Out for a rip around the big hill today. Fern line is beginning to descend [emoji4]

Trona!

Visited friends in crested Butte and N Fork Valley

Salt lake



My buddy picked me up in his E type and got to make an 8 year olds birthday special - he was there to go flying with his great grandad.



Found the on button

Spent the day taking lodge guests fishing in the Stinsons then made a run to Anchorage in a Navajo. Alaska is great.

More info on those two Stinsons, please-- they look interesting.

daedaluscan wrote:Visited friends in crested Butte and N Fork Valley

Salt lake



My buddy picked me up in his E type and got to make an 8 year olds birthday special - he was there to go flying with his great grandad.



Found the on button

Major lust for the Jag. 12 or 6?

3.4 (I think) 6. I am not a huge jag fan, but I do like this one as it is simple and good looking. As Enzo Ferrari said....

It is a very clean older restoration. Far from concours but very tight and straight. We went to high school together (in England) and he has wanted one since then.

Nothing exciting, but still fun, especially when I get to expense the fuel for “work”

Flew to and from Tullahoma today.

hotrod180 wrote:More info on those two Stinsons, please-- they look interesting.

A hotrod 10A and the Blackbird, arguably the coolest 108 EVER. IO-360 Continental and a ton of mods.

Asa can fill you in more, I worked for the owners of those two planes about 15 years ago.

I thought that green n white one looked like a 10A.
Whats the powerplant that makes it a hotrod?
There was one around here,i think it had some sort of small Franklin -- 90 horse maybe? Seemed pretty doggy.
The low time owner crashed it trying to takeoff from a very short backyard strip, killing himself & his wife. Tragic.

The pic with the wind turbines has my field of soybeans that are still dark green in the center, The neighbor's that are just beyond will be harvested way sooner. The two big buildings are cattle confinements the neighbors have that each hold 1000 head. The other picture is of my CRP and the small food plot of soybeans that have strips because of the different maturities. Was a hodge podge of free seed. Turnips are just showing up in the dark area that was too muddy to plant in the middle of the patch back in June. Paullina airport is center top of the second picture.

To north of Helena MT. until increasing winds aloft made me decide I really didn't need to get to Cut Bank after all, and made a 180 and played around all the way back home. Down low, where the dead on my nose headwind was less, a good excuse for flying low, as if I needed one. I posted this pic on a crane forum, with the post " I hope this operator was a fly fisherman, he's working on the Madison River, one of the premier sites in the country for that foolishness." The headwind made me throttle up a lot more then normal (so I'd spend less time fighting it, flying a slow plane I use every trick I can) and my fuel burn sky rocketed to 4.1 GPH for the 8 hrs+ flying that day. That was running 5300 RPM -+, as opposed to my usual 4900 or so, and 3.2 GPH, that last little bit of power really costs, no surprise. I'm glad I stopped in Three Forks for lunch and 5 gallons of mogas, as that was what I ended up with in the tanks when I got home.

Debbie was at a women's retreat this weekend, so thought I'd meander over to the camp and back. Clouds were great!




runway clogged up with traffic...

KBRD




9Y2




Camp Shamineau

Camp Ripley (Military Reservation)

Jon's runway



I think this was Ben burning pork chops...



driving home

Around Paullina IA this afternoon. Corn silage and a couple of fields of soybeans have been harvested and many fields won't be touched for quite awhile. Thought the colors were nice.

Kenai to Gulkana to Whitehorse. Migrating south for the winter. A real treat this year because my son was able to get enough time off work to join me. He doesn't get to do enough of this. We had planned to leave Kenai last Friday but the weather wasn't great. Made the best of the delay visiting friends.

SPOT track:


Letting the sun defrost the windshield in Kenai.



Anchorage










Fueling in Gulkana

That looks like a ton of fun, I’m jealous!



Here’s one from the other day, coming home from a work trip.

CamTom12 wrote:That looks like a ton of fun, I’m jealous!



Here’s one from the other day, coming home from a work trip.

It is a ton of fun!

You get a chance to fly to work? We'll see you soon..... Have another week before we have to be back so we may loiter in Canada a couple of days.

Popped into Fisher's Island, NY yesterday (0B8 - Elizabeth Field). Might be paved, but it is a fun landing with water at both ends of the 2,300' Runway 12.

That approach looks fantastic, similar to Orcas Island.

Beautiful!