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Ramblings about flying for fun and profit

Temco Swift

  • Swifts and Articles for September 30, 2011

    This was really a slow week for the kinds of aviation articles that I like to pass along to you. To give this article a little more body I’ll combine it with a little coverage of the West Coast Swift Fly-in that I attended last weekend. I do have one link which I’ll put at…

  • Aircraft Polish, Computers and Ice

    Most of the time I spent at home between airline trips this month was spent polishing the top surfaces of my Swift. (Yes, I also polish the bottom.)  When I show pictures of the plane it usually generates questions about how long it takes to polish, who does it and what do they use.  The…

  • Wonderful Weather

    I finally  was able to go flying in my plane a couple of days ago, the first time this year.  It was just a short local flight for a little sightseeing and then six patterns to remind myself that I could still land the Swift.They were actually pretty good landings for being off for so…

  • Flying Again!

    I apologize for taking so long to get another article posted.  It’s been a crazy month or so between working on the Swift and my day job trips. I had a long period off between trips in August and , in spite of temperatures in the hangar over the 100 degree (F) mark, managed to…

  • The Resident Swift

    I have had a few requests for photos of the Swift that I fly on my days off, so yesterday before I went flying I took a few quick shots. As usual, the small photos click through to larger versions. This is the way that the plane spends most of it’s time. My friend in…

  • Globe Swift Brake Master Cylinder Rebuild

    When I finished the rebuilding of the Swift landing gear struts, actuators and downlocks I thought I was finished with the hydraulic system for a while. Not so. While I was in the wheelwells cleaning things up for the re-installation of my newly rebuild parts, I took out the aluminum hydraulic lines and polished them…