Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[farmgirl19]

robby; If she didn't try to wring his neck afterwards, I'll bet she'd never be willing to help again!

 

[pacerron]

Here is a photo of where I worked on the frieghter ramp at IAH.....in the corner. FG might be swooning right now over the plane that is parked next to "my" DC-9. Which Convair is it FG?
hugs, Brandi

Looks like that old frame was still airworthy in 1995.

 

[bindian]

She had her walkie-talkie in her well endowed T-shirt pocket and it skied out into the water. But we found it. Letting it dry in the sun but it probably is shot.
Ron

Ron,
Put the walkie talkie in a container of rice for a couple of days.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Looks like that old frame was still airworthy in 1995.

Kitty Hawk...........Connie (or was it Ronnie) Kalita owned Kitty Hawk. I got to work on one of their DC-8s once. A Kitty Hawk DC-9 would sub for our mail plane when she was grounded. Which was not very often. I think twice in the two years I was there.

Ron,
Which outfit did you fly for?
FG,
Have you ever heard the old saying.................."Real airplanes have 4 engines"? I heard it every day down at Batch Air in MIA when we were flying for Air Puerto Rico and the Batch Air mechanics razed us on our plane only having two engines. Their work was mainly 707s and DC-8s.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

What snake is red and yellow? A corn snake? Booger found one in the tall grass on the pond bank. I got a shovel and moved the grass around and hit it's tail. It moved so fast for the water...........I just knew it was a water moc. and took off for my Dad's old 22. I got one shot at what looked like a head out of the water at about 20 yards. This was Sunday afternoon. Sunday night...........no dead snake.....yesterday I didn't check. This morning I found a dead red and yellow snake in the water (what's left) and the mouth was blown off and the body was swollen, except aft of were I hit it's tail with the shovel.

This one shot kill amazes me, as Dad's old 22 had the barrel sawed off years ago when my uncle got it plugged (don't know how). Anyway, the front sight was reinstalled off to the left a hair. I guess years of plinking with it got me used to it's off sight shots.
hugs, Brandi

 

[foreman Etexas]

We suprised my son with a trip to try and meet his favorite folks

 

[jinman]

Kitty Hawk...........Connie (or was it Ronnie) Kalita owned Kitty Hawk. I got to work on one of their DC-8s once. A Kitty Hawk DC-9 would sub for our mail plane when she was grounded. Which was not very often. I think twice in the two years I was there.

Brandi, the best years at SimuFlite Training International were the years we were owned by Southern Air Transport. James Bastian was the CEO of Southern Air and SimuFlite was one of his favorite companies. The guy made sure all the employees knew how much we were appreciated. He was extremely generous and made sure all employees got bonuses when he made a lucrative deal to sell SimuFlite to GE Capital in 1998. I don't think he really wanted to sell us, but after the sale, we found out he was suffering from terminal cancer. I'll always think highly of Mr. Bastian and what he did for us. Our years with GE were also good as they built value into the company and then sold it to CAE, the simulator manufacturer from Canada. Our CEO, Charlie Carson II, during the SAT years left and was President of Kitty Hawk for two years in 1998-2000.

 

[farmgirl19]

This one shot kill amazes me, as Dad's old 22 had the barrel sawed off years ago when my uncle got it plugged (don't know how). Anyway, the front sight was reinstalled off to the left a hair. I guess years of plinking with it got me used to it's off sight shots.
hugs, BrandiView attachment 331955

Mine isn't sawed off, but I have my dad's old .22 pump, that was his birthday present when he was a young kid. I also have my Rossi replica of that same .22, that did bought me as a birthday gift, one year. Both are accurate, and lethal, but then, my sights are not off. If you are doing that will with your .22, that is some really nice shooting!

I remember the saying:

Red touch Yellow, Kill the Fellow
Red touch Black, a Freind of Jack.

 

[farmgirl19]

bindian; I used to date a guy that flew DC-8s for Evergreen, and also later worked for Kitty Hawk. Yes, they were proud of having 4 engines!

 

[farmgirl19]

Looks like that old frame was still airworthy in 1995.

Neat pics, pacerron! The paint scheme from 1979 was a holdover from when they got them from TIA, and just changed the emblem on the tail. The one from 1987 was not too long before SMB's demise. When I was flying for them, we were sub-contracted to Emory Air Freight, which also is no more.

Deregulation actually became more of a REregulation. In the beginning, lots of new start ups and all, but then many were put out of business, and others were taken over by larger carriers, so ended up with fewer options for flying or shipping. It was being upheld as giving more options, but ultimately, gave the public less.