{"id":6091,"date":"2022-09-29T09:34:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flymall.org\/blog\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2024-01-29T14:38:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T19:38:24","slug":"flymall-september-2022-wheels-wings-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flymall.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/flymall-september-2022-wheels-wings-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Flymall September 2022 Wheels & Wings Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to the Kraemer Aviation\/Flymall.org<\/a> Wheels & Wings Newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month our theme is “repurpose”. We’ll be highlighting vehicles and\/or wheels & wings components that have been repurposed or reused for a purpose other than what the original intent was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can view past newsletters here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kraemer Aviation hosted it’s annual Labor Day cookout. The weather was perfect for most of the day. A few light showers on and off, but otherwise perfect. Click here for pictures from the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We’ll start off our repurpose theme with some cool items made by Harry & Jon. Here are a few spark plug dancers that Harry & Jon made one snowy afternoon. Click here for some more pictures of the spark plug dancers plus a few other items made from spark plugs including a spark plug coat rack<\/a>. Here is a very cool Piper Arrow nose gear trunnion lamp<\/a> made by Harry. Click here for a unique piece made by Harry using an old Hawker Jet wheel and a propeller<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interested in living at an airport?  Visit our Aviation Real Estate page here<\/a>. You can view price data for airport property in our Market Watch section of the Flymall. Here is the data for all airport property<\/a>. You can refine the search by \u201cstate\u201d simply by searching for the desired state under \u201cModel\u201d. The Flymall is offering for sale a very nice grass strip in Carroll County Maryland. Click here for details<\/a>. What could be better than living with your plane at an airport, how about living in your plane. Here is an aircraft that has been repurposed as a home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click here for some pictures of airliners<\/a> that have been made into homes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Old\/retired airplanes are very popular to be repurposed as a restaurant. The Grill<\/em>–Avia<\/em> was a restaurant in Amberieu-en-Bugey<\/a>, built using two Sud-Ouest SO-30 Bretagne aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Want to have your business highlighted on the Flymall<\/a>???  We offer inexpensive rates to have your business featured on our Wheels & Wings<\/a> page.  Contact us for more info<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History Trivia:<\/strong> While it is not know for sure who was the first person to come up with the idea of using a drop tank or belly tank for a race car. Bill Burke of the famed So-Cal Speed Shop is mostly likely one of the first, if not the first to build such a race car. Here’s his most famous of these belly tank is called the Lakester (made from a belly tank from a P-38). If you can find one for sale, scale models of this sell for over $200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you enjoy history we have a new aviation history fact each day at the bottom of our webpages<\/a>.  Some days there may be more than one, just refresh the page.  And if you like Beatles history, checkout our Events Calendar<\/a> and select the Beatles category.  This is a work in progress, we’re building the most comprehensive calendar of important dates in Beatle history.  For those that like to stick with current news, we have an aviation news ticker on our home page<\/a>.  This is updated daily to show the current aviation news. You can also check current fuel prices on our home page<\/a>. Fuel prices are as easy as entering the airport identifier and clicking on search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Achievements & Special Recognition<\/strong>: Instructors, what to highlight your students first solo or other achievement here?  Just send us a short write-up and a picture or two<\/a> and we’ll post it here for you.  Click here<\/a> for our contact info.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is someone that deserves some special recognition for being creative. Harry’s friend, David Sprecher <\/a>used an old gate from a fence and made it the center section of a bicycle. It is fully functional and David does ride it. He started with a Colson rear steer bicycle. Very cool David. Click on the image for a larger view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aviation\/Aviators in the news<\/strong>: Airliners are popular aircraft to be repurposed as water bombers or aerial firefighting aircraft. Aerial firefighting dates back to around 1929.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Airplane Service Station, also known as the Powell Airplane, is a service station built in 1930 in the shape of an airplane. Located at 6829 Clinton Highway in Powell, an unincorporated community in Knox County, Tennessee, it is on the National Register of Historic Places. The station was built by brothers Elmer and Henry Nickle. Their intent was to increase business by having a service station that was visually unique, both to area residents and to travelers on newly widened U.S. Highway 25. Elmer Nickle had a strong interest in airplanes, and so the station was constructed in the Mimetic architectural style in the shape of an airplane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a place that Harry would go to with his dad in the 1960s. Jim Flannery\u2019s Constellation Lounge in Penndel, Pennsylvania. Here is a post we did on this several years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The aviation section of the Flymall<\/a> is full of aviation news, training info, and much more for the aviator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A drop tank or belly tank motorcycle, there was not much about this very cool motorcycle (just a picture online). Our Market Watch is a great resource for price info on drop tanks or belly tanks. Click here for the price data on the belly tank<\/a> and click here for belly tank racers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do you have an airframe that is not airworthy? Why not put it up in a tree? Here’s an awesome Facebook find where someone used an aircraft fuselage and made a treehouse with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Airplanes are not the only vehicles that make a good tree house. Here’s a VW Bus three house. This looks awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a Piper Seneca that Harry got for a friend that wanted to put an airplane in his front yard for his grandkids to play in. Another one saved from the scrap yard!