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Originally Posted by Matt_in_VA,Jul 5 2006, 07:03 PM
If you ever "need excess baggage" for a check flight let me know. I would be more than willing to provide the extra weight.
Ill deffinatly keep that in mind. If this training in the Doiner is delayed or shortened a little a bunch of us will be going up to Oshkosh in a DC-3. You are more than welcome to come with and get a little stick time in the beast. BUT because of the training we probably wont be going this year.. Ill let you know matt.
And on July 10th im going to school for a Donier 328 Jet
And I also have alot of time in a Pitts S2C and Piper Cub, so I guess I made my transition to tailwheel aircraft. Heres my pic I posted in another thread... Ill share with you all! (I bought the cub on the right last year)
Hey you didn't tell me at BeaverRun you had a Cub We could have swapped stories about my flight in a J2 which had not flown in 5 years I ferried it from Toronto to Hamilton and it has not flown since (no the landing was fine it was the dry rot in the spar )
What? No pics or posts in this thread since 2006? But it started out so strong!
The Pitts always gets my blood flowing, let's see if it can do the same for this thread!
The first two images were taken by my girlfriend during her first air to air photoshoot (also using my camera for the first time). I think she did a fantastic job!
Just after my checkout in the Stearman:
The toybox at Metz:
Fi-156 Storch replica:
The next shots are screen grabs from my helmet camera, so they are low quality, but fun:
Wow, I forgot about this thread, and I even started it! Still have not flown since 2006. Gene, you're a pilot aren't you?
Near Napa is Vacaville and Icon Aircraft, who builds sport planes, is moving there soon. I will take a look when they start pumping them out, but just for curiosity, not for purchase.
Great thread, did not know it was here. Wish I was more of a light airplane pilot. Took a bath in a failed business and so I lost my chance to build an airplane. Was going for a Kitfox.
Anyway, here are some aviation shots I had in photo bucket:
Wow, I forgot about this thread, and I even started it! Still have not flown since 2006. Gene, you're a pilot aren't you?
Near Napa is Vacaville and Icon Aircraft, who builds sport planes, is moving there soon. I will take a look when they start pumping them out, but just for curiosity, not for purchase.
Yep, but like you, have not flown as PIC since 2007, when we sold our Cessna 177RG. I also have a few rotary wing hours, compliments of our Uncle, who kindly gave me an all expense paid year long "vacation" in sunny Southeast Asia, way back in 69/70.
I recently got a chance to experience what it feels like to fly the big stuff, as my next door neighbor, who is a simulator instructor in C-5M's at nearby Dover Air Force Base, let me fly the sim for about an hour. Since this is a full-motion simulator, it was exactly like flying the real thing. I'm sure he took it easy on me (no V1 cuts, etc.), but I made 2 successful take-offs and landings, with the last landing much better than the first! Also got to fly the approach into Honolulu as well as back into Dover.
PS: Cosmo, my neighbor^ is a retired United 777 captain, who regularly flew to Europe before he retired.
Going back and reading this thread from the beginning just served to remind me how much I enjoy and miss flying. The last time I was in a plane it was a 1929 Ford Tri-Plane. Then I realized that this year's S2K Days conflicts with Oshkosh .
We encourage preVints (those under 40) to post in Vintage. Glad you did!
We could have swapped stories about my flight in a J2 which had not flown in 5 years I ferried it from Toronto to Hamilton and it has not flown since (no the landing was fine it was the dry rot in the spar 
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