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This isn't a flying story, it has to do with my co-pilot Ron. We were headed down to town on the bicycle built for two and the bike started to slow down. I looked back and Ron had his head down and he wasn't saying anything. I thought he had a heart attack or something. But when I looked closer...

A gal reminded me of a quilt that my wife Essie had made for a fellow worker of hers at the post office. His name is Tim McPheeters and he was a great track runner for me and I have mentioned him before in my ramblings. Well he and Essie had a love - hate relationship and this is a story that I...

Tim I would like to meet you also. However I really would like to fly back to Gastons so I can give a few more rides into that place called Thunder Ridge. I would like to have someone to meet me in Oregon and fly back with me in N9054N. I have a few that said they missed the chance last time to...

One time I rode SW airlines to St. Louis and Dr. Bruce and Sue picked me up and took me to Gastons. And dropped me off in St. Louis on their way home. I just love those fine people. They even stopped by to visit me when they were out my way.

I will try my hardest to make it next year. I have always enjoyed my time there with fellow pilots. :yes:

Have they settled on a date as yet. I will mark it down and hope that I can get back there another time. I still owe a few rides to folks that didn't get to ride into Thunder Ridge on that Sat. with me.

I miss not being to Gastons. However it is a long flight for me and a lot of gas money. I had so much fun last time I was there, flying all Sat. into that Thunder Ridge airstrip. I was tired but so happy to share my kind of flying with a bunch of other pilots and friends. I would like to come...

Airliners land on the best airfields in the world, with help from Radar, controllers and have strict rules and regulations. I have seen several accidents with small planes in the Idaho back country. with non-standard airports and approaches. Short, one way, up slope landing sites that are not a...

We have one at S49 Vale, OR. there is a fuel shed, use the CTAF for uncontrolled airports to get in and get the key. All info is inside the shed.

Because my friends never look at the "glass half empty" side. Because I own an airplane I am not rich. I have to scrape and save to afford to fly. I hate flying because I don't have the money to do more of the thing that I love. I hate flying because parts are so damn expensive. I hate flying...

I made a flight into Sulphur Creek this morning and it was smoky from the fires in California. It was a good flight with some friends from my home town. It was beautiful in there this morning and a little on the cold side when we got there shortly after 9:00. About a 50 min flight from S49 and...

I have about run out of my stories, plus I can't remember which ones I have already told, without reading them all. I don't want to tell the same story over. I am already accused of that at my coffee shop in the mornings.

Henning sorry to hear about this. Sorry you got yourself so tired and just forgot. I hope I never land gear up in my 182. cause i would be on my top. I hope it all works out without a ****ing match with the powers. Hang in there friend.:yes:

We have 3800 ft of it paved now so stop any time. We haven't got the tie down area paved as yet though. We tried for a grant but was denighed.

We made another flight to day only Ray took his 83 year old wife along. She wasn't sure she wanted to go, but was a good sport and agreed. We went to Rome, OR. for breakfast. We went over Jordan Craters, Owyhee Dam, The Owyhee Canyon, and the Pillars of Rome. I have a few pictures Red Team Carol...

July 25 2014, I flew into Sulphur Creek with my friend Carol Skerjanec and her brother in Law Ray Landau. Ray is 83 and started to get his pilots license when he was younger, but never finished it. Sulphur Creek is in the Frank Church Wilderness Area in the Idaho the back country. It is just a...

Oh yea and if you like AR. then you will have to bring you own Chiggers and we don't have them. And you might have to bring your !00 Humidity and same temp. as we have to get in the shower to be ringing wet. :yes:

I watched a gal pumping her own gas one time and she had a cigarette going in the same hand that she had the nozzel in. That might explain the reason we have to watch someone else pump the fuel. I worked my way through college at a Texaco service station for 3 and 1/2 years and I can't pump mine...

One time I got my front wheel on my 182 in a trench that hadn't been packed in. It was wet and the front wheel and the left main went down far enough to get the prop in the dirt. I had to have two new prop blades, engine tear down and replace crank and some other parts. The total bill was...

You could sure smell it. I see you are from Conway and my son Worked in Russellville at the Nuclear power plant for about 20 years.