On Aug 17, 1:32*pm, "Mike" wrote:
"Airbus" wrote in message

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After an ILS to 04 at KSCH the other day, we broke out into decent VFR,
so I asked for some closed pattern work. On downwind, they asked us to
hold 360 degrees "Traffic is a Boeing B-17, your twelve o'clock, two
miles . . ." Then "Number two, behind the Boeing . . ." I followed him in
from left base and watched him land, did a go-around just to fly over and
get a look at him, coasting lazily across the ramp. A couple of patterns
later he was lined up for takeoff again, and I got a full base-leg view
of him lumbering off runway 22. *How many times have I told myself you
should always have a digital point-and-shoot in your flight bag . . .

That's one of the great aspects of flying, you just never know what you're
going to encounter. *A B-17 is a rare find as there aren't that many of them
left flying. *We are fortunate here in Texas to have a flying B-17s based
here, so you occassionally run across it flying around. *They are restoring
another one to flying status in Houston also.

Just the other day I made a fuel stop at KGEY and spotted two PB4Y-2
Privateers on the ramp (both looked airworthy) and an old military aircraft
graveyard off to the side of the runway.

Much better than my unusual traffic story -- number one and ready to
take off from Williamsport PA. The airplane just taking off told the
tower there was a turtle crossing the runway 500 feet down from the
numbers. Tower told me "Exercise caution, turtle crossing, wake
turbulence." Who said the guys in the tower had no sense of humor?