GROUNDED FROM AEROBATICS in the Great Lakes Biplane! Waco Great Lakes 2T-1A-2 SERVICE BULLETIN GL-SB0002 Issued July 6, 2023 Subject Center Section Former Rib Cracks
An absolutely fabulous company that stands by their products and customers. Thank you so much for sharing this with all of us. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
I'm so glad that Waco is going to take care of your aircraft. I would love to see the video of them fixing your aircraft (if they allow you to film it). Fixing structural issues is fascinating to me and the care that goes into the engineering of aircraft like the Great Lakes is more than intriguing. Sorry to hear about Mr. Merkel.
Kind of a bummer, Ron, but better to be safe and sure that nothing is going to surprise you! Sounds like they’re going to take good care of you and you’ll be back upside down before the ice melts in the spring! Such a beautiful plane!
Great to hear WACO is covering that repair .. I bet the cost to fix it would be in the upper stratosphere! ...so, no more outside loops for a while .. ; /
Mr Rogers take and be safe with your aircraft, you only get one chance doing aerobatics of all person you already know that....thanks for your service.
Life sucks at times, but it ALWAYS could be worse...well almost always. Murphy lives and thrives. That 'coulda been worse' never works for me, but I figured I'd give it a try, anyway. I guess straight and level is better than hangared. Beautiful bird, BTW.
That's a real bummer. I miss my GL which had some center section troubles and it ultimately was removed from service. I'm curious where you reside. We live in Valley Center and I knew Ed in his later years and had the opportunity to fly the MKII. What a wonderful airplane that is.
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An absolutely fabulous company that stands by their products and customers. Thank you so much for sharing this with all of us. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
I'm so glad that Waco is going to take care of your aircraft. I would love to see the video of them fixing your aircraft (if they allow you to film it). Fixing structural issues is fascinating to me and the care that goes into the engineering of aircraft like the Great Lakes is more than intriguing. Sorry to hear about Mr. Merkel.
Kind of a bummer, Ron, but better to be safe and sure that nothing is going to surprise you! Sounds like they’re going to take good care of you and you’ll be back upside down before the ice melts in the spring! Such a beautiful plane!
Great to hear WACO is covering that repair .. I bet the cost to fix it would be in the upper stratosphere! ...so, no more outside loops for a while .. ; /
Thanks for letting us all know!
G'day,
Ed Merkle was one of the nicest human beings on this planet. I attended his funeral. It was one of the saddest days of my life.
Mr Rogers take and be safe with your aircraft, you only get one chance doing aerobatics of all person you already know that....thanks for your service.
Just discovered you on TH-cam. I worked with Ed at Cessna in the late 60s. He was also a very nice guy as well as a really smart one.
“Caution is the better part of valor.”
If it goes back to KBTL for repair, the food at the Waco Kitchen is great. We fly up there to eat every so often from Columbus, Ohio.
Aww DAMN ...... but you're right.
Life sucks at times, but it ALWAYS could be worse...well almost always. Murphy lives and thrives. That 'coulda been worse' never works for me, but I figured I'd give it a try, anyway. I guess straight and level is better than hangared. Beautiful bird, BTW.
Hey Ron,
You wouldn’t be having this issue with a Stearman!
Making something more rigid sounds good but not when it needs to flex.
Bummer
That's a real bummer. I miss my GL which had some center section troubles and it ultimately was removed from service. I'm curious where you reside. We live in Valley Center and I knew Ed in his later years and had the opportunity to fly the MKII. What a wonderful airplane that is.
If you do some aerobatics im not going to say anything.
I'm going to cry !! My toy will not fly !