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Cavanaugh Flight Museum - Addison Airport, Dallas, Texas
I've not been there myself, but I have a cousin who took his Dad, a WWII Navy vet, and he thought it was great.
farmgirl19
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Bird,
Your even closer to looking at FG19's RV-6
I think it is at 52F Northwest Regional
If it were only mine....
I do believe that is where Homer keeps it now, instead of at his home!
It has always been called 52F, but it used to be called Aero Valley. That is where I got my first lessons, in the Cessna 120! Speaking of which...pacerron, I tried looking for the old C-120 N#, and what I found for it, didn't match the 120. I know it sold to another former TIA pilot, when the original owner passed away, the log book that was still in it with all of my flight time documented, was sent to me via Homer, but then the TIA pilot sold the 120, and I've lost track of it. When I looked for N111J, it wasn't even a Cessna listed. (It was shown as an Aircoupe.) Now that 120 was a neat little pink and white craft, that had flown in many Powder Puff Derbies. and I'd love to find it again. If I can't get the RV-6, then might have to look at the getting the J-3 back or the 120. I think my old 140A is in Utah. Of course, with the 140A having the metal wings, annuals and upkeep might be easier!Bindian; FTW has a nice little museum too, if you are ever up this way. Welcome to the Vintage Flying Museum a 501c(3) museum located at Meacham Airport (KFTW) in Fort Worth, Texas I have been there a couple of times. They no longer have the B-17, but I have fabric that came from the B-17's rudder, when it was being restored! Climbed in it a few times, but was still being made air worthy, but have never flown one. Used to know the guy that had the museum. He passed away several years ago, but his wife is super nice, and is carrying on the museum and its legacy. Good group of volunteers, and a nice collection of old aircraft.
bindian
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I'd rather have a C140 over a C120. Doesn't the C140's wings have flaps?
I'll have to check out both Museums, at Meacham and Addison, some day.
hugs, Brandi
farmgirl19
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Yes, 140A has flaps, but one can side slip the others down, without an issue. I've even done both with my 140A, when coming in OVER the powerlines in tight places. Better to go under those power lines, at times. Fabric wings need the "puncture test" at annual time, if memory serves, and I remember one friend who had a craft that had to be recovered after the annual, and we all were flying it happily up until that point. :laughing:
Fabric wings need the "puncture test" at annual time, if memory serves, and I remember one friend who had a craft that had to be recovered after the annual, and we all were flying it happily up until that point. :laughing:If it were only mine....
I do believe that is where Homer keeps it now, instead of at his home!
Since you have the log book you should have the SN.
Try looking it up by SN, Make, and Model
You must remember the attached approach? Is that your old C-47 in the grass.
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All this talk about airplanes brings back some old memories ,, I can remember the first time I flew in a plane that I didn’t have to jump out of.. it was a C-130 I think,, from Asia to Austrian,, for two weeks of R/ R.. I set and watched the ocean,, out of one of windows looking for anything that would bring me back to civilization,, then I saw it,, a shrimp boat,, not only was they shrimping with their nets in the water but they were going faster than us.. When we landed we had 30 minutes before we had to head back.:laughing:. Lou
, not only was they shrimping with their nets in the water but they were going faster than us.. When we landed we had 30 minutes before we had to head back.:laughing:. Lou
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bindian
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Yes, 140A has flaps, but one can side slip the others down, without an issue. I've even done both with my 140A, when coming in OVER the powerlines in tight places. Better to go under those power lines, at times.
Yes, memory tells me we would punch on annual inspections. Punching is fun.
Majority of the time it is localized spots that fail the punch test.
hugs, Brandi
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Speaking of side slip reminds me of something that happened when my brother and I were flying that Cessna 152 from the factory to Anchorage. Of course, I had binoculars along and was looking for wildlife and such as we traveled. I spotted a moose with a pretty good rack and said, "I hadn't seen a moose with a rack " and he interrupted me to say, "They don't have a rack this time of year." I pointed down and said, "That one does." So he said, "Well, let's go look", turned, then almost stood that little plane on its left wing, and there was the dadburnedest banging and popping you ever heard. Just scared the daylights out of me; I thought a wing was coming off. And my brother never even flinched; just said, "Did you leave your seat belt hanging out?" Yep, I my seat belt on, but had left the end hanging out and closed the door on it.
It didn't make a sound in normal flight, but that side slip nearly gave me a heart attack.
robbyr
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Jinman, I gotta know with all the garden picking you do, how do you keep your back from hurting like ****?
I usually just have seven short rows of purple hull peas about fifteen feet long and by the time get thru picking them my back is killing me. Or the two or three rows of squatting to pick snap beans.
BTW, used a version of your recipe for spaghetti sauce. I didn't add any tomato sauce or paste when making the sauce but did put two small cans of tomato sauce in when I made the spaghetti. It was probably the best I've ever had. Gotta try pacerron's cheese pepper recipe.
