William Robison

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Slick:

Here's where I got it: (bolding added, and name "Xed" out)

Quote:

N571DK is Assigned
Assigned/Registered Aircraft
Aircraft Description
Serial Number 2-16 Type Registration Individual
Manufacturer Name XXX XXXX Certificate Issue Date 12/04/2003
Model HELICYCLE Status Valid
Type Aircraft Rotorcraft Type Engine Reciprocating
Pending Number Change None Dealer No
Date Change Authorized None Mode S Code 51651165
MFR Year 2003 Fractional Owner NO
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Engine Manufacturer AMA/EXPR Classification Experimental
Engine Model UNKNOWN ENG Category Amateur Built
A/W Date 03/16/2004

With the turbine engine he needs to change his FAA registry.

Bill.

slick95

That is strange. I will show that to him.
SLICK

Jason Somes

Here' a few shots of the new toy I get to play with!

Jason

LowFlyBye

Dude, that is sweet. Single seater from the looks of it. Do you own it or are you checked out in it and flying someone elses? Who took the pics...they are great shots.

-Low

Jason Somes

Low,

It is a single seater (unfortunately) and I do not own it. I just get to borrow it from time to time.
The pics were shot out of the back of my T-6 flown by model pylon racer Stu Mcafee and shot by a buddy of his.

Regards,
Jason

LowFlyBye

That makes it the best kind of plane...just borrow it and fly for the price of expenses and let the ower take care of the rest. R-U- going to Oshkosh this year with your T-6 or the Zeke? Pretty sure we will be taking Frostbite (ex T-6 Reno racer) this year.

-Low

BTW- Do you mind if I post your pics in the gallery on my website. None of my pics are for sale, just for enjoyment. http://www.twoplaneguys.com/miscstuff.htm

pilotkid22

whats up everyone. got my private back in july 2002. haven't flown much since, only 115 hrs tt. I'm the the USAF now working on the engines of the B-52. TF-33's. I've decided to let the military pay for the rest of college along with the flying cert's.
awsome thread.

TEAMERICA

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My parents were brought together by model airplanes back in the 30s. My dad married his flying buddy's twin sister. Model airplanes have always been a part of our lives.
Mom wouldn't let Dad persue his Full Scale license but they allowed me to start flying and even solo at 16 before they would let me borrow the family car.[8D] Mom didn't trust light airplanes.
Got my license 3 days before leaving for Vietnam. Took my Dad for his first ride in a C-150. That was a very proud moment for him. It was also the last time I saw him because he died in a plane crash 6 months later when my brother failed to maintain his airspeed while landing his Aronca Cheif.[]
300 hours later, I now fly with my feet firmly planted on the ground. My childhood dream was to fly R/C for a living and now I am a UAV test pilot. A tough job but somebody has got to do it.

Chip_Mull

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Hi Dan!!

We have been friends for years and I didn't know that story. Irony, pride and tragedy within three paragraphs. the next time we're at a meet or I'm in CA we will have to share a brew.

I was modeling before high school around 1962 or so. When in Vietnam (flying Hueys) I ordered an A1-E Skyraider from AHC in New York. After building it I was shot at by an A1-E South Viet Namese pilot around Song Bei mountain so I threw the model away. Had a bad feeling about A1-Es after that. When I got back from Viet Nam I ordered a three channel PROPORTIONAL radio from Jim Goad's company in Indianapolis. I can't think of the name of it right now.

When in New York on an overnight I went to AHC in South Manhattan to just see the place. They have been in business since God created air. What a shock!! They started mail order shipping models before the Post Office invented stamps. It's a tiny place on the second floor with a hole in the floor that they pull a rope on a pulley to bring up the stock. While I was there a guy ordered an engine and I saw the guy haul it up on a rope!

Rudest people in person I have ever shopped with. Nicest people in the world to order from when I was in Viet Nam.

TEAMERICA

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Yes, and finally success. Chip, you are a perceptive individual! But I didn't know you had a "Skyraiderfobia". I can see why. Did that allied Skyraider have a bumper sticker that read "Trained by the USAF"?


You are up waaaaaaaay too late. Indy R/C or ISC Intl was Jim Goad's company. I actually visited them in 1982 while traveling across the country for the USAF. I dropped in to "shop" only to find that they resided in the converted living room of an old house in a neighborhood on the north side of Indianapolis. The house looked like it should have been an historical land mark (and probably was) but there wasn't much to see so I got back in my car and drove on to Dover.

I am still impressed with your fascination with SeaPlanes as an airline pilot and a guy that sells fabric covering. But my favorite story is how F&M got it's name from "Fish and Models". LOL I love that story and tell it often.

You need to come back to Lake Havasu. Every year I hear a new story from a major member of the Model Aviation Industry.

Oakley921

Got my instrument rating in December. PPL/instrument. I'll have my SEL Commerical before August. 175TT


Cheers,
DM

chuckd

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Hey great thread, after 20 yrs i took up where I left off, getting my Private Pilot ticket. I just finshed training and with in the next two weeks i will go for my check ride!

