Thorp Air Command - T18.net

I first flew N12055 in February of 2019 after a 3.5 year restoration. This year, she took an 7-month hiatus starting in January for some things wanted to add after the restoration and first test flights. With those things done and the conditional behind me, I've been flying her on average every three days this month. I've posted a video of a practice landing in the Thorp T-18 Facebook group. I thought I'd post occasional updates and pictures here also about the plane and the flights we're making. For my first post, I'm including three pictures taken in the past 5 days.

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John Twigg N12055 SN.79 Pittsburgh, PA (KFWQ)

She's beautiful. Congrats!

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Philip Mandel
N118BC
S/N 957
Beaverton OR

Thanks Philip! I just realized that my photo above with the clouds is a lot like a picture a forum member kindly sent me of one of her sister ships! It's a really nice paint scheme and it's weird seeing it on another plane. Too bad I didn't have my wheel pants on for this picture.

By the way, the guy who owned this plane, Robert Griffin, eventually purchased my plane from the original builder. I'm not sure why, but maybe one of the forum members knows if Griffin perhaps crashed his plane or if he just liked N12055 better?

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John Twigg N12055 SN.79 Pittsburgh, PA (KFWQ)