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Two more weeks of the hard brace, then to a soft one! At this point I'm pretty much healed, so I'm actually fighting it, trying to move my head around.

In the meantime I've been gathering things I'll need for the next steps, bits of hardware and crap. I had the wife drive me up to the hangar to drop some of it off and make sure everything was okay - and she was suitably impressed with the state of the aircraft.

Indeed, she didn't realize just how close I am to putting it together.

No picks of the aircraft, so here's some other hardware I picked up:

Hard to believe where the time goes. We are closing in on 4 years since the crash.

Glad to hear you're recovering well! If anyone asks about the scar, tell them you got jumped by a Hun in a dark alley - they look even worse.

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Dart, getting a bit worried. How are you doing ?

Thanks for the call.....just slowly healing.

I love that this thread is in scale modeling. Wish you speedy recovery.

Ok. What happened to Dart?

After his accident in the Nieuport they discovered some underlying issue that made the wreck almost fortuitous. That's Dart's last update from 2023. While I was out today I passed a little airfield and spotted a Vultee BT-13 Valiant just like my dad was training on in Greenville, MS when WW2 ended. I took a few photos, first one of those I've ever seen they seem pretty rare compared to AT6s, and as I was pulling out a pile of something caught my eye. Sitting there was a Graham Lee Nieuport that somebody else had crumpled up almost exactly like Dart did with his. I'm tempted to text my cousin and ask how she'd feel about having a biplane in her back yard. Wishing Dart all the best and hope to hear from him here again at some point. Salute!

Haven’t heard from Dart in a while.

Yeah, I'm a bit worried about him

Anyone got contact info for him?

I spoke to him a couple days back. He is ok. Still wrestling an issue or two, but is better.

Thanks for the update OG, that's really great to hear.

So, it update for everyone, the initial fuse didn’t fuse (5% chance, and I was unlucky), so I was basically walking around for a year with a broken neck.

Attempt #2, this time from the front, and at four months I think it worked. I even stopped smoking to give it the best chance.

This week I’m going out to the airport to see if I am up to doing meaningful work. I figure I should be able to trammel an upper wing okay.

It makes me crazy that if I could work full time on her she’d most likely be in the air in about two weeks.

Dang dude! Good to hear from you, hope you're really on the mend this time! Prayers!

I sure hope the fusion takes this time. Good on ya' with stopping the smoking. Along with the health benefits, that ought to have freed up some discretionary $pending.

Nice to hear from you, man. Hope your day job isn't giving you crap about the injury and you are doing generally okay.

You'll get her flying soon enough

Best to ya Dart. I have been thru my share of med issues in the last year, hint, my new nickname is stentman.

Hang in there man and keep on keepin on.

Good to hear from you again Dart., Hope this go around with the doctors is successful.


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Have you been able to get any work on your Bebe recently Dart?


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