Another oldie...

[Leo]

Re: Another oldie...

I've got pics of it in the Aerosport hangar (Chino) in '74. I'll have to look at the wings...

[John]

Re: Another oldie...

From the time Dr. Cliff bought N79111 in 1967, through 1974, the wings were polished metal. They filled and painted them white in 1975 and it stayed that way through 1978. I can promise you it had nothing to do with paying homage to the 'heritage' of the N-number...it was purely a Supe Hoisington deal to try to make a better wing surface and profile.

When Wiley bought the plane they stripped the paint and bondo off the wings, fixed all the stuff that was wrong with it during 10 years of Dr. Cliff racing it...and then promptly went 25 mph faster than it had ever gone before, even with the filled/painted wings.

Call that an 'opinion' if you'd like, but.....it's how it happened.

Apologies Big Jim as I was hoping to hear you take on it. Those years were before my experience at Reno.