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Old 10-07-2007, 05:48 PM
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Default We are back on the west coast

Bryan and Sherri Wood continued on to Bakersfield to visit family and pick up our dog after Rosie and Tuppergal along with Leland and his builder/passenger Andrew landed at Rosamond. We had a smooth ride home and had tailwinds both directions on this trip. Thanks everybody for a great event. See you next year.

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Old 10-07-2007, 06:17 PM
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Smile home sweet home

Jimmyb and Vicki2 are home sweet home to North West Kansas. Took over five hours going down Friday with close to fifty knot headwinds calculated for most of the trip. Made it home today in less than three hours! Saw 214 knots ground speed over eastern Colorado at 13,500. Saw 230 knots in the descent, till we went throught the wind shear layer and got into the winds going the other direction in the cold front. All of the sudden we changed from 230 to 150 knot ground speed in about a fifteen hundred foot change of altitude. Border line severe turbulence in that layer, but smooth above and below. Had a GREAT time at LOE as usual. Everyone does such a GREAT job setting up and planning the affair (Thanks everyone!). Great to see old friends and make a few new ones.

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Old 10-07-2007, 07:17 PM
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A two ship flight made it back to Minneapolis this afternoon, 6.6 hours on the hobbs. Ground speeds were between 180 and 195 knots most of the way. (The trip down Thursday was a bit different - 125 to 135 knot gs most of the way.) Elapsed time today was 8 hours, including a one hour stop for gas in SW Iowa at Red Oak (thanks for the tip Gene, great fbo). I think the total distance was around 1050 n.m.

BTW, that stop was a bit entertaining - we saw a tiny rain shower just south of the field, in fact, I deliberately flew into into it hoping for a bug wash. Anyway, we landed, and before I finished fueling, it was raining quite hard. I sprinted into the FBO and it absolutely poured for a half hour. That little shower developed into a very localized but strong thunderstorm right when we were there! There weren't any other radar returns for 100 miles! The planes were sitting a pool of water, and when the rain started to diminish, we sprinted back out and hopped in. We took off in light rain, turned to the west, and were in the sun again in about a mile. No more New Mexico dust on the planes. I hung my socks on the engine controls to dry them.

What a great group of folks at the fly-in, for those of you still building, your turn will come.
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Old 10-07-2007, 07:27 PM
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Rooster, Woody, Squid home safe and sound. Lots of fun and glad to meet more Rv'ers! Class act putting this together Doug! Can't wait to see pics!
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Old 10-07-2007, 07:50 PM
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Default N131RV Joe and Sonya back home

Great show, had tons of fun. We were one of the last RV's to leave, since we decided to visit Juarez before departure. I think there were only two or three left when we departed.

About 3.2 hours home to 28TE in economy cruise, nasty headwind 20+ knots the last hour or so.

Stopped in KFST for lunch. Wouldn't you know, all the good places are closed on Sunday!

Best to all. We met a ton of nice folks.

Thanks Doug!
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Old 10-07-2007, 08:39 PM
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The Blackhawk Sqdn arrived home in Northern IL/ Southern WI about 5PM local after departing 5T6 at 7:30AM. Our experience paralleled that of Alex, 130 kts GS on the way down, 190+ going home.

Crossed paths with Alex and the MN crew at KBGD. As we were working our way up and down the line of CB looking for a way through, I couldn't help thinking that "I'm glad I'm not going to the Cities." Glad you guys made it home.
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Old 10-07-2007, 08:51 PM
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The Blackhawk Sqdn arrived home in Northern IL/ Southern WI about 5PM local after departing 5T6 at 7:30AM. Our experience paralleled that of Alex, 130 kts GS on the way down, 190+ going home.

Crossed paths with Alex and the MN crew at KBGD. As we were working our way up and down the line of CB looking for a way through, I couldn't help thinking that "I'm glad I'm not going to the Cities." Glad you guys made it home.
Actually, Jeff, it was easy for us, we just paralleled the lines, which were narrow. You guys had to cross them. Oh, and we created our own little thunderstorm at Red Oak. I'll bet it was the extra exhaust heat that triggered it!
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Old 10-07-2007, 09:15 PM
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Doug,

JayBird Home Safe big smiles all around!!!!!!!!!!!


Thanks for a fun time. Glad to spend time with you and all of your other 980hundred or so friends. Thanks for introducing me to your audience during the awards raffle ceremony. My 9 seconds of fame made my day!!!!!
Flying home with a five ship, you, & Flash, Chris Pratt, Scott, and, Don YellowBird, and Tobin was the culmination of a great weekend. Good weather, good fellow ship, and new friends. What a fun way to spend a weekend.


A coup-la questions???????????

I was THE ONLY??? one from Hicks T67 there. We have 25+ RVs here??????????? where where the rest of you?????????????

The South California Fliers had 3? , Rosie, Mercedes, and Ron & Susan Hull, What's up???.......
Rosie, ?? Where are your people?? (I wish I had an answer for you Jay!?! Rosie)

The DFW, North Texas RVers???And other RV flyer's. Where are you??? This is THE, RV fly out/in. You RV owners that did not come to this... YOU were missed and Talked about. You have to show up to defend your selves!!!!!
The Pecan Grandbury bunch had a fare showing,, thanks.
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Old 10-07-2007, 09:31 PM
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Wink Home safe from LOE

Tom & Bonnie Lewis made it to our intended destination today of Kennett, Mo. We are on our way to New Hampshire to see the grand kids tomorrow. But we had to make a 3 hour stop at home, Pecan Plantation, to replace our alternater which gave up the ghost about 250 miles west of Fort Worth. We got some good data on battery life with no working alternater. Thank God it did not fail on the Alaska trip!! So we have 198 hours on our RV7a in 4 days less than 6 months.

We also had a great time at LOE. Thanks to all those that worked all the details to make everything work.
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Old 10-07-2007, 09:47 PM
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Default Moody Blue Home safe

Thanks Doug again. Moody Blue (Gene and Janet), Golden Eagle and Geico all home through the scattered thunder storm build-ups. 5.4 hours to the Omaha area.
The Jimmy B and Rosie Turks and Caicos group had a wonderful 6 month reunion at the best fly-in in the country. Thanks Red and all who helped put it on. Gene
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