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Calendar Pic: circa 1952

Two of the best inventions ever, skis and airplanes, together.
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Calendar Pic: circa 1952

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Winter 2021 has come to a close, this was the last outing before the melting started
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Nice picture!
Up here at 5600' my snow runway has mostly melted off, and I had the usual 3 or 4 days that kept me grounded due to just a tad too much snow for the 6:00 tires I have to use with the Datums. So, not enough for the skis, too much for the tires. I carefully blew out my summer runway's snow (it's pampered) to expedite the meltoff enough to allow the 6's to work, it also was in the inbetween/good for nothing state, now it's ready. I will keep my wheel skis on for another few weeks, as there is plenty of snow up higher, as in this picture.

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Charles Hubbell was a world famous aviation artist born in 1889. In 1939 he started producing calendars of his best paintings. Each year had a theme. In 1950 the theme was "The New Breed". The month of August painting was "The New Towerman". A 1948 Cessna 140 flying over a small forest fire. Airplanes were beginning to replace lookouts for fire detection. By the 1960s the US Forest Service considered the abandoned lookouts as an attractive nuisance and started burning them.

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