http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2012/120511tennessee_aviation_legend_dies.html?WT.mc_id=20120522fbonews&WT.mc_sect=nws -- Ken I was always taught to...
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Friedman, Mike
mike66v
May 22, 2012 12:14 pm
Derek, No problem. Always ready to help a friend in need and you were certainly in need! Mike ... From: dcpilots@yahoogroups.com...
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Steve Nichols
snicholsmd
May 22, 2012 11:24 am
Cool pics. Thanks for sharing. SN...
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Tim Poole
gt_aviation
May 22, 2012 4:13 am
Here's a quick subset of the photos I took this weekend. It's an album on our GT Aviation Facebook page so it should be open to everyone for viewing. ...
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Ken
av8or_cfi
May 22, 2012 12:07 am
If that was posted to FB I would have to click the "like" button. Ken I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one....
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Mike McGhee
mikeymcskis
May 22, 2012 12:07 am
I remember walking past that plane thinking WTF! Then I saw his sign "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Burke Sent...
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Jmajane F-35
jmajane
May 21, 2012 11:52 pm
That is funny! The plane looks great, the owner must have had a good time with it. Â John Majane ________________________________ From: Derek de Bastos...
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Derek de Bastos
ddebastos
May 21, 2012 10:03 pm
... Oshkosh 2005, on the very first evening of my very first year with Bonanzas to Oshkosh crowd, sitting in a lawn chair enjoying a drink with my new found...
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Jmajane F-35
jmajane
May 21, 2012 7:21 pm
Yes I do. After the show was over and we walked around a bit we sat under the B-52 in our chairs out of the sun waiting for the bus lines to get small. We...
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Jmajane F-35
jmajane
May 21, 2012 7:18 pm
Yes people are idiots. When we used to have the airshow at Frederick it got to be a mess. I found little sneaker prints all over one wing of the plane one...
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Jmajane F-35
jmajane
May 21, 2012 7:14 pm
Fed Ex Field Bus had a quick briefing. ________________________________ From: Stan Fetter <Stan@...> To: dcpilots@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday,...
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Jmajane F-35
jmajane
May 21, 2012 7:13 pm
Yes they still give the briefing on the bus. Don't know if it would do much good to add more information. Â John Majane ________________________________ From:...
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Stan Fetter
s10399
May 21, 2012 7:13 pm
Remember when they had a rope around the B-52 with the "Deadly Force Authorized" signs backed up by stern-looking guys with automatic weapons? sbf...
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Stan Fetter
s10399
May 21, 2012 7:10 pm
There is a fellow in Alexandria with an impromptu museum for the Tucker Torpedo cars - he has three of the 51 that were built plus the original engineering...
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Jmajane F-35
jmajane
May 21, 2012 7:10 pm
There were kids using the B-52 as a jungle gym also. Sad the parents are not keeping control of the kids but the parents are not much better. We went Saturday...
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Jmajane F-35
jmajane
May 21, 2012 7:04 pm
General public feels a plane is like a car. They treat their cars like cr*p also. The guys who show cars have the same issues. Â John Majane ...
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Jmajane F-35
jmajane
May 21, 2012 7:03 pm
I started my lessons at Dulles. The FBO was at Leesburg and Dulles at Page's (Now signiture) facility. You could walk in and out of the terminal if you wanted...
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Wayne Bressler
taildraggersinc
May 21, 2012 6:25 pm
Their kids or themselves. Don't exclude the adult delinquents. I guess we should be glad they support the events? If these airshows were just for pilots and...
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Steve Nichols
snicholsmd
May 21, 2012 6:21 pm
VIP in this case means Very Important Pocketbook...... i.e. they have cash but not necessarily manners. S On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Wayne Bressler...
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Wayne Bressler
taildraggersinc
May 21, 2012 6:20 pm
No worries, Tim. I didn't see any reason to initiate the aftermath! Wayne Bressler Taildraggers, Inc. www.taildraggersinc.com...
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Wayne Bressler
taildraggersinc
May 21, 2012 6:18 pm
There was no briefing on the VIP bus, either. Oh, and it was painfully obvious that the people in the VIP booth were no better behaved that the rest of the...
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brucegagne@...
nova_airedale
May 21, 2012 6:17 pm
Sadly, it happens all the time and not just at aviation events. People just don't control their kids. The last time I was there, I was talking to a (I think)...
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Stan Fetter
s10399
May 21, 2012 6:06 pm
No briefing on the bus - just a bunch of signs at the checkpoint at the Metro and that was all the pseudo TSA stuff....
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Poole, Tim
gt_aviation
May 21, 2012 6:05 pm
Wayne -- It was great to finally meet you (and your family!) I definitely would have allowed you to check out the Cirrus and I'm sorry that you felt you...
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Bob Newman
newmanb.rm
May 21, 2012 5:53 pm
I presume they are still giving a briefing on the shuttle busses during the drive from parking/metro to the gate. Seems like this would be an excellent topic...
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Bob Newman
newmanb.rm
May 21, 2012 5:48 pm
Yep, agree that's a sore point. If we could bring a picnic lunch, we would go every year (or now two years) instead of once every five or six years. Those food...
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Wayne Bressler
taildraggersinc
May 21, 2012 5:30 pm
This poor behavior by the public is pretty typical at all events. I guess people figure that if it's on display, it's fair game. I wasn't raised that way,...
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TT
tony_fletche...
May 21, 2012 5:12 pm
We talked with a guy from Pilatus as well who was there with a PC-12. He too had to close up the airplane to keep people from piling in. He told us he caught a...
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Stan Fetter
s10399
May 21, 2012 4:56 pm
We were at the JSOH for a while yesterday morning and saw a woman lift her little girl (5-ish I think) up so she could grab an antenna on the belly of the DHS...
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Poole, Tim
gt_aviation
May 21, 2012 4:50 pm
We dealt with this all weekend. I started on Friday by having the doors/canopies open on all of the planes, which lasted about 2 hours. I would be talking to...
