same plane around 1990 after $$ spent on it.
a 180 hp Pacer I found in Texas.
first Scout - second time I owned it, 1999.
Let's see your vintage photos
Sat Mar 15, 2014 6:51 pm
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my first wings, late 1987 I bought this '59 C172. This was summer 1988 after I got a grass runway growing and I moved to the farm.
same plane around 1990 after $$ spent on it.
a 180 hp Pacer I found in Texas.
first Scout - second time I owned it, 1999.
same plane around 1990 after $$ spent on it.
a 180 hp Pacer I found in Texas.
first Scout - second time I owned it, 1999.
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... and, those that pound their guns into plows, will plow for those who don't.
Sat Mar 15, 2014 8:33 pm
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My father-in-law, Wayne Beltz and friends from Nebraska. No idea what year -
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Sun Mar 16, 2014 4:44 am
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dogpilot wrote:There is a book called "Black Sunday", when over 100 aircraft got stranded on the north side of New Guinea. The pilots couldn't fly instruments, so most bailed out and some belly landed on the grass plains in the valleys. I most of the instances, when they found the crew. They dropped machetes, shovels and some food from an L4. Included where instructions to "hack a runway, this long and this wide, when your done we will fly back and pick you up one at a time."
Wow, Dog, I hadn't heard of that one. Thx for bringing it up. Also, great to see they were not forgotten. 60+ years later, they were still bringing them home: http://arlingtoncemetery.net/wwii-crew-04161944.htm No man left behind... I guess they mean it.
New Guinea is still on my list. I've been in Borneo and all I can say is IF you manged to make it safely to the ground back then, your troubles were just starting.
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Sun Mar 16, 2014 8:04 am
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Patrol guy and tdukerich, those are great shots.
tdukerich, yours are a little small. Is that the thumbnail of the photo? Is there a larger version?
tdukerich, yours are a little small. Is that the thumbnail of the photo? Is there a larger version?
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Sun Mar 16, 2014 2:38 pm
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I found this photo of our Cessna 170A published in the October 1959 issue of National Geographic. The owner was the station manager of the missile tracking station on Grand Bahama Island in use for the Martin Matador, Northrop Snark and Mercury programs. Apparently the plane was used to bring in supplies and even flew a couple women in labor to Miami for delivery.
Happy to report that 55 years later it still remembers how to land on beaches!
Happy to report that 55 years later it still remembers how to land on beaches!
Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:56 pm
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My Dad carrying me on his back at the Seattle Museum of Flight in about 1987. I caught the flying bug early in life 
Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:42 am
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Two photos of my Dad in India with the Stinson Sentinel he bought after the war. Thats my sister in my mum's arms. The prop is sitting five feet from me as I type and the reg plate is on my desk.
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