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Title: Silhavy Nobler will fly again. pics.
Post by: Allen Goff on April 06, 2016, 05:29:56 PM

A friend of mine bought 10 airplanes and 6 big boxes of tanks, wheels, spinners, mufflers, tuned pipes, props, engines and so much more from the estate sale of the late John Davis. Two of the airplanes were Noblers, one belonged to John and the other was built and flown by Jim Silhavy. Here are a couple pictures from the rebuilds. I have John's plane done and Jims is in the works and should be finished by next weekend. Enjoy the pics.

Blessings
Allen

Title: Re: Silhavy Nobler will fly again. pics.
Post by: Allen Goff on April 06, 2016, 05:30:48 PM

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Title: Re: Silhavy Nobler will fly again. pics.
Post by: Allen Goff on April 06, 2016, 05:39:29 PM

The late John Davis Nobler before and after..
Both airplanes will / are powered by Brodak .40
John's Nobler came in at 41 ozs. ready to fly.

Title: Re: Silhavy Nobler will fly again. pics.
Post by: Zuriel Armstrong on April 06, 2016, 06:00:39 PM

Very cool planes. Were these built from scratch or kits of the day?
I think it's great they are being restored to flight again.

Title: Re: Silhavy Nobler will fly again. pics.
Post by: Crist Rigotti on April 06, 2016, 09:49:33 PM

Allen,
Very nice job as usual.  Thanks for caring enough to preserve some history!

Title: Re: Silhavy Nobler will fly again. pics.
Post by: Curt D Contrata on April 07, 2016, 08:52:32 PM

I met Jim Silhavy once, knew John fairly well.
I've missed John since he passed.

Allen, do you have his SV's too?

Curt