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09-20-2011, 06:57 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Utah
Posts: 8,151
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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.
Nothing can escape from vans kgb

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09-20-2011, 07:13 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Utah
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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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09-20-2011, 07:15 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Paradise,Pa S37
Posts: 735
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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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09-20-2011, 07:20 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Utah
Posts: 8,151
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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...

Last edited by Vlad : 09-20-2011 at 07:30 PM.
Reason: added picture
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09-20-2011, 07:22 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Utah
Posts: 8,151
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KirkGrovesRV8
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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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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09-20-2011, 09:00 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: USA
Posts: 1,499
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Vlad,
Mystery pic...Ohio River.
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09-20-2011, 09:12 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Utah
Posts: 8,151
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wayne Gillispie
Vlad,
Mystery pic...Ohio River.
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Niet Wayne  Greenbrier River and Anthony Creek 
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09-20-2011, 09:28 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Newport, TN
Posts: 7,496
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That's my home base in the lower right....
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09-20-2011, 09:46 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oak Ridge,Tn
Posts: 137
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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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09-20-2011, 10:48 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: NJ
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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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