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Old 09-02-2006, 08:14 AM
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Old 09-05-2006, 03:22 PM
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Hey, can visitors fly there during the week if we have AMA with us??? (and an airplane, of course...)

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sure you can fly as a guest even on the weekend
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Man, I'd love to fly at FBF.Our planned "vacation" next year is to NYC, my daughter has some kind of dance thing there. Supposedly we're staying within a couple of blocks of Times Square, and my wife wants to take Amtrak there (from NC). I wonder if I can pack up a plane to survive the train trip, and if a taxi will haul it to the field? Well, at least I can come and watch. Who knows, Wrong Way Corrigan's ghost might breathe down my neck
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Thanks, Vinny. I might be coming down to do some work in Jamaica Bay next week. If I do, and if there's room in the truck, I'll pack my Twist. That'd be fun... Gotta find my way there from Lynnwood.

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Vinny, where is the best entrance to FBF? Is it off of Flatbush or somewhere off the beltway? I might be there tomorrow afternoon - can't be sure.
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take the belt parkway get off at flatbush ave south the main gate in on your left right before the marine parkway bridge
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I'll try to make it over there. Thanks for those directions. Looks like no plane this trip, but hopefully in a couple of weeks...... I just want to walk around the place a little bit....

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After reading/hearing about FBF, I finally got over there.....nice site!
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I was there myself yesterday (Sept 13). Met the guys, great group... Very, very interesting backgrounds....

I didn't realize that the entire airport was part of the National Park Service now. I got some information at the main building about the field during its civilian and its military history...

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glad you made it down there is alot of history at FBF
we are very lucky to fly out of FBF the club has been flying there
for around 30 yrs
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flying 9/8/07 not models but real aircraft
it is floyd bennetts 75 yrs anniversary
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Blacvet I am trying a long shot here please bear with me I grew up in Brooklyn, In the Fort Green Projects and went to my first model contest in the late fifties at Floyd Bennet Field And right now am having memory flashbacks. I am looking for some old friends from the projects mainly my controline mentor, JOE REESE. he had a bird he called the batplane by any chance you could help me find him.


thanks in advance
B. N. Donohue

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