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An aircraft can also be used just as a display piece. Years ago Harry was contacted by an aircraft owner that had an old Hawker jet that had not flown in a while. Harry was asked to do an appraisal on the plane which he did. The plane was not worth a lot due to its age and having outdated engines and avionics. Once the appraisal was completed, the owner asked Harry to try and sell the plane. With the current state of the old Hawker, it would have cost more than the plane was worth to get it airworthy. Therefore, selling the plane was difficult. So Harry arranged for the plane to be donated to the Cambridge Airport (the airport where the plane was currently located). A picnic area was made around the plane. Harry’s company Kraemer Aviation Services<\/a> donated the picnic tables. So the old Hawker lives on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Air show season is always just around the corner.  Want to travel to air shows in your own aircraft?  Visit our used aircraft page<\/a> on the Flymall to view our inventory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Car\/Motorcycle Show News<\/strong>:   The Laytonsville Cruise In<\/a> is the place to be on a Friday night in Montgomery County.  The Laytonsville Cruise In was started by Harry in 2010. It has become one of the most popular cruise ins in the area. You can follow Harry on Facebook<\/a> for daily updates during the many shows and events he attends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, September 17, the Flymall team flew to Hammondsport New York to attend the annual Wings & Wheels<\/a> event held there. All proceeds from this event go directly to the Glenn H Curtiss Museum<\/a>. The flight up was perfect with some low lying fog and smooth air. Click here for some more pictures from the flight from KAGI to KPEO<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Penn Yan airport (home of Penn Yan Aero) is located about 20 minutes north of Hammondsport and is an excellent choice for general aviation aircraft. N36777 was parked next to a classic Beaver on floats. The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver<\/strong> is a single-engine high-wing propeller-driven short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft developed and manufactured by de Havilland Canada<\/a>. It has been primarily operated as a bush plane and has been used for a wide variety of utility roles, such as cargo and passenger hauling, aerial application (crop dusting and aerial topdressing), and civil aviation duties. In addition to its use in civilian operations, the Beaver has been widely adopted by armed forces as a utility aircraft. The United States Army purchased several hundred aircraft; nine DHC-2s are still in service with the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary (Civil Air Patrol) for search and rescue. By 1967, over 1,600 Beavers had been constructed prior to the closure of the original assembly line. Various aircraft have been remanufactured and upgraded. Additionally, various proposals have been made to return the Beaver to production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The “Wheels” part of the event takes over the small town of Hammondsport. Click here for more pictures<\/a> of the car show portion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The coolest part of the event was all of the seaplane activity. They had a spot landing contest and a bomb dropping contest (they had to drop a grapefruit to hit the water between 2 pylons). Click here for more pictures<\/a> of the seaplanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click here for a video montage<\/a> of some of the seaplanes in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire town is all about Glenn Curtiss and\/or the rich boating history of the finger lakes. Click here for some signs<\/a> at the local school. Here’s a cool wall mural on the side of the local grocery store<\/a>. Even the lobby of the Best Western Motel has an airplane hanging from the ceiling and a wooden boat hanging on the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few pictures of the motel lobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Finger Lakes Beer Company is next to the Best Western. A great little tavern that serves locally brewed beer. Notice that the foam on their sign forms the finger lakes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Want an aerodynamic car? Then start with an airplane. Someone has repurposed an aircraft into a road worthy car. Very cool! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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District Harley Davidson hosted a weekend full of activities over the long Labor Day weekend. We attended the festivities on Saturday. Our 1975 Lomax<\/a> was there on display. The weather was perfect and best of all, they had free food! Click here for some pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our Events Calendar<\/a> has the most current info regarding local and national car shows, air shows, and more.  With nearly 30 categories, there is something for everyone.  The Day Tripper section<\/a> of the Flymall has dozens of day trip ideals and interesting places to visit.  Check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, the Flymall Team visited the AACA Museum. Click here for pictures<\/a> from our visit to the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The museum had numerous themed exhibits including; Orphan Cars: Vehicles from Discontinued Marques & Brands<\/a>, AMC Through the Decades<\/a>, ATVs: Off-Road Adventure<\/a>, The Jenkins 1966 Volkswagen Type 2 Deluxe Microbus<\/a>, Driving After Sundown: The Evolution of Headlights<\/a>, and Tucker Automobiles: The Cammack Tucker Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here for pictures of the 3-wheelers & sidecar rigs<\/a> on display at the museum. Click here for pictures of the motorcycles<\/a> on display at the museum. Click here for pictures of the buses <\/a>on display at the museum at the museum. Click here for pictures of the model train display<\/a> at the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can visit our YouTube Channel <\/a>by clicking on the YouTube icon at the bottom of our webpages<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How about repurposing an old shopping mall to house your collection of classic cars. Here’s a guy who did just that. Checkout the Classic Auto Mall<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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