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Nice

 

I used to get that similar comment when I started learning to fly with the 1946 Aeronca Champ at CKU (the Cordova, Alaska city strip where Cap Lathrop built the first two hangars to reassemble airplanes delivered to the Alaska Territory by steamship). We'd go out early in the morning to "the maneuvering area" over the Copper River Flats, and on the return fly over town and the harbormaster's office before making the left pattern to land on the 1600' gravel strip. I'd walk into the office, mention that we'd flown over it, and everybody'd say, "We didn't see you, and we didn't hear you either." Continental 85 horsepower air-cooled engine, 20 more horses than standard... An uncle in MN learned to fly in those in the 1950s, fifty years before I was, so we developed a great relationship from those airplanes... He passed on last August 31st. BTW, I know some retired Western/Delta pilots who joke that when they "fly west, all Delta pilots have to go through Atlanta." Those who started with airlines that were merged into Delta "didn't fit the mold." So they generally based elsewhere... and will have to "fly east" first.

 

I'll take "Stories That Never Happened" for $300 Alex...

 

Your ego mark, your ego.

 

No you buzzed mine.
And I have parts on the ground to prove it.

 

good morning Bill & oem buddies!!

 

Hey John. Have a safe day

 

What's the ol' saying? "It's not bragging if it's the truth".

 

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Good morning Sir Jeffrey

 

Just going by the word on the street and actual testimony from the ladies

 

Oh.
The strap on girls again ?

 

I mean to be fair, Bill really lobbed a softball on that one.