Pilots-airplanes-landing strips

There is a high concentration of the above around Wray, CO. I was wondering if that was typical.
Thanks!!

Just havin fun

The Nut

Now own a PA-17 Vagabond and a Rearwin Cloudster project plane. I had heart surgery in 2004 and haven't gotten my medical back but am flying on the Sport Pilot rules. You guys that have lost your medicals should consider this option. As long as you are licensed to drive a car and can pass your BFR every two years you can fly a sport pilot rated 2-place airplane. The early Champs, Cubs (including the Vagabond), Luscombe 8As and early Ercoupes all qualify under that rule. There are many new sport pilot aircraft on the market now too, but they are too expensive for me.

Joe

Larry Coltrin

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Kestrel 'n CT e-mail: cnash860@comcast.net

We sure can't offend anyone, now can we? :>)

I say if they have a towel wrapped around their head, give 'em the boot and let decent people get on with their normal daily lives.

Now, we'll cover the subject of those entering while passing gas from eating too many portions of re-fried beans in the next chapter. :>)

Allan

Mother nature tries to flush her toilet, which by the way has been overdue for generations now and the press paints it as being George's fault.

I'll bet that man can't wait to hit the highway in a couple of years. Let Nancy with the large mouth fix it.

'Course we all know where the funding will originate. :>(

Allan

They were all tough back then. Now, we have people taking off their shoes at airports and having their spare underware inspected.

FDR was right; whatever happened to good old-fashioned racial profiling anyway?

If it looks, acts, walks and talks like a duck, it's probably a damned duck. :>)

Allan

Something to think about.

I had a friend that spent 35yrs at Boeing, was a flyer at a young age and always had his own plane. When he retired from Boeing he built a new home on a private air park of 50 homes.

George's son was a commerical pilot for 20yrs.

George's 2nd son was a fully qualifed pilot of 15yrs.

Son #1 was at the controls that day when a neighbor took his air space, they think!

Goerge died at 72yrs old, #1 son will never fly commerical aircraft again and took 4 yrs in the hospital to recover then as far as I know still in therophy after 15yrs. Son #2 went back to work off and on for 5yrs out of the 15yrs but couldn't take the pain.

Each son had 4 childeren. Had #1 son and George had not had excellant insurance, All the family's would be broke.

Georges wife of 50yrs was standing on the porch watching when George hit the ground. I don't think she ever returned to the house after the accident. She sold the house.

One of the last commerical filghts I was on was in the Bering Sea on St. Thomas Island where we landed to take on fuel. We started to taxi from the side area onto the main gravel runway when we made a very sharp left hand 180º turn as a 707 touched down.

Now there's only two planes in 1000 square miles of air space and my pilot and co-pilot miss seeing a 707 trying to land. Another 15ft and I wouldn't be here telling you this story now.

A jet landing on a gravel runway??? I didn't think they did that.

Just between you and me, you couldn't get me on another airplane of any type!

T_Bone

Run a Small FBO GGI in Grinnell IA. 5200ft of fun Restoring a J3, own A Cherokee for training, Building a Kelly D (Hatz derivitive), Am working on purchasing a Meyers OTW right now. I will be asking for donations for the OTW.

No plane no license but fly often with the neighboring airport. Its a blacktop runway.

You can see the plane landing while I'm raking hay.

I've never landed a plane but have taken off the ground while piloting.

Gary

Not able to fly as much as I want. My goal in life is to buy 80 acres, put a 2,000 foot strip right down the middle of it, and fly my own aircraft off of it and farm the rest with antique equipment. I recently became interested in homebuilts (my neighbor airline pilot is building one in his basement) and I might even give that a try; the two I am most interested in now are the Savannah (www.skykits.com) and the STOL 701 (www.zenithair.com). Both look like they would be perfect for a grass strip.

When I look on Google Earth, I'm surprised at the number of grass strips that are around. Several are in the area where I used to hang out while growing up-they were there then, too, but I just didn't know what I was looking at.

It makes me wonder what kind of classic aircraft are sitting around in old barns and hangars on the farms-cubs, aeroncas, etc.

Silly neighbors refer to it as the "county road" fer some reason. :>)

Allan

....was that on the road to Hooterville?

Man....it's always an adventure here.....!!!

Mike