B-36 Peacemaker Canopy Longitudinal Frame Progress
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- I’m glad that’s behind me…..
I’ve been dreading taking a day to cut, form and weld those longitudinal frames as knew their installation would warrant the need to revise other areas of the canopy.
Nothing I can’t fix. Once get the “hoop” base done around the backside, she’s gonna be a tank.
The canopy looks so good!
Looks perfect, Brian!
You'll be passing less than a mile from my house on your way to Fort Drum, I'm in Syracuse, NY and less than a mile east of I-81. Not sure when the last time is you've been up this way, but construction has begun on what will turn the elevated portion of I-81 through the city here into a boulevard, and those wishing to avoid that will be able to skirt around it on I-481. So you'll encounter some construction. Of course in PA, there's perpetual construction on the interstates, especially I-81.
I've driven up in the Ft. Drum area more than a bit, and in fact I drove across the base at least once or twice way back in the late 70s, early 1980s, when I occasionally did deliveries for a wallpaper & paint wholesaler I worked for back in college and a few years after I graduated. Of course the base was nothing like it is today. I my more recent years, I scheduled more than a few deliveries to not only servicemen/servicewomen up there - personal stuff - but also to different facilities. I retired from working in LTL freight in January 2023. Saw lots of freight coming and going from there - anything from huge 30KW portable generators, to shoulder fired anti-tank weapons. Whenever I scheduled a delivery to someone up there serving, I ALWAYS thanked them for their service.
You were a driver? I drove OTR for three years and I remember the perpetual road construction in PA. That was over twenty years ago.
@@B36HPeacemaker back then it was a small company that I did any deliveries for, that was just in a van, but I worked for two LTL companies, I was in operations and clerical. First LTL I did linehaul dispatch at a breakbulk (hub) terminal for St. Johnsbury Trucking, which went out of business in 1993. My second LTL stint was with UPS Freight, which is now TForce Freight - UPS sold their freight division back in 2020 I think it was? There, among other things, I would schedule delivery appointments. What company did you drive OTR for? Back when I worked for St. Johnsbury, I knew hundreds of OTR drivers, as I'd dispatch them out of the terminal I worked at, or through. We ran doubles on I-90 from Boston to the last NYS Thruway exit on I-90 before the NY/PA state line by Erie. The terminal I worked at for UPS/TForce Freight was just an end of line terminal. I talked to more than a few up at Ft Drum over my time there, not quite 10 years. I retired the end of January of last year. BTW, if I recall correctly, when I first came upon your channel and subscribed, I was like #283 or so, and now you're approaching 10X that. Your dedication to this project amazes me.
@@videotrexx I drove for MS Carriers for a year and Gainey Transportation Services for two years. After that I worked in a warehouse where I shipped LTL all day long; easily 40,000 pallets throughout my carrier. I shipped UPS freight constantly. That’s crazy they are gone. I quit working for other people in 2017.
@@B36HPeacemaker Brian - isn't it great being your own boss? Name here is John. I recall MS Carriers, and Gainey sounds a bit familiar- being that I worked in LTL first in the early 80s, I've always looked at tractor-trailers and noted the companies whenever I was on some road trip. UPS never should have gotten in the freight business, they tried running it like a small package company, they bean counted EVERYTHING. I had high expectations when I started there, as UPS does great as far as parcels go, but it only took me a month or two and I was already scratching my head. TFI International owns TForce Freight, and a whole mess of other companies. But the people running the company are still former UPS Freight management. Things have gone downhill since I left, and as a matter of fact, when I left, I created some "collateral damage"; they didn't replace me, the one woman left in the office was clueless, so one supervisor quit because they weren't replacing me (and I was one who knew the business), and then another one quit a bit later because they dumped a bunch of my work on him; he asked for more $ because of that but they wouldn't give him anymore, so he quit too. BTW, I COULD have been an OTR driver. Unlike most people, I can drive LOOOONG distances - furthest I ever drove non-stop was from Gulf Shores AL to Syracuse, and that was through a nor'easter on I-81 in PA (I LOATHE I-81 in PA). That was 1325 miles, and in PA they don't bring ANY snowplows out until it's completely done snowing. Took 26 1/2 hours, although that did include dinner at a restaurant, as well as gas and restroom stops. I slept all of 30 minutes the entire trip. PA was so bad, 6" or more of heavy wet slushy snow, and every time I came to a bridge with a stupid "Road may be icy" sign, I was like "They should just NUKE PA!". I've been on I-81 in a snowstorm in PA three times now.
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Thank you so very much ! ! ! !
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Thank you! Thank you!
That's so cool!
Meh 🤷♂️ What's 3/8" among Friends? 🙂 That little Welder is prolly made by Miller, Lincoln or Union Carbide etc. I never believed anybody could make a 110 Stick Welder that wasn't junk but, I'll be damned if I didn't have one given to me that's GREAT even with a 1/8" Rod 😳
It looks to me (casual aviation enthusiast) like the next "bulkhead" (it's shown on the illustration, but you say you didn't see it on two other examples) might be a partial bulkhead? The illustration shows the ends of the piece with a square end, not with a jagged edge like is normally done with partially illustrated cutouts. Also, that "partial" bulkhead has two very large/strong mounts holding it to the next "full" bulkhead.
Not sure why the two examples you saw wouldn't have the partial (if it's supposed to be there), what was the context of the planes you saw? Demilled/museum'd or cannibilized etc? Or maybe the engineers decided that wasn't needed?
I’m somewhat in doubt that the illustration is correct in that area because there are other aspects of the drawing that are just plain wrong. Otherwise, I have high resolution pictures of every angle of my measurement donor and the area is covered in hundred of wires that run from the engineer station to the rest of the plane. There is a lot going on, and I can see a tiny strip that runs laterally that I believe is a mounting point for wire wrap/hangers, but could be a smaller version of that pictured bulkhead.
Where in WV do you live
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@@B36HPeacemaker I use to live in teays valley and flew for health net . your build is very interesting