Whoops, my bad...thanks to all of you guys!!
Tom, my dad was an engineer with Norfolk Southern for 30+ years until his retirement about 5 years ago...so I have a soft spot for trains as well
Mike
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| Author: | Tom Moungovan [ Sat May 10, 2008 2:20 pm ] |
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Around 9:30A this morning, Frank Schelling's 1918 Curtiss Jenny took off from the grass runway @ Schellville, CA and landed on the grass runway @ nearby Sonoma Skypark to attend a Tayorcraft fly-in. A real treat to see this machine in the air. I am in his debt for the consideration that he showed. |
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| Author: | Roger Cain [ Sun May 11, 2008 1:31 am ] |
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What, no pictures??? |
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| Author: | Tom Moungovan [ Sun May 11, 2008 9:28 am ] |
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Apologies to Roger and anyone else, but I have not yet succumbed to the digital age...and may never when it comes to a camera. Give me patience and I will try to get to a scanner sometime and share some of my late dads PanAm slides and some of my own. In the meanwhile, I did want to mention this event here as the Jenny is such a beautiful aircraft. Heck, they all are! Roger, maybe you could please dig this one out from your archives to show? |
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| Author: | Roger Cain [ Sun May 11, 2008 11:53 am ] |
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Hi Tom, just razzing you. It's been posted here on this site a few times in the past, Mike Shreeve was there yesterday, so maybe he'll post some pictures. For now, Mike has some recent pictures posted on PlaneTalk at: http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=6001 I didn't get to Sonoma Skypark until about 2:00 yesterday, went to the Hiller Aviation Museum's Trainer Days display earlier in the morning. |
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| Author: | clipper314 [ Sun May 11, 2008 5:49 pm ] |
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Spectacular photos, Tom...thanks for sharing them! Mike |
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| Author: | Tom Moungovan [ Sun May 11, 2008 9:47 pm ] |
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clipper314 wrote: Spectacular photos, Tom...thanks for sharing them!
Mike You are welcome, but it's Roger & Mike who were good enough to share the photos. Both do great aviation photography...I'm still learning this after 42 years or so of shooting railroad subjects! |
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| Author: | clipper314 [ Sun May 11, 2008 11:21 pm ] |
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Whoops, my bad...thanks to all of you guys!! Tom, my dad was an engineer with Norfolk Southern for 30+ years until his retirement about 5 years ago...so I have a soft spot for trains as well
Mike |
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| Author: | Mike [ Mon May 12, 2008 11:38 am ] |
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Here are a couple of the Jenny's departure from Skypark to return to Schellville, in a stiff crosswind. 
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| Author: | Jerry O'Neill [ Mon May 12, 2008 3:15 pm ] |
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Thanks for posting those photos. Ever since my first trip to Old Rhinebeck in the early 1970's, I've always loved the Jenny! Jerry |
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| Author: | Mike [ Mon May 12, 2008 6:19 pm ] |
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Yes, it's a very nice aeroplane indeed! 
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| Author: | Robbie Roberts [ Mon May 12, 2008 10:03 pm ] |
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I hate to ask- but is this a reproduction, or the real deal? It is a gorgeous aircraft in any event- Robbie |
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| Author: | Roger Cain [ Mon May 12, 2008 10:38 pm ] |
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This is the real thing, with a Hispano-Suiza engine |
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| Author: | Canso42 [ Sat May 24, 2008 5:58 pm ] |
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Nice to see an old Hisso at full bellow again. I have some pix I'll try to scan of Jay Leno's Spanish-Swiss sports car with an ex-Nieuport V-8 . Tom M and Clipper 314, I spent seven years as a locomotive engr. with Santa Fe down in Texas before getting downsized in the mid eighties. WIXer Warhawk is a train buff too. I have published about forty tall stories (famous snafu's) of my rail days. A friend in Palestine, Tx. who's a train and warbird buff has them all now and they should be email ready. Doug Ratchford 'Canso42' |
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| Author: | clipper314 [ Sat May 24, 2008 8:24 pm ] |
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Hey Doug, I would love to read them! I've always liked the paint schemes on the Santa Fe's. Hope you have a nice Memorial Day weekend! Mike |
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| Author: | Robbie Roberts [ Sun May 25, 2008 12:59 am ] |
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Roger Cain wrote: This is the real thing, with a Hispano-Suiza engine
I didn't think there were any of those left! Thought the government had converted them all to kindling years ago, under the CAA. Looks GREAT! Robbie |
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