Casselton Bob Miller Municipal Airport with Bob Miller and EAA317

We pried ourselves away from the War Bird restoration world and met Captain Bob Miller at his amazing hangar at Casselton Bob Miller Municipal Airport, which included more Grand Champion award winning aircraft. Starting with Bob’s immaculate log books, test flight reports, and builder’s records, through to his meticulous workmanship and innovative design elements, and finishing with his tools left in precise order…we were speechless! The EAA Chapter members joined us in awe as we learned numerous tips, a few examples were how Bob:

·         balanced his elevators to precision;

·         added an access door to service the brake cylinders;

·         moved the electronics to the front side of the firewall for easier maintenance;

·         camouflaged the cowl hinge pin; and

·         sprayed black paint on the fiberglass weave, allowed it to bake in the sun for a few hours before sanding the paint off and then prepping the piece for paint – so the fiberglass weave wouldn’t show through the paint!

"Bob Miller increased the height of his RV 8's back turtle deck, which resulted in designing and manufacturing modified rear interior bulkheads, redesign the aluminum plate on the upper rear fuselage, and redesigning the sliding canopy! The results were the work of a master craftsman." Bob Stewart

This was just the beginning of Bob’s collection…his hangar is like a “Toys-R-Us” for pilots! It is no wonder that John at Tri State Aviation and Brent Meester at Odegaard Wings both started out working with Bob! We ended the evening having dinner with Bob and Janice Miller, along with the EAA Chapter and Fargo Air Museum volunteers with slides of Bob’s award winning RV and RV video clips on the big screen.