I just got some film developificated
Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:46 am
I just got some film back, thought I'd share. I got to take a Trojan To Lunch a couple of times in the last month or so. I also went to the LVK airport day during that time.
1-5
I got to fly with Dan D to Sac Exec for a lunch. Great time! Almost everyone was there. I saw a Howard. Thats a kinda fugly lookin plane. Not good A-10 fugly, just fugly.
6-14
Airport Day LVK. Dan D and myself flew up and ate lunch at Auburn,(Ohhhhhhhhhh, so much more than lunch, it's like lunch/bonus good deal)and then came back for airport day. Did the high speed break, it rocked, everyone dug it. I met Barrie Snowden. He has a beautiful T-6 and he's building another one. He let me and my brother hang out at his hanger and let me go all over his project and ask a thousand or two annoying questions a week or so ago. He gave me a lot of confidence to start my own project. Between Dan, Barrie, Julie, Allan, and Rob, I have enough confidence to do almost anything. I saw Merlins Magic. It looks like the wings are clipped. An L-39 in Tbird colors was giving rides that day also. I know what happened, and I hope this wasn't the one, but I think it is.
15-23
Willows. We were getting ready to go, and Tony's birds were taking off. The P-40 went and was way out there, catch up problem, No!. The Bearcat went like a bat outta hell, he caught up to the P-40 like it was a 172, pretty awesome sight. It was so fast they did a 270 over the runway together. We went up to Willows, there was forest fires and they were burning off rice. Smelled smoke all the way up, even at 5500'. I learned something new. It was really smokey. We went through the pattern high and kinda long, and then went final. At about 700' it was like being in a fog bank, we busted out in a second or two and landed. You can see the field at 2000', but at 700' or so, there might be a couple problems. If we were at pattern altitude, we would have been blind. I asked everyone what they did coming in, and the aproaches were identical. The lunch was great, I met Ken. I asked Allan who's that? He said thats Ken W. Two seconds later I asked Allan why Kens plane had a KW on the tail and not an NJ like Milhous's plane. He said it's because thats Ken W's plane. I'm a retard. Almost everyone was there. A lotta sea/air stories. I had a great time. The last picture is an arty farty one of clouds, on the way back, I like it anyway.
I'd like to thank Dan Dugan for inviting me to the Take A Trojan to Lunch Bunch rides. I'd like to thank Dan for a lot of stuff, but it'd probably be mushy or extra gay sounding. Just hanging around these men and women is astounding to me. 30, 40 years from now, if you find yourself in east bum f***ed egypt somewhere, and you see a blind no legged idiot beggin for quarters, don't give it to him, it's just me, paying for this very cool life, in my next life.
Too Long winded, nooowwwwww, Pictures!
1-5
I got to fly with Dan D to Sac Exec for a lunch. Great time! Almost everyone was there. I saw a Howard. Thats a kinda fugly lookin plane. Not good A-10 fugly, just fugly.
6-14
Airport Day LVK. Dan D and myself flew up and ate lunch at Auburn,(Ohhhhhhhhhh, so much more than lunch, it's like lunch/bonus good deal)and then came back for airport day. Did the high speed break, it rocked, everyone dug it. I met Barrie Snowden. He has a beautiful T-6 and he's building another one. He let me and my brother hang out at his hanger and let me go all over his project and ask a thousand or two annoying questions a week or so ago. He gave me a lot of confidence to start my own project. Between Dan, Barrie, Julie, Allan, and Rob, I have enough confidence to do almost anything. I saw Merlins Magic. It looks like the wings are clipped. An L-39 in Tbird colors was giving rides that day also. I know what happened, and I hope this wasn't the one, but I think it is.
15-23
Willows. We were getting ready to go, and Tony's birds were taking off. The P-40 went and was way out there, catch up problem, No!. The Bearcat went like a bat outta hell, he caught up to the P-40 like it was a 172, pretty awesome sight. It was so fast they did a 270 over the runway together. We went up to Willows, there was forest fires and they were burning off rice. Smelled smoke all the way up, even at 5500'. I learned something new. It was really smokey. We went through the pattern high and kinda long, and then went final. At about 700' it was like being in a fog bank, we busted out in a second or two and landed. You can see the field at 2000', but at 700' or so, there might be a couple problems. If we were at pattern altitude, we would have been blind. I asked everyone what they did coming in, and the aproaches were identical. The lunch was great, I met Ken. I asked Allan who's that? He said thats Ken W. Two seconds later I asked Allan why Kens plane had a KW on the tail and not an NJ like Milhous's plane. He said it's because thats Ken W's plane. I'm a retard. Almost everyone was there. A lotta sea/air stories. I had a great time. The last picture is an arty farty one of clouds, on the way back, I like it anyway.
I'd like to thank Dan Dugan for inviting me to the Take A Trojan to Lunch Bunch rides. I'd like to thank Dan for a lot of stuff, but it'd probably be mushy or extra gay sounding. Just hanging around these men and women is astounding to me. 30, 40 years from now, if you find yourself in east bum f***ed egypt somewhere, and you see a blind no legged idiot beggin for quarters, don't give it to him, it's just me, paying for this very cool life, in my next life.
Too Long winded, nooowwwwww, Pictures!
Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:54 am
nice P-40 
any news on the L-39?
any news on the L-39?
Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:10 am
"Top Banana in the West"
Aside from being a play on the yellow T-28, I wonder if some Hughes Air West money helped fund that thing anywhere along the way?
Aside from being a play on the yellow T-28, I wonder if some Hughes Air West money helped fund that thing anywhere along the way?
Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:29 am
I loved my T-28D.....
Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:11 am
Nice photos O.P. ... But how can you call the DGA fugly? It more or less looks like a fabric covered DHC-2. We have a number of DGA-15P's up here in MN, and I get out to admire them every chance I get.
Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:30 am
homer wrote:nice P-40
any news on the L-39?
The P-40 sounds cool too. I haven't heard anything about the L-39 since the original posts about it. You'd think they would have ejected from the plane, I hope they did.
Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:31 am
Randy Haskin wrote:"Top Banana in the West"
Aside from being a play on the yellow T-28, I wonder if some Hughes Air West money helped fund that thing anywhere along the way?
It's Julie Clark's airplane. She used to be an airline pilot. Maybe...
Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:34 am
dj51d wrote:Nice photos O.P. ... But how can you call the DGA fugly? It more or less looks like a fabric covered DHC-2. We have a number of DGA-15P's up here in MN, and I get out to admire them every chance I get.
It wasn't what I expected. It was like a big box. Looking at the pictures now, I can see how it would grow on you. Maybe I was a little harsh.