Gives me flashbacks to when I was a kid and Dad gave me a screwdriver and a cast metal airplane, that kept me occupied for days and started my love of working with my hands. I think I wore that thing out taking it apart and putting it back together again.
Wait- where are the green, blue and purple parts?
Always fun doing it with a friend. Mike, another gent, and I are the only homebuilders in the class, the other 7 are professional mechanics sent here by their companies.
Success. Before we started the teardown I was completely lost about how the Bing carb worked, not a word he said during the formal class made sense to me and I didn't want to slow the class down. I went to the instructor during the break, and asked him to explain it in simple "Damn it, Jim, I'm a pilot, not a mechanic." terms. A few minutes later he had explained it to me in a completely different way, the light went on, and I understood it. The mark of a good instructor.
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