Y'all know how it works. Post an old pic on Thursdays.

Cheers...Rob

June 2012 Memaloose 25U


June 2007 Valier 7S7

Rogersburg, WA April 2004

Shearer 2000

Passed my first check ride in December of '74. Here I am demonstrating short field takeoffs.

My first plane, and a great one too- balled up in Bethel after I sold it.

Blackrock,
I have been to shearer several times and have not seen that spot. Is that up stream or down stream from the strip?
Charles

Ink still wet on my certificate. Santa Ynez, 2003.



The real old days:

Zane, when was the picture taken in front of Frank's Flight Service? Frank soloed me July of 96'. What a great guy!

denalipilot wrote:My first plane, and a great one too- balled up in Bethel after I sold it.

Where was this taken? Husky pumps, looks like a Lynden Transport Truck in the background, landed on the highway? Is this Toad River?

highroad wrote:Zane, when was the picture taken in front of Frank's Flight Service? Frank soloed me July of 96'. What a great guy!

'99/2000 maybe? Early 2000's. It was one of the Powers fly-in weekends.

That hangar is so iconic. I've never actually met Frank, but I used his bathroom in the shop. That's awesome that he soloed you. It sounds like our solos were very close in time... I was late '96 as well.

2010, the day I became an aircraft owner. I had no idea just how many amazing adventures and experiences I was going to have in the little drifter that could when I took this photo.

MontanaT-craft wrote:Blackrock,
I have been to shearer several times and have not seen that spot. Is that up stream or down stream from the strip?
Charles

It is upstream from the strip. Go up the trail maybe 1/2 mile then cut over to the river. I think that was a fall trip so water was low and salmon were moving upstream. I put on a mask and snorkel and watched them resting in the deep pools and under rock shelf's. Pretty neat to see, but dang is that water ever cold!

I see you are in Butte. Love that town and still consider it home although I haven't lived there in many years.

Pinecone wrote:

denalipilot wrote:My first plane, and a great one too- balled up in Bethel after I sold it.

Where was this taken? Husky pumps, looks like a Lynden Transport Truck in the background, landed on the highway? Is this Toad River?

Good eye

My buddy Smilie and I as CAP cadets 1976. We were crazy about flying. We both retired as LtCol C130 guys... Helping me hang my motor last fall.


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C130jake wrote:My buddy Smilie and I as CAP cadets 1976. We were crazy about flying. We both retired as LtCol C130 guys... Helping me hang my motor last fall.


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Wow, that's pretty amazing - great photos and history!

Buying gas from the loggers at Ft Ware in the trench when it still existed… 20 +/- years ago

High Sierra fly in 2014

Caveman 2010 fly-in

Marble, CO fly-in, September 2010



Cary

Getting my tailwheel endorsement in the J3's at Hampton, NH (7B3) in 2001. My daughter in the baby carrier in the shade under the wing is 15 now.