The
Hintenlang Hangar
Welcome to Dave and Kathleen Hintenlang's Hangar. Different parts of the
hangar illustrate some of our personal and professional activities.
This is where we live: 
The kids have their own corner of the hangar! They usually hang out
at kidscorner.htm
The Airplanes!
I am currently building an Acrosport 2 like the one pictured below. The
plane in the picture was built by Frank Johnson. Mine has a long way to
go. The basic fuselage structure is welded and on the gear, and all of
the wing ribs and control fittings are built. I'm currently installing
part of the control system. I find the photo below to be great inspiration!
1989 Acro Sport Two
More details on this plane can be found at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/FJohnson/
Our daughter, Lauren, is enjoying the view from the cockpit - but you
can see that there is plenty of work to do before it starts to shape up
like the completed plane above. Click on the photo to see other
construction photos and the current progress being made on my plane!
A number of other builders and Acrosport resources can
be found on my Acrosport
Homepage!
Avid Flyers
Here is the Avid Flyer that I built. It has been flying for about 4 1/2
years and is a fun little airplane. It has great short landing and take-off
characteristics requiring less than 200 ft ground roll, and climbs out
very quickly. It cruises at 80 mph - so its not the fastest way to get
somewhere, but great for enjoying the scenery.
For some in-flight pictures and more on my Avid Flyer visit avidpage.htm
, or click on the picture above.
Links to some other Avid Flyer sites!
http://avidair.com
Piper Challenger
Here is our Piper Challenger - A late version of the Cherokee 180 prior
to becoming the Archer. This is our family plane, capable of fitting
everyone and cruising at a moderate 120 kts, and is quite economical to
operate. This is an in the hangar/ rainy day picture - a better one
is on the way!
Before we got the Challenger, the family airplane was a Cessna 210.
The 210 is a high performance, retractable gear, single engine aircraft.
This is a 1960 model, the first year that Cessna began producing the 210.
It is similar to a Cessna 180 with a swept tail and retractable gear. It
is a very nice flying aircraft with significantly lighter controls, particularly
in pitch, than the later 210's. It is fully IFR (instrument flight rules)
equipped and cruises at 150 knots. Its a great plane for going places,
but not very cheap to operate.
Here is why the Cessna 210 is no longer our family airplane!
It met it's match with a tornado in Jacksonville, FL last summer
while on a transient stop (talk about the wrong place at the wrong time!).
You may notice the tail of another damaged plane to the right. About
a half dozen planes were totaled by the tornado. Believe it or not
- this picture shows only a small amount of the damage.
Follow the EAA Chapter 98 link to see what other folks around the Gainesville,
Florida area are doing with their airplanes!
EAA
Chapter 98
Comments can be directed to us at:
dhinten@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu
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