Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[bindian]

This is the toy that I want! I really need to win the lottery! :laughing:

Oh sweet! I forgot a RV6 looks a lot like a Throp T-18. I was gonna build one before kids came along.
I love the paint job! The TI paint job brings back memories. My mentor mechanic on DC-9s cut his teeth at TI before they got -9s and flew Convairs. We were TDY in Miami taking care of our -9 that was wet leased to Air Puerto Rico. Each afternoon, we had to reprosition our DC-9 from remote parking (parked beside the Concorde) of the airport to a gate on the other side at 1:30 pm. That time of day had everybody taking off or landing and we had to hold sometimes for 15-20 minutes. He told me all about the TI Shuffle at HOU. TI had so many flights changing gates, the tower held an orchestrated movement of where all the -9s would taxi to and from, thus the TI Shuffle.
hugs, Brandi

 

[NativeSon]

I never got to finish getting my License. I started at NAS Memphis Flying Club. I had about 25 hours and was fixing to start on Cross country. But the Navy had other ideas and sent me on a little pilgrimage to Southeast Asia ...........WESTPAC. Flying at Memphis was very affordable. $10 and hour for a Cessna 150 dry and $15 and hour with an instructor. When I got back to "The World" I just never could afford it again with going to school and all.

Charlie

 

[farmgirl19]

NativeSon; A few weeks ago, I stopped at an old airport that I used to fly out of, and hang out at, back years ago. The original owner has long since passed away, but new owner was just coming in about the time I was leaving the area. Back then, rental on something like a Cessna 152 was $20/hr, and the CFI, for another $20, so an hour with instructor was $40. So, I am at the airport and just casually asked what the C-152 rents for. Guy says, $150/hr! I almost fainted! I think that was with instructor, but still. Cost of fuel, maintenance and all of the other things has done it. I understand it, but sensibility just wouldn't let me go play.

That's why I'd like the toy. I really don't have a use for it, but with the person that built it, the paint scheme and all, it would have history for me, and be fun, when I had time. And a lot of planes are good investments, if kept clean. I sold my Cessna 140A YEARS ago. Sold for more than it was purchased for, and I thought I had done well. I could get WAY more than 4X that today. And could still have been flying it! (On the hot, bumpy Texas days! :laughing

 

[farmgirl19]

bindian; I love round engines so much, I have several tracks of audio, of just that! Still makes my pulse quicken!

I really NEED to win the lottery. Maybe I could get the rv6, AND a Cessna 195! :drool:

In the meantime, I'll keep dreaming. It is a Monday, so back to work for me!

Oh, and pacerron: Does Homer share with you the same jokes that he sends me? None of them are safe to post on the forum! :laughing:

 

[jinman]

I had a fun time in the garden this morning. I picked a 5-gallon bucket full of blackeyes and my wife picked squash, okra, and cucumbers, filling an 8-qt bucket. We also picked two more ripe ****** melons over 6 lb each. When we went to pick tomatoes, Kathy noticed the vines were stipped at the top of several branches. I looked and found a big fat ol' tomato hornworm making himself at home on the stem. As I looked around, I found another one, so I told my grandson I'd pay him 10 cents for each one he found. Well, he found 21 of them and I'm sure there were more. I sprayed Malathion to put an end to that nuisance. The picture of the coffee can with the hornworms is a few of what my grandson found. I told him he was opening a can-o-worms.

 

[pacerron]

NativeSon; I sold my Cessna 140A YEARS ago. Sold for more than it was purchased for, and I thought I had done well. I could get WAY more than 4X that today. And could still have been flying it! (On the hot, bumpy Texas days! :laughing

I bet you can still see an instrument layout like this with your eyes closed.

I enjoy tying the door window up and hanging out with my camera to get some good low altitude pictures from the old high wing aircraft.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

FG, I know you must be skinny because you mentioned flying in a Cessna 120. My instructor had a 120 before he bought the Citabria. I was a 30 or 32 inch waist size and he must've been quite a bit bigger (but not huge) because we had to squeeze in to get the door to shut.

I offered to bring a bungee cord to help hold it shut.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I remember my instructor flying that 120 into IAH taking a last minute passenger friend to a connecting flight. This was back around 1976. I can just imagine the tower having to give him the time to get it on the ground and out of the way. I would have been scared to crap. They should have told him to just stall it right by the ramp.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I had a fun time in the garden this morning. I picked a 5-gallon bucket full of blackeyes and my wife picked squash, okra, and cucumbers, filling an 8-qt bucket. We also picked two more ripe ****** melons over 6 lb each. When we went to pick tomatoes, Kathy noticed the vines were stipped at the top of several branches. I looked and found a big fat ol' tomato hornworm making himself at home on the stem. As I looked around, I found another one, so I told my grandson I'd pay him 10 cents for each one he found. Well, he found 21 of them and I'm sure there were more. I sprayed Malathion to put an end to that nuisance. The picture of the coffee can with the hornworms is a few of what my grandson found. I told him he was opening a can-o-worms.

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Hate dem worms. I had some kind of nice flowering shrub type plant that they could devour in a day. ticked me off. They end up being some kind of huge moth.

 

[bindian]

bindian; I love round engines so much, I have several tracks of audio, of just that! Still makes my pulse quicken!

I really NEED to win the lottery. Maybe I could get the rv6, AND a Cessna 195! :drool:

In the meantime, I'll keep dreaming. It is a Monday, so back to work for me!

Oh, and pacerron: Does Homer share with you the same jokes that he sends me? None of them are safe to post on the forum! :laughing:

FG,
I got to work on a customer's Cessna 195 numerous times. I always marveled at how the engine would swing away from the firewall for mx. Very plush aircraft.
hugs, Brandi