Aero-TV: Historically Unique - Marlin Horst's Exquisite Fairchild 71
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Exotic Rebuild Reveals Aerial Work Of Art
During EAA AirVenture 2014, ANN's Michael Maya Charles took the time to get a history lesson about a great airplane from days gone by.
By 1929 aviation was being recognized for its ability to transport people and cargo to areas that were extremely hard to get to. This led the Fairchild Company to come up with a single engine transport plane known as the Fairchild 71.
ANN's roving reporter met up with Marlin Horst who was responsible for the restoration of one of these classic Fairchild's. In this video, Horst recounts the massive project of first locating an airplane as rare as this, and then bringing it to a better than factory-new status.
The Fairchild 71 is a large airplane with unique features that made it suitable to fly into hard to get to places. Horst points out that it was an important airplane in opening up access to America' remote northern frontier. As you watch the video you'll see details of the airplane, including the ability to fold its wings. The video is a testament to the determination of Horst to get this magnificent airplane back in the air, and you'll get a real taste of what it must've been like when this airplane was in service.
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Beautiful restoration. Because of people like you air shows become magical in the ability to see history in all its glory .
Today April 23, 2017 is the 80th anniversary of an accident in which my uncle Colonel Jorge Marcano flying a Fairchild 71 over the jungles of the Cuyuni River in southern Venezuela managed to land the plane over the treetops when the fuel was exhausted because of an inadvertent leak. Despite suffering serious injuries, he and the rest of the passengers, except one, survived. Thank you for this beautiful video that allowed me to approach the memory of my dear Uncle Jorge.
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Please tell me someone interviewed him.
I had a ride in a Fairchild 71 as a boy. What a neat airplane! I traveled the fly-in circuit with my father in his airplane meeting lots of wonderful people with equally rare and unique airplanes. I was fortunate to get to fly or fly in lots of magnificently restored vintage airplanes and some not so rare but equally cool. Thanks dad for my gift of wings!
Exquisite craftsmanship. The interior with gold striping, etc. is downright exciting.
Appreciate your testimony, bro...!!!
Man I’d love to take a ride in that thing!
Excellent... Thanks for posting a great little Vid...! Gordon
Touché to this awesome 'rebirth' - unique indeed!
A beautiful aeroplane and a great story to go with it, thanks for sharing.
Lovely, thank you for the video ANN
a real beauty!