58Skylane wrote:

rw2 wrote:

wtxdragger wrote:If we can get the FAA or Congress or whomever to pass the Third Class Medical exemption, I bet a bunch of 'em would be in the air.

Fabulous. A bunch of diabetic geriatrics will be firing up hulks that haven't flown in ten years. That's definitely not going to be an issue.

Still wouldn't be anywhere near what's on our nations highways and roads!

I hope your comment was sarcasm.

Note the Winky at the end.

rw2 wrote:

58Skylane wrote:

rw2 wrote:Fabulous. A bunch of diabetic geriatrics will be firing up hulks that haven't flown in ten years. That's definitely not going to be an issue.

Still wouldn't be anywhere near what's on our nations highways and roads!

I hope your comment was sarcasm.

Note the Winky at the end.

Roger that!!

(Ok.... That's it!! I was "looking" at some reading glasses the other day at our Family Dollar store and "thought" about trying a pair on. But I think I was still in denial and didn't. I think I should now. Errr!)

These have been sitting at Hampton for years.

I flew north yesterday to get some photos of these poor things for you guys. Murwillumbah Airport in North NSW certainly has no shortage of ramp mummys! particularly not for such a piddly little strip!

none of the below airport have moved for atleast 10 years that I know of!

This is the one that gets to me the most though. This gorgeous big old bird just sits there, moved every 6 months to mow under it. Some many people have offered the owner good money for it with the goal of getting her flying, but the owner has decided shes fine and still ok, and that hes going to keep flying her. So there she sits in the weather.

That breaks my heart to see such a beautiful bird reduced to yard art.

its so disappointing! its really not in bad nick to and carry's so much potential! apparently both motors need overhaul which is its reason for grounding. It actually spent most of its life flying over there in the states, then the owner flew it over here, tied it down there, and there she has sat!

I found these fine ramp mummies at the Spanish Fork, UT airport. The weeds are up to the wings. Will they ever fly again or die a slow death?

Those planes as Spanish Fork are really sad. They used to be parked on the ramp in the transient parking, rotting away. A few years ago the airport was re-surfacing the ramp and had the owners either move them from the airfield or park them on the old, closed and unused ramp on the North of the runway. These are the ones that were moved, and there they have sat ever since. I don't get it,and it's sad. There are a few more that have found their way onto the ramp parking areas and are just rotting in the weather.

Found is defiantly the right word! got to look hard through that long grass to be able to find them!

Yes they don't look all that bad. A real bummer their owners are just letting them go.

DrifterDriver wrote:its so disappointing! its really not in bad nick too and carry's so much potential! ... and there she has sat!

Yeah, I've been watching this old girl for over 10 years. Mowing is the biggest thrill she gets all year. Murwillumbah is a great little strip. Flying up the Tweed valley to land there is one of my fondest memories of flying in Oz.

Here she sat...several years ago...


Meanwhile... this past weekend, I watched one of her older siblings put on her red dress and display some of that "potential" you talk about:









They ALWAYS look better in the air than they do in the long grass.

YB

That Younkin kid puts on one hell of a show! I prefer it to many of the state of the art flight demos, something about that Beech doing things she was never really meant to do...

I've got a few hours in the Beech 18, wonderful ship! Unfortunately she's an expensive hobby to keep up, and now with Aero Engines going out of business overhauled R985 are going to be that much more difficult to come by. So happy I was able to spend many good years with the venerable P&W.

Halestorm wrote:That Younkin kid puts on one hell of a show! I prefer it to many of the state of the art flight demos, something about that Beech doing things she was never really meant to do...

Agreed! I prefer those graceful Bob-Hooverish aerobatics in a standard airframe to the hair-on-fire 10g stuff in one of the uber acro planes with a power to weight ratio of 1:1. Don't think any of those guys fly around with a glass of iced tea on the glare shield.

And what could sound better than two Beavers flying close to each other?

YB

This DC3 has been here in McCall so long the trees have grown up around it. It's right across the street from the new Broken Horn Brewery, next to the smoke jumper base.

M6RV6 wrote:

rw2 wrote:

wtxdragger wrote:If we can get the FAA or Congress or whomever to pass the Third Class Medical exemption, I bet a bunch of 'em would be in the air.

Fabulous. A bunch of diabetic geriatrics will be firing up hulks that haven't flown in ten years. That's definitely not going to be an issue.

I think you would argue if some one said the Sun was Yellow!!??

+1 I can't wait until some of our younger pilots get "geriatric".

This ramp mummy is even for sale.
http://www.barnstormers.com/classified_ ... a+182.html

Worth the $15K just for parts.

Sad to see. My first airplane looked like a lot of these. '51 PA-18 in several piles needing fixed up and put back together. It was a labor of love learning how to build a Super Cub and start that O-235 for the very first time after "I" held all the pieces in my hands. Pretty heady stuff for a 16 year ol kid. That Cub taught me how to fly, and now after 45 years of it, what a ride it's been.

I guess those 16 year olds are harder to find nowdays. There are some absolute bargains out there at this end of the scale. Some elbow grease and learnin' and about the same amount of money as a beater car or truck, and off you go on an adventure and/or career.

Gump

GumpAir wrote:I guess those 16 year olds are harder to find nowdays. There are some absolute bargains out there at this end of the scale.
Gump

Bargains on 16-year-olds? Forget what site you were posting on, eh? Hate when that happens!

This isn't the "I love you long good time GI" thread?

Oh well, you know what I mean.....

Gump