Chuck

Robinaire

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Hi guys; Have been getting interesting bits from the thread for a time, but don't recall if I ever officially introduced myself. Lee Robinson, W. Palm Beach FL. One of the guys above beat me-- I was a laggard and took 4 hrs, 35 mins. to solo a 60 horse Franklin-powered J-3, with cylinder blow-by problems, in Aug. 1945. Have 5000+ hrs, inalmost 60 different planes! (a lot of ferrying!); former FBO & American dealer. Flown singles from homebuilts to T-6, multi Apache, to Lockheed 10, but no turbine experience except about 6 hrs in Jetranger chopper. Would like to throw in a small commercial here for a long time (about 47 yrs) flying buddy who has lost his medical. Has decided to sell his homebuilt Stits Playmate, folding wing, complete with BIG trailer, with 160 hp upgraded engine. 850 hrs A & E. I have been flying with him as PIC "ballast" for the last couple of years. He's 77, and I turned 80 on 3/21. But he has a heart problem, and I'm blessed with excellent health, and still carry comm. medical. Today I build custom retract systems for large RC models. Keeps me out of mischief! (DARN!!) Lee Robinson

CigarSlicer

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I'm interested in the Playmate. What engine, prop and tt? What's tt on the airframe? Of you can have him call me at Two zero six- three five zero. A C R O .

LuvaraAir

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I guess I can chime in. PP-SEL approaching 200TT vast majority is tailwheel. Plan on going for SES soon, but I keep getting distracted - trying to make myself sick of Acro!

Chris

smacfe

In his post where he is flying the Zero, Jason mentions his T-6. Here are some pics of it:

smacfe

More pics of JAson's T-6

Globemaster3c17

I guess I haven't posted in this thread. I have a commercial cert. with instrument rating ASEL and AMEL. CFI and CFII ASEL, currently working as an instructor at a Part 141 school. I have about 340 hours total. I guess the most interesting plane I've flown (but couldn't log since I wasn't multi-rated at the time) was a Beech 18.

wiz310

Checking in here. Commercial fixed and rotary. own a 172 and a 310. main job is aerial mustering contractor (0-50 feet all day all weather and all attitudes).
I play with my giant scale when I'm not flying my real scale.

Flyerdann

Put me down on the roll call for +300 hr Private Pilot, flying Pipers strictly for fun. I fly out of Danbury, CT but live in the Hudson Valley, NY, a beautiful place to fly. You can catch me the first week of every August flying the family down to Grand Strand for a week in the waves. Great post, thanks! Dan

Tripower455

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I started RC at the age of 14, and soloed full scale at 17. I've been an airline pilot for almost 20 years, and have taught many of my fellow pilots how to fly RC. Every one of them, without exception, picked it up in no time.

My experience is that many pure R/C guys get a severe case of "knowitallitis" as soon as they find out the guy they're talking to is a pilot.


I've lost count of the number of times I've heard "R/Cs are much harder to fly than full scale" when the guy finds out I am a pilot.....

Even if there are lots of similarities, the skill set for each is quite different.......

Dirtnaper

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Westbound out of Ireland going back to the US of A


TRIPWR ----A---- MEN

pundi

hey everyone!
i started out with rc planes six years ago and just got my ultralight pilots licence at the age of sixteen, i can fly before i have learnt to drive!
i done all my training in a Technam Golf (awesome to fly) im about to invest in my first aircraft but looking for sponsorship because im still at school with only a part time job. i plan on flying for a career,
anyone know somewhere that will sponsor me?

keep flyen fellas!!

wiz310

Avid RCer and commercial fixed and rotary. Own a 310 and a 172. fly anything, anywhere, anytime.
to many types to list. 7500hrs, mostly extreme low level. am a mustering pilot during the week and a mad RC flyer on weekends.
RC stuff includes a Ash 26, 1/3 Christen eagle, Cap21, Biglift, Tiger stick, Spectra electric glider, and a couple of electrafuns.

Ed Toner

FAA Cert. #1361669 COM. SMEL. INST

ATP B-707;720;727;747;757;767; L-1011

Varried edxperience. Flew Navy SNJ's as student, T-34 as instructor. Also flew T-28's, F9F-5. F9F-8, F2H-3's with the 7th Fleet, as well as Martin 202 and 404, Constellations with VR-7A, TWA, S&W, who farmed me out to Aer Lingus. Only misshap was a blown tire landing a B-727 at Cleveland. They never warned me of 4" of standing water on the runway.

No accidents, incidents, or flight violations. Started flying in 1953, hung it up in 1987. Capt TWA (Trans World Ain't) Ret, LCDR USNR Ret.. Seven Log Books, probably betweeen 18-20,000 hours.

Most fun I ever had was 8 hours in a Para-Plane. Best pay was $130/hr with TWA on the L-1011.

I also have a 3rd Mates Licence from USMMA 1953. Sailed on 3 Merchant ships, 2 Tin Cans, and the WASP. Qualifed as OD Underway on the WASP to keep my 3rd Mates licence active.

It's been a good life. [8D]