Nothing By Chance
“The Great American Flying Circus was out of business again.
Not counting the bent struts and broken landing gear fitting, two other gear fittings had begun to tear away, a brake arm had been ripped off, the top of the cowl was bent, the right shock absorbers were broken, the left aileron fittings were twisted so that the control stick was jammed hard.
But the hangar next to us was owned by one Stan Gerlach, and this was a very special kind of miracle. Stan Gerlach had been owning and flying air...planes since 1932, and he kept spare bits and pieces of every plane he’d owned since then.
“Look, you guys,” he said that afternoon, “I got three hangars here, and in this one I think I got some old struts off a Travelair I used to have. You’re free to take anything you find in here can get you flying again.”
He lifted a wide tin door. “Over here are the struts, and some wheels and junk …” He banged and screeched his way into a waist-high stack of metal, pulling out old welded airplane parts.MoreLess
Not counting the bent struts and broken landing gear fitting, two other gear fittings had begun to tear away, a brake arm had been ripped off, the top of the cowl was bent, the right shock absorbers were broken, the left aileron fittings were twisted so that the control stick was jammed hard.
But the hangar next to us was owned by one Stan Gerlach, and this was a very special kind of miracle. Stan Gerlach had been owning and flying air...planes since 1932, and he kept spare bits and pieces of every plane he’d owned since then.
“Look, you guys,” he said that afternoon, “I got three hangars here, and in this one I think I got some old struts off a Travelair I used to have. You’re free to take anything you find in here can get you flying again.”
He lifted a wide tin door. “Over here are the struts, and some wheels and junk …” He banged and screeched his way into a waist-high stack of metal, pulling out old welded airplane parts.MoreLess
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