Hampton Fly-Market Fly-In

Went down to Hampton New Hampshire today for the annual Fly-market. For my non aviation friends it is a flea-market/boot sale for aviation stuff. Scored a few goodies for my Jodel project. A nose-bowl for 10 $, a Whitman Tailwind tail-wheel, spring and steering arm for 20$ and a small Denso 40 amp alternator for 50$

The usual suspects were all there and the same junk we see every year. So no pix of the stuff for sale but a few interesting planes were there. What has to be my all time favorite a Curtiss Robbin from the 1920s.

The ever-present J-3 Cubs

Supercubs and Bird-dogs abounded on the flight line.

and a few more looking the other way

A Cessna Bird-dog with a gnarly paint job.

A mongrel experimental made up of a Piper Pacer fuselage, and wings from who knows what.

A delta wing weight shift trike . . . .

  . . . with a Yamaha crotch-rocket engine.

the redrive for the rig

A slick looking Euro-Fox

I always look for interesting details and a few were to be had in the wheel fairing department. In this case a neat looking mudguard on a Cub.

and an Alaskan mud flap on a Cessna 180

 someone even had a 1/2 VW engine for sale

the back side shows the cut case and block off plate

I always have a soft spot for a well pampered Stinson 108-3, circa 1947?

An other interesting experimental mongrel made up of a 1960s Cessna 150 fuselage, Cessna 140 wings, Taylorcraft cowling? hiding a 150 hp engine, and a home made empenage making it all look like a baby Cessna 180. Must be a fun performer.

And then there was this all composite aerobatic monster that came roaring in about 11 am

But the Aircoupe is more my style

A shiny Sonex with a Jabiru engine was there

And a lovely 1940s Piper Pacer undergoing the finishing touches of a total restoration.

In the same shop a sweet looking engine being rebuilt for a total restoration on a WW-1 Fokker DVII

A snappy looking Citabria

and a golden topped RV4

and some more R-amp V-ermin

A Bell 47 stirs the dust up on a Lexus, note the old truck seems to ward it off well.

a mousy looking LSA

A Rotax powered Challenger

And a lovely Waco Travelair