Fresh off the camera - hanging the wings on Addison Pemberton's Waco EQC-6 in time-lapse.

Bob Jenkins, Jr sent us an update on the projects that he's working on with his father. Bob Jenkins Senior and his Airmaster are regulars at the Blakesburg fly-in, we look forward to seeing it back with new fabric.

My dad and I have the 1928 Command-Aire restoration all finished, just waiting on some FAA paperwork for the first flight. Here is a video of the engine run.

We have been working on a recover job on my dad's 1938 Cessna Airmaster. It has had cotton on it since my dad restored it back in 1974. We have the engine off, the interior out, fabric off and the wing off. My dad's friend Charlie Mormon came by and helped us remove the wing. Here are a few pictures and a link to the online photo album for it.

I also attached a nice picture of all three airplanes at the farm before we began disassembly of the Airmaster.

The wings are rigged and the engine is being hung on Chuck Doyle's Stearman project. See more photos at the Rare Aircraft blog.

Addison Pemberton writes:

We have now finished a very hard push with the decision to do all the really cool wing graphics which included big gold trimmed numbers. This was a ton of work over the last 10 late nights but well worth it as you can see in the photos.

Tuesday night our volunteer work party will HANG and rig the wings!!! More pix this week with an assembled airplane.

So far we are 3500 late night hours into the project and as of last night $137K all costs to date including every sheet of sandpaper, washer and cotter pin. This includes $15,000 in hardware and do-dads from Aircraft Spruce. This is very close to the final cost as there is nothing else to buy but some gas and insurance in the spring.

We are finding that airplane rebuilding costs seem to go up about 30% in parts cost every 5 years. We built my 450 Stearman in 1987 for $28,000. R985 Pratt and Whitney overhaul in 1996 for the Staggerwing was $12,000 today it is $35K.

I wonder what a hot dog will cost in 20 years?

Jed Keck and the folks at Fort Parker Flying Field, Groesbeck, TX, had their first annual "Old Planes at the Old Fort" fly-in on October 1. Here is Terry Bowden's 1946 T-Craft and Tracy Tally's 1941 UPF-7.

Just a little less than a week before we hold our 16th annual "Pumpkin Drop" here at Antique Airfield. At present the weather is predicted to be sunny with a high of 55 and winds from the SSW at 15 mph. Sounds like a great day to come and drop pumpkins! Check out this slo-mo video of a pumpkin's final few seconds, taken at last years event.

Also pictured are last years winning bomb crew (pilot Dallas Grimm & bombadier Luke Pieper) with the much coveted major award presented to each years winner! Let us know if you plan to attend.

And last but not least, who could forget the fun of a B-25 carpet bombing pumpkins in 2004:

A couple of the winners in the Iowa Aviation Photo Contest feature Antique Airfield as the backdrop. Check out the Classic Aircraft section.

This past Saturday Chris Taylor of Sunrise Dusters hosted (his 3rd) fly-in at his duster strip in the booming town of Robbins, CA, where the finest and most dependable antiques showed up. As you can see, the Cubs and Taylorcrafts came in force, a great time and great weather. -Jimmy Rollison

Jimmy Rollison, in Yolo County, CA, sent us a photo of his son Jim, or as Jim puts it the "New and Improved Jim": Here is a photo of my 17 year old son who drives our 31 Model A truck to school and now has about 40 hours in the Pietenpol. He got his license on his 17th birthday back in May. Working on checking Jim out in the STA.