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Old 01-15-2011, 04:01 PM
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Default Inflight Portrait after near miss

While en route to Turkey Mountain (MO00) in southern Missouri for a Chili fly-in son and I had an all too close encounter with a Turkey Buzzard. We're still checking our shorts.

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Old 01-15-2011, 05:55 PM
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Terry and I on the way to Oshkosh:

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Old 01-15-2011, 07:06 PM
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The wife volunteered for her first RV ride. All went well.


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Old 01-15-2011, 07:35 PM
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My good friend Stephen Christopher takes me up in his newly-finished RV-7!



WOW! What a plane!
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Old 01-18-2011, 03:59 AM
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Exclamation ICE?

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If this is ICE on the leading edge of your horizontal stabilizer, you better watch your BACK and find a place to land, and in a hurry ...
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Old 01-18-2011, 06:39 AM
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Fred, is this a child behind you or just another illusion, like the 'drop tank'?
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Old 01-22-2011, 08:13 AM
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Already sporting the RV grin!
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Old 01-22-2011, 09:14 AM
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Hi Bignose !!!!

No, it is just the 1970's wavy canopy making it look strange
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Old 01-22-2011, 10:12 AM
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If this is ICE on the leading edge of your horizontal stabilizer, you better watch your BACK and find a place to land, and in a hurry ...
it certainly looks like it
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Old 01-22-2011, 10:57 AM
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Dave McClements and I over Rome NY.
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