original instrument panel to this page (goes with original seats).

This panel came out of NC37803 S/N 313, which my dad bought in 1977 and it was an unmolested original.

The only modification(?) is the addition of the far lower right instrument hole.
Note, that the panel IS NOT mahogany, but rather birch???, with a very thin (1/64") wood veneer finish.
I don't know what kind of veneer the wood is, but I'll work on finding that out. Perhaps burled walnut???

If anyone wants a paper pattern just let me know,

Dan

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Documentation / Re: Seat backs
« on: June 16, 2012, 06:08:09 PM »
Wow,

Could you please take detailed pictures of the seats and post them on this sight?

I have access to some really good antique car restoration people and I suspect they could duplicate the fabric used on the seats.
I think that it's likely that the materials used were standard automotive products, many of which are reproduced for antique car restorations.

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Culver General Discussion / Re: Culver Photos Wanted
« on: June 15, 2012, 09:14:40 PM »
NC37803 at McCamey Texas June 21st, 1977.

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Culver General Discussion / Re: Culver Photos Wanted
« on: June 14, 2012, 08:17:40 PM »
NC37803 June 1977

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Culver General Discussion / Re: Original Cadet colors??
« on: June 14, 2012, 08:10:48 PM »
Correction:
The red and black Culver was NC37803 S/N 313

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Culver General Discussion / Re: Original Cadet colors??
« on: June 14, 2012, 03:17:11 AM »
My dad bought NC3703 in the summer of 1977. It had been setting in a hangar in McCamey, Texas since around 1957. It still had the NC prefix on the N-number, hence it could have been painted no later than 1949. I had the job of removing the very rotten fabric off the fuselage, which referring to the N-number must have dated back to at least 1949. I doubt (based on the airplanes records) that the fuselage had been recovered since new. The fuselage fabric showed no signs of more than one color, nor as I remember did the sheet metal. Its colors were a black fuselage and rudder with red wings and tail. It had the usual three parallel pinstripes on the fuselage in red.

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Culver General Discussion / Re: New wings for the Culver Cadet
« on: June 08, 2012, 11:12:22 PM »
Does anyone know what the difference is between the 1940 "hollow spar" (hollow spot between the wing attach points and landing gear attach points, and the later spars(1941-1942) that this area is solid? Was there a problem with the older hollow spar, hence said problem was corrected.

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