Addison Pemberton of Spokane, WA, sent this photo and news:
This is a great shot George Perks took of me and Larry Tobin last weekend. Larry's C3B is up and happy again. In July Larry's C3B suffered a landing drag tube failure due to an original fitting that was poorly repaired years ago. This is also the airplane that wrapped itself around a tree in 2008 in the Columbia Gorge.
Larry was able to repair the airplane in record time (again) after splicing the lower left wing spar and rebuilding the left gear. This picture of my 1931 4CM Sr Speedmail NC495W and Larry's (oldest Stearman flying) 1927 Stearman C3B NC3440 really turns the clock back to a time when these airplanes owned the skies.
