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Old 09-20-2011, 06:57 PM
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Default Weekend trip to Tennessee

I like boats. Classic mahogany ones. Thinking of building some day. Last year with help of Roberta Hegy I found an amateur boat building community and decided to visit their annual gathering. It's a sort of boating oshkosh event.

This year the boaters were meeting on Lake Nickajack, TN. Boats were towed from as far as Canada and Oregon. Beautiful wooden crafts from all over the country. Having the time machine (my RV-9A) ready it was a quick HAVE TO GO decision.

Weather was vfr at departure, destination and along the Appalachians. Take off from Princeton, NJ.





Some boeing was on the way to the Moon





and I headed to Pennsylvania





for a quick check if my buddy Mark is awake





I didn't see Mark but I saw OTHER TWO GUYS along VR43. It's tough to spot those two fast moving targets on Friday but they are there when image is magnified and cropped.








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Old 09-20-2011, 07:13 PM
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I had plenty of fuel, food but no entertainment for a while. In couple hours there was some fun with a p-portable. A bit of a show at altitude That's why they have vertical zig-zags on flightaware.





A mystery picture. Where is it and what is it behind that ridge? Ted, you are not allowed to participate





Then were puffies for couple hours and it was boring.





There is a very funny village on sectional named Joppa. If you transliterate it to Russian you get a variation of the rear but applicable to different unfavorable causes. Quick look at the window confirms that








It's good to be high in the sky.
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Old 09-20-2011, 07:15 PM
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Great Vlad! so glad to see you going out and about
P.S I need a ride in a 9 sometime
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Old 09-20-2011, 07:20 PM
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A bit shy of five hours on Bear Clock I was at my destination.





Still lots of fuel.





Here is the destination. Hales Bar at Lake Nickajack, TN.



Marion County airport is couple miles from the lake. The fun will start tomorrow...


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Old 09-20-2011, 07:22 PM
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Great Vlad! so glad to see you going out and about
P.S I need a ride in a 9 sometime

Hey Kirk the 9 is not a fighter feels more like a bomber I let you know when I am in your hood with cousin
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Old 09-20-2011, 09:00 PM
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Vlad,

Mystery pic...Ohio River.
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Old 09-20-2011, 09:12 PM
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Mystery pic...Ohio River.
Niet Wayne Greenbrier River and Anthony Creek
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Old 09-20-2011, 09:28 PM
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That's my home base in the lower right....
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Old 09-20-2011, 09:46 PM
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I've been playing with setting up my new tracker from Byon and an Igate station. So, I go to the aprs.fi site to see if I'm leaving any tracks yet and I notice that there was one track that wasn't following roads and lo and behold, an airplane icon. Hmm, So I click on one of the breadcrumbs and who is it? Vlad flying right over me in Knoxville. Although, I couldn't see ya because of the cloud layer. Small world ain't it?
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Old 09-20-2011, 10:48 PM
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Greg,
What you saw was not Vlad. Vlad's icon is a nice yellow HOUSE, not an airplane!

Vlad,
Bear clock must have rusty "jim balls". According to aprs, you flew way over 5 hours. I wonder which one is wrong

Good write up but where are the beautiful boats?
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