KTIX 03/14/09 Airshow - DSC_0905m.jpg

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That is Don "Beetle" Bailey's L-29.

Note the beetle insignia on the tail. Several years ago, some friends
and I purchased some stick-on dots in bright colors and put them on the
tail Beetle. Don didn't see them until several flights after we made
"ladybugs" of his Beetles.

He also flies a Zlin 242 and led "Beetle Flight" on our Saturday AM
breakfasts. One day at TIX, he called the tower with "Beetle Flight at
Dunn, overhead break."

Twr: "Is that Eagle Flight?"

I keyed my mike, as I was turning final and said, "No, that is Beetle
Flight, like a potato bug."

When Don's flight called to leave, Tower asked if he was part of that
"potato bug" bunch.

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