BasinBum
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Joined: 7/24/2002
From: Hawthorne,
CA, USA
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I always enjoy when someone from out of town visits and expresses amazment that such a great facility is so loosely run.
Where else can you see Jets flying with trainers, 8 overpowered warbirds in (what they think is) formation, 10 planes in the air at once, Crazy Eric flying inverted toward himself at 120 mph and turning sharply at the last second? How about Dirty Bob always there to answer engine questions if he's not annoyed with you, 5 old guys sitting at a table for the last 20 years, Rex getting pissed off at T-Bone, Ken flying his tin can contraptions on the fence, 10 differant languanges being spoken.....
There is never a dull moment and always people to talk RC in between flights. I learned to fly there and thought it was normal untill I started reading about other fields here on RCU. Hey fellow Basin fliers, did you know that most places don't care if you fly down the runway against the pattern? That is a corporal offense at the Basin, I once saw someone pull a knife on a guy because he was not flying in the "pattern", (yes, I called 911).
A walk out in the surrounding fields is like walking through an RC graveyard and you get a lot of foxtails stuck in your socks. I prefer the foxtails to the corn they used to grow cause not only could you lose a plane in the corn but the pilot might not make it back either. But when they grew sod it was really nice, unless you hit the irrigation pipes on a dead stick.
The best part about it is nobody is in charge, the worst thing about it is, nobody is in charge.
Ah, the Basin...I could go on and on.....
Richard
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