Thursday, January 26, 2012

Tom and Steve Phinney, volunteer as AMO


Tom Phinney started out in the aviation business about 50 years ago with Plummers and Ilford-Riverton; and his son, Steve, is also well established in the business. While inspecting the Tiger Moth and creating a solid work plan for the project, Tom recalled great stories of airlifting a 1930s Fairchild out of the western Arctic near Great Bear Lake! Tom and Steve were especially interested in seeing the way the drag and anti-drag wires were constructed - drop by to the Lyncrest Airport and have a look for yourself or drop in to your local aviation museum to see what project they are working on. If anyone knows what the machine looked like that made those flying wire ends, we'd love to know - email your info to jill_oakes@umanitoba.ca or send a comment to this blog.

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