Ed_Wischmeyer
Well Known Member
A gorgeous, cool spring day, not a cloud in the sky, light winds, perfect to go practice air work.
Got to the hangar, pushed the Up button on the door controller and... nothing.
Seems as how in the remodeling of the airfield, a contractor was digging a trench and grabbed on to a power line some distance away. Nevertheless, there was enough pull on the wiring to dislodge all the circuit breakers -- the box for 10 hangars is in mine -- and to tear a hole in the hangar wall. And there's bits of plastic on the floor both inside and outside the hangar.
So now somebody has to decide what to do as there are a half dozen airplanes stuck in the hangars, and the building is scheduled to be demolished in a month, so "real" repairs don't make a lot of sense. Talk is that they might put in a generator, but the FBO says that it will have to run 24 hours a day -- which is as it should be.
Got to the hangar, pushed the Up button on the door controller and... nothing.
Seems as how in the remodeling of the airfield, a contractor was digging a trench and grabbed on to a power line some distance away. Nevertheless, there was enough pull on the wiring to dislodge all the circuit breakers -- the box for 10 hangars is in mine -- and to tear a hole in the hangar wall. And there's bits of plastic on the floor both inside and outside the hangar.
So now somebody has to decide what to do as there are a half dozen airplanes stuck in the hangars, and the building is scheduled to be demolished in a month, so "real" repairs don't make a lot of sense. Talk is that they might put in a generator, but the FBO says that it will have to run 24 hours a day -- which is as it should be.