The Tangerine Dream

Question: How does a person build an airplane?
Answer: With care, attention to detail and.... One piece at a time.


The images displayed here are of an airplane (Piper J-3 replica) that I started building in 1988.
Other interests and a career that had me working long hours, and away from home more often than not caused me to put
this project aside for very long periods of time. After retiring, I was able to devote more time to it's completion, making it my new full time job.
I owe a great debt of gratitude to the many friends that have advised and counseled me in this project over the years.

I have done all of the construction myself. Because I have the skills and equipment, I chose to build all the parts I could myself as opposed to purchasing them.
As a result nothing happened very fast.

On February 15th. 2016, N709WA was awarded a "Special Airworthiness Certificate" in the the "Experimental / Amateur Built" category.

Many of these images were taken using a Canon TC-80N3 remote controller, set at a 45 second interval.
I wanted a visual record that I did the work, but didn't want to be distracted from my work by creating these images.
For some reason, I only took a few film snap shots in the early part of construction, and then nothing until these images were taken more recently.
This was a big mistake on my part, as there is no way to show all of the work time spent, except for the end product it self.
N709WA Was nicknamed the "Tangerine Dream" by Steve Bolan, a friend and fellow aviation enthusiast at Mears Field in Concrete, Washington.
The name fits very nicely.

Join me here on the last three years of a twenty eight year journey.

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