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Wife and I are off to Australia for 3 weeks to visit our youngest daughter. Farm is left in my nephews capable hands. Goodbye ice and snow!

Ben
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That scene brings back lots of memories. Instructor who got me through to a pilots license has a Cub. I got quite a few rides in it. Got a tail wheel endorsement with it. I can't get in and out of it now. It was difficult enough then! Many many times he would land here, we'd visit, and I would crank it up for him. The nicest ride I ever had was on a hot summer day, with the window/door open.
 
Who is gonna drive the school bus, Ben? I know that school is out the coming week for March break, but what about the following 2 weeks? Lol
 
I wonder how many people know that the wire in front of the windscreen is the gas gauge!!!! When it got about an inch above the cap I started getting a little concerned!
 
Safe travels Ben! Our Pastor and his wife spent all of January there with their daughter and family. It?s pretty hot there right now.
 
My brother bought his cub SC. Then flew it across country , following route 66 for the most part. His wife followed in a rental RV. Then they took wings off and shipped it to Australia. Beautiful little plane. Couple years later he bought a Piper Lance and did the same thing. He has a hanger and grass strip on his farm down under. He ain't never moving back here! Lol
 
I enjoyed Sidney and the out back but up out from CAINES we took a train ride up and cable car back, thru the rain forest. Supposed to be one of the longest suspended cable trams in the world. Definitely a must do if you are in the area.
 
If I could take a Star Trek transporter to get there I’d like to go. I just don’t think I could handle being on a plane that long and CERTAINLY not a boat.

Hope you have a great trip and it lives up to all your expectations.

-Scott
 
Kevin I have close to 50 hours bootleg hours in a Clipped wing Cub . I've flown a lot of different aircraft but never got my license including a Stearman biplane with a 450 Pratt and Whitney. Also an a hour in in a two seat P 51 Mustang. Have a friend in the aircraft restoration business. Years ago I would hang out at his hanger and catch a ride in whatever he was working one at the time. Good friend of mine is a retired air show pilot he taught be more about flying in a few years than most pilots learn in a lifetime of flying. And yes you can ski a Stearman Biplane across a lake on the tires if you know what your doing. I have been blessed with being in the right place at the right time over the years.
 
Sure sounds like it! Personally I don't like flying. I'm the odd ball in the family. Dad, brother,and sister are all pilots.
 
My brother, an Army lifer, went to Ft. Rucker, AL for his fixed-wing license. Joke there was, aviators fly by instruments, pilots follow the roads....
 
Just don?t end up on a why planes crash episode and you?ll be fine . I?ll probably never get to see Australia because I won?t fly
 
In the spring of 1961 I got to visit Hobart, Adelade, Melborne. and Brisbane on a tin can courtsey of my rich Uncle. Only place west of the Colorado River I would not mind going back and seeing again. Then we got to spend six months all over WesPac. Saw Vietnam on a radar screen as we chased a carrier around.
 
Australia and maybe New Zealand are the two places that might get me to leave the USA for a vacation. Australia is so big it seems like it would take a couple of months and a good vehicle to see much of it. It seems like such an interesting place though.
 
There is a Cub somewhere with my finger prints embedded in the structure tubing..was riding while pilot was practicing stalls. Leo
 
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