I usually just have seven short rows of purple hull peas about fifteen feet long and by the time get thru picking them my back is killing me. Or the two or three rows of squatting to pick snap beans.
BTW, used a version of your recipe for spaghetti sauce. I didn't add any tomato sauce or paste when making the sauce but did put two small cans of tomato sauce in when I made the spaghetti. It was probably the best I've ever had. Gotta try pacerron's cheese pepper recipe.
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Robby, I'm glad the sauce worked out. If you have fresh tomatoes and just add the stuff you like, I don't think you can go wrong with making sauces of any kind. However, if you buy the tasteless tomatoes from the store, you have to add something for flavor and that's where things get interesting. My salsa has been a tremendous hit with neighbors and my grandkids. I was shocked when their eyes lit up and they started digging in for more. I must have done something right.
I DO get backaches while picking peas, but I stand up straight and stretch a bit and then get back into it. Three or four ibuprofen also helps. I like to fib a bit and tell folks that if you grow vines as large as mine, you don't have to bend over to pick peas. That's only slightly a fib, you understand.:laughing: Beans are definitely the toughest, but okra is right on my level and easy to pick.
I DO get backaches while picking peas, but I stand up straight and stretch a bit and then get back into it. Three or four ibuprofen also helps. I like to fib a bit and tell folks that if you grow vines as large as mine, you don't have to bend over to pick peas. That's only slightly a fib, you understand.:laughing: Beans are definitely the toughest, but okra is right on my level and easy to pick.
I sit on one of those plastic square crates that is about a foot cube when picking green beans the first time for canning. Still have to bend over but not as much as when standing. For later picking we just pull up the vines and pick them while standing.
My wife is still able to sort of squat and pick but that would lock my knees up.
One of the reasons I am interested in black eyed peas is because I thought the pea pods were higher up on the plant making them easier to see and pick. Am I wrong?:confused3:
Ron
My wife is still able to sort of squat and pick but that would lock my knees up.
One of the reasons I am interested in black eyed peas is because I thought the pea pods were higher up on the plant making them easier to see and pick. Am I wrong?:confused3:
Ron
Speaking of bending over and standing up, I was turning off the gas on the grill last evening and as I stood up I caught a glimpse of some unwanted guests on the house. See if you can spot them in photo # 1?
You can see in photo # 2 that it is an active nest. Usually nests this large are in big trees but every couple years or so
they build on the house or barns.
Do you folks have the same problem in Texas?
We usually leave them alone until freezing weather and then try to knock the nest down with a pole when they are on the house. Scraping off the paper glue they attach with is a real problem that high.
Any suggestions?:confused2:
Ron
You can see in photo # 2 that it is an active nest. Usually nests this large are in big trees but every couple years or so
they build on the house or barns.
Do you folks have the same problem in Texas?
We usually leave them alone until freezing weather and then try to knock the nest down with a pole when they are on the house. Scraping off the paper glue they attach with is a real problem that high.
Any suggestions?:confused2:
Ron
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Ron, I've never seen a hornet's nest like that in my part of the country. We do have at least 2 or 3 different kinds of wasps that build paper nests held on by a short stem, and we have mud daubers.
sseelhoff
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108.5. My temperature sensor is the shade. Yikes.
farmgirl19
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105 here, in the shade! I hear it will be warmer tomorrow.
pacerron, I have a friend that had a hornet's nest like that in a tree one year. Didn't know they were there, until he fired up the smoker under that tree! I think he had to have someone finally come and remove it, because it would have been months before they went dormant enough to not be a danger. Scary that they can get that big, and noone notice it before.
pacerron, I have a friend that had a hornet's nest like that in a tree one year. Didn't know they were there, until he fired up the smoker under that tree! I think he had to have someone finally come and remove it, because it would have been months before they went dormant enough to not be a danger. Scary that they can get that big, and noone notice it before.
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Officially 105 in Denton, and the same forecast for tomorrow. My infrared thermometer showed 105 to 107 at different places in the shade on my patio. I never have liked August.
Seems that way but we have checked our roof numerous times this summer for proper sealing since it was replaced late last fall and we did not notice this nest till last night. I think a lot of it has to do with the distance from the ground and the exponential growth of the hive workers/hive.
Only 88 here today but seemed like 95 because of humidity. I rushed to run the finish mower over the horse pasture as bad storms were predicted for this afternoon. We only got a few drops of rain and it moved on to the east.
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"Wasp-es build nest-es out west on post-es as big as my fist-es." My mother would say that to teach me what the proper plural of those words is by saying all the wrong things. I was amused to hear Gollum in The Hobbit use the same phrasing. Our paper wasps don't make nests like the one you showed, Ron. I think our wasps are generally not as easily irritated as your hornets. They generally leave you alone unless you get very close to their nest. . .es. :laughing:
Our paper wasps don't make nests like the one you showed, Ron. I think our wasps are generally not as easily irritated as your hornets. They generally leave you alone unless you get very close to their nest. . .es. :laughing:
