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Elton Smith
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Texas, USA
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Posted 31 Aug 2010 4:50 pm |
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http://www.reklawflyin.com/If you like airplanes and steel guitar as much as I do ,you might want to try this out.Everything is free but the meals.6 bucks from the EAA chapter. We try to help Dave and Marcia every year with this thing and it's got big.Maybe the biggest fly-in in Texas.b0b I may be in the wrong place for this,if so please correct me.But if you want to have a great family outing and never been there,check it out.Throw a kid and a tent in your plane and have some fun.
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Elton Smith
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Posted 31 Aug 2010 4:54 pm
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Seems my link grabbed the IF.Knock that off and get the page.
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Elton Smith
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Posted 31 Aug 2010 4:57 pm
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I still can't play a computer.
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Andy Sandoval
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Bakersfield, California, USA
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Elton Smith
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 31 Aug 2010 5:05 pm
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Thanks,Andy.
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 31 Aug 2010 6:55 pm You must be a lo-winger guy!?
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I used to fly a Stinson and Cessna-180 so we merely took a long a huge (light weight) plastic drop cloth.
Instead of the limitations of a small tent, we had it good, sorta like in a stand-upp room HOTEL.
The fly-outs up here in the Pacific Northwest were always fun. Some times had as many as 60 aircraft, mostly from our own Beaverton, Oregon, Chapter of the Oregon Pilots Assn.
Surely do miss those days. |
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joe long
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San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 31 Aug 2010 7:02 pm
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| Glad to see some mention of the Flying M Ranch flyin in Reklaw, Texsas. We started fly there in 1990 when it was much smaller in attendance. I believe there were only 50 planes that year. The early years were very nice and pleasant. Also, the runway was a lot shorter and you really had to watch your weight going out. Haven't been there in the last few years but look forward to going back befoe we sell our plane. |
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joe long
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San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 10:00 am
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Ray, the best airplane I ever owned was a 1953 C-180 followed Skylane. We also had a 53 C-170B that was also a great plane.
Several years ago, while attending the Flying M Ranch Fly-in, it rained the whole weekend. Tractors were having to tow vehicles out of the mud. Our Skylane had approximately 80 gallons of fuel, 3 adults, and all the camping gear we could cram into it. We taxied with almost full power to keep moving. Mud up to the axels of the plane. Set 20 degrees of flaps and we were out of the mud and flying. That was my first real soft field t/o and I came away with a great respect for the 182 and what it could do. |
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 10:15 am About those soft field take-offs
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I don't know whether he was a steel guitarist or not but we had an olde time, long time instructor here in this area who took a father and son up into the Cascasde Mountains and landed on an olde abandoned loggers flight strip.
He picked up so much mud in his wheel fairings, he wasn't successful in acquiring flying speed and he ultimately crashed. A real tragedy........
My 180 was fairingless............ |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 10:52 am
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The two things that keep me broke, Airplanes and steel guitars!!!
Fifty steel guitars and five personal Airplanes.
Stinson Voyager II, Two Pipers Aerobatic special Colt 180 HP and a full IFR Cherokee,
A'52 Bonanza,
and an old infamous 172 (180 HP).
(as of today, I'm after another one now, A guy can't have to many airplanes or steel guitars)
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 11:27 am Oh please, tell us more..............
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| Bobbe.......are you saying you gave up on the other 'eye candy'? |
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Ernest Cawby
From:
Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 12:40 pm hi
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Stinson Voyager is like flying the best cars, so quiet.and smooth. Ilike the 172, but the most time was in the 150 and the 172. Those days are long gone.
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Bobbe Seymour
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Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 12:44 pm
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Ray,
The North American P-51 isn't mine, I just borrow it when I can get enough money for the 145 oct. fuel.
Unless you mean the other eye candy,,,,,(it cost me more than flying!)  |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 12:50 pm
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Mr. Ernest Cawby, come up to see me with a little time and I'll take you on a trip to yesteryear in aviation. Looks like I have a pretty good collection at the moment, easy to buy and hard to sell! All in annual and ready to go, (almost)
Yes, the Stinson 108 is pretty amazing for its age, out performs the C-172 in every way but I would like to swap the Franklin engine for a nice Lycoming O-360. But this being a steel guitar thread,,,,,,,,,
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 1:51 pm About Steel Guitars and stuff.....................
