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Hi Bev.
We're getting in the mood here in NJ too. The weather has finally decided to get out of the March-Winds, April Showers syndrome, and get to acceptable flying wind and weather.
I was in Bradenton for the past week, had a great week. Weather was absolutely perfect. On Saturday last, I went to Sarasota Flying Club. They were having a big-bird event with an air show. We had a blast. Now that I finally OWN a pace down here rather than renting a small apartment, I am going to get a plane for Florida use only.. perhaps a Goldberg Skylark 70 or something like that. I have one here in NJ and it's great.
Anyway, that's our update from the Northeast.. and Irish gave you one from Michigan.. so we're beginning to thaw out from perma-frost and it's getting much better!!!
Later.
CGr (Dick).
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Hi Bev,
Good to see you about on here, I have not been about that much lately. That Katana looks good, I hope to see pictures of it completed. Just want to say if that muffler is off a 46 AX and you have the front half then keep it, as I know that they cost a lot and I have know several people who have needed just a front half, they get holed real easy when they hit the ground at 90+.
Have fun
James
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Gentlemen,
It's been kinda hectic lately, but I just have to report on our latest Night Fly last Saturday. We haven't had one since March of 2007, and I asked if our MPPA club could put another together. Well, I was named the Contest Director for the event..(unofficial, since I don't have 3 years in yet) I was thrilled, and even though we had a monsoon 2 hours before the beginning of the Night Fly, it went off without a hitch, the rain cleared out and stayed away, and we had a blast!!!! It gets dark here in the summer around 9 PM and the planes were airborne soon after. Not as many crashes this time around...some of our pilots are really good at night flying. The last of us were still out there with David's plane in the air well after 2AM and we cleared out of the park at 3 AM
We used the same setup as before.....red, green, and yellow glow sticks for the port, starboard, and rudder of our planes, and blue glow sticks to light the runway!
I am proud to announce that after a warm up flight on David Storer's trainer and buddy box system, I successfully Took-off........Flew........Landed on the runway.......and taxied back to the ramp with "Son of Sky Raider, the Amphibious"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (David stood by me for moral support...no buddybox, no cables, no rescues!) My FIRST NIGHT FLY SOLO!!!!!! I had originally figured that the Sky Raider wouldn't survive the evening. I hadnt' flown it since I got my custom "Stinger" about 2 months ago. I was going to scavenge the electronics after "stuffing it in" for another plane, but now I don't have the heart to dismantle her......she will go up on the rack in my new hanger (yes I have now officially converted an entire bedroom in my home to a hanger) and live to fly another day.
If your club hasn't held a Night Fly....you just gotta put one together....this was my third, and I can't wait for the next one!!!!!
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Gentlemen,
I had to post this (been a while)... David Storer invited me to go "Extreme Wind" flying today...courtesy of Hurricane IKE in the general neighborhood. While we would have liked the wind to be even higher, we had some great flights with the SkyRaiders, including hovering backwards, flying backwards, harrier landings, negative snaps, David's extreme slips, and his downwind touch-n-goes which should've been clocked!!! As usual, I had a blast and "Son of SkyRaider, the Amphibious" survived! We also got some great shots of him holding the wingtip of the planes and watching them "fly" at the pit tables...including shots of us doing mid-air refueling! Now that was cool!
Bev
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Good morning Gentlemen,
I am alive and well. (truth told, my mother has been in and out of the hospital the past 4 months, almost dying several times and is now in hospice...and has dementia...just a matter of time I am afraid). But my friends both on and off the airfield are supporting me.....which means the world to me!!!
I am flying a scratch built mini-ultra stick that Joel built me (eflight 480 on it) LOVE IT!!!!! Heading out to the field in a little while to fly some....I will post some pictures as soon as I have a chance.
Wonderful to hear from you....I promise to get up to speed with the updates! How have you all been? And Dick, weren't you going to be in Ft Laud sometime this fall....we need you to fly at our field?
Bev
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Bev, sorry about your mother, I went through it not too many years ago and it isn't easy but things do get better. I would like to hear more about the extreme wind flying. We do fly in some heavy wind out here but on the dry lake beds we can get dusted off so to speak and at the other field that is close to us we get cross winded so bad my poor students can't land. Your photos of the wind soaring looked great!! Gene
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Bev,
It is a shame about your Mother. I wish the best for you and your Mother . It must be very stressful and demanding on you. Glad you are flying a Stick. We are getting a bit of the wind ourselves out here in the Chicago western suburbs.
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Hi Bev.
Good to hear from you.. finally!!! Sorry about your mom. Julie and I went through that with her mom a couple of years ago. She is now resting peacefully in Bradenton. Pretty much the same scenario, though. It was tough for the last few months.
I've been busy with a lot of travel. We were in West Palm Beach for a couple of trips, working out of Galaxy Aviation with the FAA aircraft ( one Convair 580 and one Global 5000) flying all over, and over and over again, over the southern part of the state recording data for the new nav system that is now up and running down there. I will be back down but in the northern part of the "service volume" (an electronic line between Tampa and Daytona) working out of Menbourne and then Fort Green, near Tampa. We may get back to your area though, and if I do, I will let you know and come over and fly. The attached picture is a graph of one of the flights. This one was on N47, our Global 5000 jet. We left out of and returned to West Palm Beach International.
Talk about travel, though! Florida four times between in June and July, then Massachusetts, then England, then Germany/Austria, and next week back to Florida (Bradenton), then back to Florida (work.. Melbourne and Ft Green), then Massachusetts, and most likely, Edwards Air Force Base in California. And then we begin with the Louisville Service Volume, and Colorado WAM (Wide Area Multilateration)... long story, but similar to what we put in in Florida.
Busy times.. good for us, keeps the paychecks coming in.
I have a new Goldberg Skylark 70 with an OS .75 AX and Spektrum system. Neat aircraft. The design is of the old "pattern" world before they had the Focus and Vivat 2 meter ships, and so on. Flys straight and easy. As I said, neat aircraft.
Ok.. well, keep in touch, and when I do get back down, I will be in touch.
Dick.
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But my friends both on and off the airfield are supporting me.....which means the world to me!!! 