"tom" wrote in message
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Too bad you aren't a little further south. I'm based at Corvallis, and
love to fly my Savannah with doors off. It has even warmed up to
nearly shirt sleeve conditions.

I got checked out in a Grumman Tiger at Bertea in Corvallis many years ago
and the instructor said "The best part is, you can open the canopy in
flight. Check this out...!" Turns out, according to the operator's
manual, you're not supposed to do that. I did all the required work to get
checked out in it and about three weeks later they sold it.

Do they still have the helicopter flight school in Corvallis with all the
rich Japanese exchange students?

"Cwollis twarric hero *indistinguishable*, Cwollis"

I used to fly out of CVO. Back in '90 my friends and I used to drag-race
our pickups on the abandoned taxi-way out by the VOR at 2 or 3 in the
morning when nobody was likely to use the airfield. I loved the old B-17
pads.

-c