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In my recent chocolate's run (Tm :-) I picked this little 3/8 dado plane, stamped J.W. Farr & Co New York. A dado plane is similar to a Rabbet plane but characterized by the addition of a depth stop and a nicker ahead of the main cutter, which is normally skew since we are cutting cross grain First time I ran into this planemaker,  so looked him up and this is what little I found about him. We know from his indenture papers , when he was 16, he apprentices for 4 years, 5 months and 13 days under Emos Baldwin (in business 1817-29,  became A & E Baldwin 1830-41) J.W Farr was in business from 1832-51 J.W. Farr & Co, no date given but presumably post 1851 He was one of the many NY plane makers that were trained by the Baldwins. In those days, numerous wannabee planemakers were trained by either Balwin or Chapin, who were two of the biggest wooden planemakers of their days. After their apprenticeship were completed, many left the immediate area and went to established ...

This small aviation museum situated at the entrance of 14 Wing Greenwood, is growing in leaps and bounds in an effort to represent one of each types of aircraft that were associated with the base since its opening in 1942. Or as we volunteers that work on these aircraft like to say: Holy shit another one? We are running out of room to work! :-) These three recent additions were stored on the Wing for a little while awaiting their transport to the museum. The Challenger was flown in, the Hercules retired from service, replaced by a new J model, and the Arcturus were taken out of service a few years back. That airframe, No 119 was used as a training aid at the training Sqn 404 (my last unit) This week it finally happened, all three aircraft's, the Challenger, the Hercules and the Arcturus were moved out thru the front gate of the base. In preparation, the front gate and fencing around it were removed, some electrical cables temporally moved and the three planes made it out the base ...

The day started innocently enough... Turn on the computer to be greeted by a message that says Update to Window 10 free until Jul 29th. So I thought, well that probably meant they are about to ditch support to Win 7 so may as well... Took bloody forever it took upon itself to scan and fixed all my drives attach to that PC, that's about 2 Tb of storage, yes lots of tools pics :-) Oh yeah, I'm so excited... Its like watching a submarine race... ZZZZ That was in between publishing part 1 and 2 of the illustrated type study lists. Still have some small gripes about the updates but for the most part, seems OK, the new Microsoft Edge, which replaced Explorer, looks a lot like Google Chrome...hummm So figured may as well leave it alone to do its thing and go play with Rudy :-) I'm playing with my monkey Dad Listen, do you hear that sound ?? Yah, i'm pretty sure its that Chipmunk Well, what are we waiting for?? I know he is out there, I heard him... I see him, lets go Dad! I kn...