Post aircraft pictures you took

Over the years I’ve captured a lot of aviation-related moments on camera. Here are a few that happen to reside on this phone (and probably can’t be used against me at an inquiry or hearing).

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Half Fast said:
When?
Did you ever visit when the entire attraction was open?
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Yep. That was probably taken in 2008. Back then they’d take up one of the aircraft in the collection and do a little pass and review for the crowd. This day Kermit took up the German Storch. I talked with him for a little bit and he mentioned that the museum would be closing to the public in the future. I think a couple years later he closed it.
 
Velocity173 said:
Yep. That was probably taken in 2008. Back then they’d take up one of the aircraft in the collection and do a little pass and review for the crowd. This day Kermit took up the German Storch. I talked with him for a little bit and he mentioned that the museum would be closing to the public in the future. I think a couple years later he closed it.
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Yeah, they loved flying the Storch in a strong wind. Go to slow flight into the wind and it would go backward over the ground. Cool little plane.

@2-Bit Speed and I went on the workshop tour on one visit. Very impressive.

The Compass Rose diner was a great stop when out on the motorcycle, too.

Sure wish all that would re-open.
 
Velocity173 said:
Yep. That was probably taken in 2008. Back then they’d take up one of the aircraft in the collection and do a little pass and review for the crowd. This day Kermit took up the German Storch. I talked with him for a little bit and he mentioned that the museum would be closing to the public in the future. I think a couple years later he closed it.
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I went down there for a paramotor meet around 20 years ago. It was a good time, we had the run of the place (on the ground and in the air), a nice dinner in the museum on Saturday night. It was kind of neat to wander around the uncrowded museum with a beer in hand.

He demo'd the Storch that weekend, too (as well as flying his paramotor with us).
 
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Nice one! Got to play with it in the simulator a couple years ago, sleek machine.
 
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NICE! Gets me a little misty! Number 4 is my old squadron, what’s the date on that one?
 
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NICE! Gets me a little misty! Number 4 is my old squadron, what’s the date on that one?
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Sometime in the mid 90s at NKX. The third one I took on the tower catwalk at NBC and was actually doing an attack on the field during a MOA activation. Kinda rare for those guys to do an attack.
 
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NICE! Gets me a little misty! Number 4 is my old squadron, what’s the date on that one?
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I see what you did there. “Misty” was an S-3 callsign wasn’t it? I believe west coast.
 
Here is a picture taken inside my Navion. The guy in the right seat is Canadian Snowbird Blake "Naughty" McNaughton. This flight turned out to be my 1000th logged hour. We had two Snowbird pilots teaching us to fly formation prior to letting them do the Ripon arrival (it was on their Oshkosh bucket list). I also got them a chance to drive our chairman's Volkswagen around afterward.

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Some photos from inside the Spruce Goose... including Margy standing on the pilot seat looking out the roof hatch from me standing on the copilot's seat out the other hatch...


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