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Bobbe......What size guitar are you now playing mostly?  It's been quite a while since I got to fly my stuff around and that was in a Cessna 170-A. What's the size of the luggage compartment in the Stinson? 
My '47 Stinson Voyager with 150 Franklin and small tail consistantly flew FASTER than any of the 170-172 airplanes in our large flying group. As mentioned, it was quiet and it made the greatest wheel landings of any plane I've ever flown. |
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Elton Smith
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 8:15 pm
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Dave had a gull wing Stinson with the ship wheel in it.Don't know if he's still got it,but it was a real piece.Ya'll come on down.
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Elton Smith
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 8:43 pm
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By the way I'll be hauling my steel in mine.IF YA'LL get a chance to make it,we will play from about 5pm till we gotta go, cause we were booked that date.Please come up and introduce your self.No doubt what I'll be playing.Mite even have a good laugh.Thanks guys Elbo
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Elton Smith
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 9:06 pm
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Hey Bobbe.That 51 will get in and out of there rain ,mud or what ever.Duz it gotta jump seat? If so count me in.
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Bobbe Seymour
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Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Sep 2010 9:06 am
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Ray, yes on the Stinson, the small tail '46'47s were the great ones I 'spose, I never had a newer one.
The triple ten Bigsby had been delivered to it's new owner (darn) so I'm using my D-8 6 pedal Bigsby. (along with my Emmons P-P)
The triple Bigsby would NOT fit into my luggage compartment in my Cherokee 235 so I hauled it in my back seat, better CG also. This Piper has the best auto pilot, an S-Tek 50. It flys better than I do.
Elton,the P-51 is a single cockpit now but my LOA was achieved/awarded in a two place, extended.
Rear fuel tank removed, seat and controls added.
Steel guitars will always fit in the rear seats I thought, but the big Bigsbys are to long to fit in some. Ray Montee,,I don't know how your four neck can be flown, but then I know you can fly the big iron.
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Rick Campbell
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Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 2 Sep 2010 4:30 pm
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I'm a flight instructor, commercial, multi, instrument.... I've owned C-182, C-172, PA-28-140, PA-28-235, Grumman Cheetah, 3 V Tails, 2 CGS Hawks, and I built an RAF 2000 Gyrocopter. Airplanes are much easier for me to operate than steel guitars, and they stay in tune better.
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Mickey Adams
From:
Bandera Texas
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Posted 2 Sep 2010 5:31 pm
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IM going to try and make this one...Ive got a C182RG...
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Sep 2010 8:54 am
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Micky, yea, that's the one where the wheels go up and sometimes go back down.......... 
Your buddy and supporter!
Bobbe |
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Gary Brekke
From:
Alaska, USA
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Posted 3 Sep 2010 10:33 am
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| Have a '53 C180 : Gar-aero wheels, sky lights, ext. baggage, Atlee-Dodge jump seats, 88" prop & more. Nearly all the Alaska mods - great for moose hunting - which is where I'm heading next week! Now all I need is a Super Cub to fly around camp - the C180 is a little expensive on fuel! |
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Ernest Cawby
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Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Sep 2010 4:36 am Hi
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bOBBE THE fRANKLIN MAY HAVE THINGS THAT the Luc. does not have but it has a sound all it's own, and sounds like a kitten. purren, the caben is padded like no other, would make a good recording room, no outside noises. Sounds like I like tht cabin. When Becky was a baby we made a flight from Pensacola to Montgomery one night, it was beautiful flight. great plane.
aaai have made flights that made histry, another time.
Bobbe are going to be at the show in Belverdere? Becky just said she wants to take us there. She is our baby, 45 yrs. young you have not met.
ernie |
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Bob Simmons
From:
Trafford, Alabama, USA
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Posted 4 Sep 2010 7:06 am king air
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| alright guys, flown and taught in a lot of those but the old Jet Commander was a real quick machine - you need one of my biennials Bobbe - we'll have some fun - I loce at least 4 turn spins.....ha |
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