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Full scale flyers....roll call. - 1/10/2004 1:25:40 AM   
Flyboy Dave



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Status: offline 		Full scale flyers....current or not....

....lets check-in, and see all you Guys and Gals. Post a pic too !

That's me on the left back in the '80's. Me and the other Guy, Lloyd
worked together as motorcycle mechanics, side by side for 14 yrs.
We were both former Marines as well. We went in, and bought the
150. We had a blast flying around to the m/c races and such....

Dave.

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RE: Full scale flyers....roll call. - 1/10/2004 1:36:19 AM   
henryhighwood



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Status: offline 		I'm checking in. I have no pictures handy, but fly a Baron when work and RC doesn't get in the way.

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RE: Full scale flyers....roll call. - 1/10/2004 1:59:42 AM   
ShoestringRacer


 

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Status: offline 		Piper Arrow pilot checking, level one zero ten thousand. Here are some pics of the model field and Block Island, RI.

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RE: Full scale flyers....roll call. - 1/10/2004 2:36:29 AM   
Live Wire


 

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RE: Full scale flyers....roll call. - 1/10/2004 2:50:09 AM   
LearjetMech


 

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Status: offline 		RC, let me guess a C-150F and wow you flew Air combat USA!! You lucky devil.

Anyway, Flew as much as I could in college. Kinda ran outta money, got a good job, now no time. Plus my wifes father flew United 32 years (B727). I had mentioned I wanted to start flying again and she about killed me. I said ok honey, I'll just get some RC planes. She was happy about that! So I stick to fixin em'. Get a test flight here and there! In college got time in a 150, 172, 172RG, Tomahawk, Warrior, Archer, Luscombe L8A, Mooney, Aztec, Skybolt, and a Waco UPF-7.

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RE: Full scale flyers....roll call. - 1/10/2004 3:24:32 AM   
FLYBOY



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Status: offline 		Hi guys. I am Ed, live in Montana and fly anything I can. I am building a full scale Long EZ, modified of course, and I fly a C-320 currently. Used to fly a Westwind which I put a picture up on, but the company decided they didn't want to fly anymore and the other company I flew jets for kept putting me on the road for months and I got tired of hotels. The 320 is a blast. We do Aerial Photography and I get to see some of the coolest sights in the country and if I want to detour to look at something, the boss usually doesn't say much. Never got to do that in the jet. Its all fun though. Been barrel rolled by one of Rutans test pilots in the EZs, which was pretty cool too.

Lots of fun stories. Its all good!

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RE: Full scale flyers....roll call. - 1/10/2004 3:44:58 AM   
Live Wire


 

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RE: Full scale flyers....roll call. - 1/10/2004 4:21:18 AM   
Johnnylightning



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Status: offline 		Soloed at 15 years of age in 1981. C152 N757VC. Private, exactly 1yr later. I'll look for pix.

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RE: Full scale flyers....roll call. - 1/10/2004 4:22:32 AM   
taildragger21



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Status: offline 		Got one here..........er student pilot and avid rc pilot. The extra isn't mine of course...It's a friend of mine's.I cant even afford a c-150..but hey it's fun...... I love aviation in all aspects. I will never come out of my blood..[image][/image]

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RE: Full scale flyers....roll call. - 1/10/2004 4:35:28 AM   
Live Wire


 

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< Message edited by RC Outlaw -- 1/10/2004 4:58:04 PM >

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RE: Full scale flyers....roll call. - 1/10/2004 4:37:06 AM   
RaceCity



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Status: offline 		Race here...

5000hrs hauling bank mail and creepy things extracted from human beings in big boxes labeled
"biohazard" in my trusty (usually) C-210

Then there's the occasional "clean" work hauling living people in C-90/F-90/B200 King Air.

I can hardly remember the last hour I flew that wasn't in the middle of the night.

Race.

"FLX551'

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RE: Full scale flyers....roll call. - 1/10/2004 4:42:30 AM   
Live Wire


 

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RE: Full scale flyers....roll call. - 1/10/2004 5:07:12 AM   
cropdusterdave


 

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Status: offline 		Started flying when I was 15. As the name implies...spent the last 5 years drivin' ag planes (G164B ag cat, AT301, C-188, Weatherly 620) Lots of hard, risky work and time away from loved ones for less than impressive pay...but I loved it. The aviation job marketplace is looking pretty pathetic right now so I took a full time job at my air national guard unit as a F-16 hydraulic technician. Cooshy govt. gig! I'm now building a Van's RV-7 to keep the candles lit...although I do miss the insanity of operating a rediculously overloaded aircraft in close proximity to immovable objects while traveling at a high rate of speed with toxic chemical flowing from the fiberglass hopper stuffed in my face while feeding future tumors and flying under powerlines and making women and children cry. But hey, I actually have time to play with my RC's again! (which is just as good)

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RE: Full scale flyers....roll call. - 1/10/2004 5:23:33 AM   
GrnBrt



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Status: offline 		Well I solo'd at 16 down at Santa Monica on a 172 and flew a 150 most of the time, no pictures though and a darn long story. the Army and Viet-Nam interrupted it all and they wanted to make me a rotorhead and dumb me said no thanks and went Special forces. damn go figure. Well I flew a bit afterwards and got to fly with Fitz Fulton in his 172 out of Mojave a few times, what a pilot he was! I haven't flown since the 70's and a medical is keeping out of it, not to mention funds!


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