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
nice write-up Haven!
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