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Showing posts with label bapa.be. Show all posts
2014-05-21
BAPA.be Pictures of the restoration of the North American B-25 J 44-30925 update
Libellés :
Aircraft restoration,
bapa.be,
North American B-25 Mitchell
2013-12-29
BAPA NEWS November & December 2013
November & December 2013
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Cold but on the frontline !
November and December was cold but busy.
Laurent started to paint the parts of the front undercarriage he already lovely restored. To preserve and protect the parts he restored, Laurent put not less that 3 layers of primer and 3 layers of paint. Fortunately all the paint reference are included in the maintenance manuals we have. Although it was time consuming to find exactly the same colour, he succeed in doing it. He also restored the identification plates applied on the different parts. As mentioned last month, he build a support to test retraction of the undercarriage, see a demonstration in video.
Vincent painted the wings of the Flying flea, he is working on. The compressor is not yet in place but using a mobile unit, he can achieve good results (although he hate the yellow colour).
On the B-25 front fuselage, both Yves started to work in the bombardier compartment. Any remains of glass mastic used to fix the Plexiglas are removed and we also repaired small scratches. We discovered very few corrosion zones. Most of the damaged parts can be easily repaired by manufacturing new ones. Once the cleanup will be done, Thierry will do a checkup for corrosion and we will share our findings to be sure nothing is forgotten. He already repaired a small bump. We also searched to understand how the floor was fixed. We discovered two different models were used but the good news is these parts can be made from scratch and we do not need to buy expensive specific parts.
Eric is finishing to remove carefully to the damaged parts on the central section. It took him a lot of time avoiding to further damage these parts. Some nuts were very resistant and needed hours to be removed.
We had the visit of the third Yves and the RSAB organized a meeting in Gembloux. More than 30 visitors had the occasion to share with us their experiences and their broad knowledge.
Robert fabricated a box to store the blades of the focke achgelis of Didier.
We received from Marc Vanderelst a splendid picture of the B-25 Mitchell of the 180 squadron. The father of Marc flow with this unit.
Thierry is working on a workshop security checklist.
Winter is almost there, so we plan to buy sweat-shirt and overall to protect ourself against the rigors of the Belgian weather. If you are interested.
They will be on sale with BAPA from January at 37 Euro for BAPA members and 50 Euro for non members. If you are interested please contact us
The back is decorated with the pinup once painted on our B-25. If you are interested please contact us.
The safety poster is updated at the workshop as a reminder of good practices and put a copy of these posters at http://www.bapa.be/safety
On the archiving from, we are currently putting in service a backup of digital documents already scanned.
More than 140 documents of the Veys collection are now available at http://www.bapa.be/our-projects/07-collection-michel-veys
Our collection of digital aircraft manuals is now of 808 items (https://sites.google.com/site/bapabe2/our-projects/archives) .
Thanks again to all those we support us. Our finance status is healthy for the end of this year but we need to increase our capabilities in 2014.
Any support, financial as well in gift of tools, archive or aircraft is still welcome. See more at http://www.bapa.be/how-to-help-us
Many happy landings
All pictures available from our picture albums
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Visit us on www.bapa.be
Who is the BAPA ? see http://www.bapa.be/about-our-organization
We do it because we did not know it is supposed to be impossible
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2013-12-19
www.1001belges.be : vote for us
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Restauration d'avions anciens
En quoi consiste la restauration d'avion ?
Faut il des compétences particulières
La recherche des archives
Le travail d'équipe
Restaurer et préserver pour les générations futures
Préserver les techniques anciennes
Libellés :
1001belges.be,
bapa.be
2013-10-31
BAPA Belgian Aviation Preservation Association Newsletter October 2013
October 2013
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10 !
Last October 14th, the 10th aircraft joined the BAPA in Gembloux. This is a magnificent Austria Glider offered to us by Willy Marrot thanks to the help of Bob. After the arrival of the machine, she was quickly cleaned by the enthusiastic team.
This is not the only news at our workshop.
Eric put on display USAAF pilot equipment near the P-38 display. Our future visitors will have so the possibility to learn about flight gears.
Laurent continue to work on his front undercarriage but now he can simulate retraction and extension of the device. This is the first time in many years of active restoration we make an aeronautical device back in functional state. Unusually, we restored parts for static display only. This achievement was completed in just 3 months.
Yves and Thierry started to work on the front fuselage. Taking advantage of their long experience, they first concentrate on the documentation. Thierry setup a professional logbook of all the operations performed on the airframe. They started to work on the airframe but any task if first carefully planned to cope with the manuals.
Eric also dismantled damaged parts on the central section of the wings to secure future operations and study what need to be done for repairs. It was a long and painstaking task.
Thanks to the results of the inauguration party (Thanks again Alex) . We started to buy the missing equipment for our restorations. A dummy for Eric USAAF flight gear and others first necessity tools were purchased hunting the internet to find the best cost effective solutions. We are still looking for some missing tools, if ever you can help please find the list of what we search at http://www.bapa.be/how-to-help-us
All together we cumulated much more than 100 years of experience. In this long time, we succeed in avoiding accidents during our restoration activities. Safety is for us mandatory and critical. Aviation and specially the Belgian Air Force has a very long tradition of promoting safety by the use of posters. We will use vintage safety poster at the workshop as a reminder of good practices and put a copy of these posters at http://www.bapa.be/safety
On the archiving from, we restarted to publish the already scanned documents of the Veys collection. More than 140 documents are now available at http://www.bapa.be/our-projects/07-collection-michel-veys
Our collection of digital aircraft manuals is now of 808 items (https://sites.google.com/site/bapabe2/our-projects/archives) . Robert provided to us some extra cabinets very helpful to store the documents we collected or we received.
André Dillien offered to us his Belgian registration files. The last update is available from www.bapa.be
Thanks again to all those we support us. Our finance status is healthy for the end of this year but we need to increase our capabilities in 2014.
Any support, financial as well in gift of tools, archive or aircraft is still welcome. See more at http://www.bapa.be/how-to-help-us
Many happy landings
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Help us ? see : http://www.bapa.be/how-to-help-us
We do it because we did not know it is supposed to be impossible
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Libellés :
aircraft preservation,
B-25,
bapa.be
2013-09-18
Nieuwsbrief 72 - "Is de sluiting vliegveld Saint-Hubert onafwendbaar?"
Forwarded message - From: Hangar Flying vzw
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Libellés :
bapa.be,
Hangar Flying.be
2013-09-07
September 1 : BAPA official startup & workshop inauguration
On September 1st, the Belgian Aviation Preservation Association was officially launched and our workshop was also officially opened. We had a party with some of the friends who helped us to make these two initiatives successful.
See more at http://www.bapa.be/in-the-community
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
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Libellés :
B-25 Mitchell,
bapa.be
2013-09-02
BAPA latest news
September 2013
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More pictures of the BAPA party will follow
André Dillien lists André compile Belgian aircraft civil registrations, Belgian pilots lists, Russian pilots lists. One time per month we upload his lists to share with any enthusiasts
On September 1st, 2013, André offered his lists to the Belgian Aviation Preservation Association (BAPA)
www.bapa.be
Libellés :
André Dillien Lists,
bapa.be
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