bookmaker
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My wife and I drove our camper to Oshkosh last week and were amazed at the overall event. While there I attended a High Wing Bellanca session moderated by Jerry Jr. I think I became one of his newest thorns in the side. 
) Having an early bird, many of my questions are difficult (or impossible) to answer.
After hanging around the American Champion displays for a while, we decided to visit the factory on the way home. Dale Gauger gave us a thorough tour that we really enjoyed. It was interesting to me to see the fuselage jigs that MY 1965 Citabria was formed on 50 years ago. (and as I understood it, all Champs, Citabrias and Decathlons since 1946).
Everyone there was really nice and we asked a lot of questions. I even bought something. Not a new Decathlon unfortunately, but an upper door latch. My early Citabria doesn't have one.
If you ever get a chance stop by there, it is a real treat to see the tooling and and talk to the people to put pride in their work building (or restoring) our planes.
Dale
) Having an early bird, many of my questions are difficult (or impossible) to answer.After hanging around the American Champion displays for a while, we decided to visit the factory on the way home. Dale Gauger gave us a thorough tour that we really enjoyed. It was interesting to me to see the fuselage jigs that MY 1965 Citabria was formed on 50 years ago. (and as I understood it, all Champs, Citabrias and Decathlons since 1946).
Everyone there was really nice and we asked a lot of questions. I even bought something. Not a new Decathlon unfortunately, but an upper door latch. My early Citabria doesn't have one.
If you ever get a chance stop by there, it is a real treat to see the tooling and and talk to the people to put pride in their work building (or restoring) our planes.
Dale