Tom Brown just finished rebuilding and returning Bill Knight's Waco RNF. Tom sent us this with photos from Lyman Hatz:
It has been a long hard pull the last two months getting 603Y finished enough to fly out of here and to Brodhead before the onset of cold weather, and or snow. The first 2 weeks of November really cooperated with higher than average temps. Bill test flew it Monday afternoon Nov. 9th about 3:30 p.m. All told we put four flights on her before dark, adjusting and tweaking between flights.
Next morning, Tuesday the 10th we blasted off for Brodhead with me following chase in the Luscombe watching for parts that might fall off. With a stop at Adams/Friendship for a look over and topping off the tanks it was on to Brodhead. The airplane appears to be about 15 mph faster than it was before rebuild. I'm not bragging, after all it was the slowest RNF in the Western hemisphere. I'm just relieved. Now that it's back home, all Bill and his right hand man Scott Burns have to do is finish those last hundred details.
Tom Brown
