Thursday, February 3, 2011

Loading Paul Bikle's altitude record-setting glider on trailer for trip to Edwards AFB

Yesterday I was lucky to have been in the crew helping to load Paul Bikle's Schweizer
1-23E onto a trailer borrowed from two friendly glider pilots, Herb and Dave.  First we had to unload their glider:



Here is Paul's son, Hugh, with Herb and Dave who supplied the trailer used to haul their
SGS 1-23H-15 #73:

Hugh's hangar had his dad's glider suspended from the ceiling:   http://www.aerosente.com/2009/09/n91893-paul-bickles-123e-located.html

Some of his beautiful flyable planes had to be moved out of the way:

Here we have two thirds of the glider loaded:

Here's Paul's youngest son, Hugh's brother, Alan with museum curator Dick after the loading has been completed:

There is a wonderful write-up which accompanies the display but I don't have access to it here.  Maybe someone can email it to me and I can include it.  Meanwhile check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bikle

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