Tom's Flying Field?
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Hi Tom,
I am in Lewisville for a few days, where is your flying field? I would love to stop by tomorrow (Sunday) and take a look at some wild hares!
I am in Lewisville for a few days, where is your flying field? I would love to stop by tomorrow (Sunday) and take a look at some wild hares!
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It's totally under water.
I have a picture but it's apdf and RCU doesn't support them, but trust me the whole park is flooded. The photo shows our roof and wind sock and a lot of water, nothing else.
TF
I have a picture but it's apdf and RCU doesn't support them, but trust me the whole park is flooded. The photo shows our roof and wind sock and a lot of water, nothing else.
TF
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I think he shoved it our way. 
I'm in Vidalia LA, accross the river from Natchez Miss, and we've been getting hammered for a week with rain out of TX. It's been storming all morning, since before daylight, so no flying this weekend. I live two blocks from our flying field and it's too wet to use. Gonna take at least a week or more to dry out. Lucky I got the grass cut the day before the rain began. Bright side is that I'm utilizing the time to build the Wildhare Ultimate that I got from Tom...


I'm in Vidalia LA, accross the river from Natchez Miss, and we've been getting hammered for a week with rain out of TX. It's been storming all morning, since before daylight, so no flying this weekend. I live two blocks from our flying field and it's too wet to use. Gonna take at least a week or more to dry out. Lucky I got the grass cut the day before the rain began. Bright side is that I'm utilizing the time to build the Wildhare Ultimate that I got from Tom...

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It's totally under water.
I have a picture but it's apdf and RCU doesn't support them, but trust me the whole park is flooded. The photo shows our roof and wind sock and a lot of water, nothing else.
TF
I have a picture but it's apdf and RCU doesn't support them, but trust me the whole park is flooded. The photo shows our roof and wind sock and a lot of water, nothing else.
TF
If you get in a pickle and need a field to fly in you only need to give me a shout. My casa is your casa. Or should that be my field is your field LOL... Either way just give me a call if your in the need before yours drys out.
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Yeah it really sucks that we can't fly. Especially now that I have the Sukhoi finished. I'm just eggin to fly it. But it's startin to dry out here. But I haven't gone this whole time without flying. It's good to have foamies.
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Actually the water is still rising, I don't expect our field to be flyable for at least a month.
Shaun, thanks for the offer, I may just take you up on that offer.
TF
Shaun, thanks for the offer, I may just take you up on that offer.
TF
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Yeah Tom, That was about 2 weeks ago. So I think the water should be going down very very very very slowly. Where's the heat. We need some of that global warming.
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The irony of the situation is that we are in a severe drought here in FL. We should water truck a whole lot of that flood water on down. It would help with global warming and maybe with the drought situation here.
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From: Flower Mound (near Dallas),
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I can fly at North Dallas which is a 40 minute drive. That field is also a lake but the critical areas (runway, pits, parking, access roads) are all above water. I don't know if they planned it that way, but if they did the guy who worked it out was a genius. Very nice field.
TF
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You think that was bad? The water is still rising, here's a new more recent photo. I've outlined it to show where the locations of runway, parking lot and access road.
Since the earlier photo the water his risen about 5-6 feet it looks like, now the tables, bleacher seats, and runway fencing are all under water.
TF
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From: gainesville, TX
Tom,
I will be flying my WH 33% 260 and Scott will be flying his WH Sukhoi today(wednesday) at texoma field, you should come by. we should both be there by 5:45
Dan Powell
I will be flying my WH 33% 260 and Scott will be flying his WH Sukhoi today(wednesday) at texoma field, you should come by. we should both be there by 5:45
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From: gainesville, TX
And Yes Tom It is now smooth. We ran over it lightly with a disk and a huge peace of angle iron. Lucky for us(unlucky for you) we had a lot of rain and the grass grew. The field is in excellent shape!



