Wayne,
Your last nosewheel shimmy post contains two excellent ideas, requiring hand moving and painting on nose gear turn limits. When I lived in Iowa City, the only hangar space available was the huge community hangar. My plane was moved around from time to time as other planes were brought out. When you aren't there, it works its way toward the back row. We pilots moved our own planes some and let the line "boy" move the others. As you say, the Coupe is very easy to move by hand and they had no trouble doing so when I wasn't there. I don't know whether or not they ever used the tug. The only trouble I had was when I stopped in front of the hangar after a flight once. The idiot fuel truck driver had driven inside the hangar to fuel a plane. Even though there was gobs of space, he backed out of the hangar, turning gently in such a way that he never saw my plane. He backed right into the right wing, very slowly, ruining the wing. I just stood there, marveling. When a bad thing is bad enough, it just doesn't merit curse words. Then I decided I just had to let him know the magnitude of his sin. So I ran to the front of his truck, screamed and cursed and pounded on the hood of his truck. I don't think I frothed at the mouth. He jumped out and ran to get the airport manager who tried to give me a hard time for denting his truck hood (with my hand). I smiled sweetly and promised to pay for fixing his truck hood and explained that I thought the guy needed to have it explained that he had done wrong. He admitted that I had convinced the guy. They bought me a freshly recovered and painted wing from Skyport and installed it with no fuss (and no bill for the truck hood). Yeah, shared hangars do have some risk. Ed
