Pinckneyville 2006 pics

("Dylan Smith" wrote)
Well, I made it to the Pincnkeyville rec.aviation.* get-together this
year. Once again, Mary's cooking was excellent, lasagne to die for,
lashings of good BBQ etc.

Photos are at:
http://www.alioth.net/pics/Pinckneyville-2006/Pinckneyville-2006.html


http://www.alioth.net/pics/Pinckneyville-2006/Pinckneyville-2006.html
I can't tell from the photo if you're driving down the right side, or the
left side, of the paractice area. g


Paul

In a previous article, said:
Photos are at:
http://www.alioth.net/pics/Pinckneyv...ille-2006.html

I've put some photos of my own at
http://xcski.com/gallery/v/paulart/pinckneyville2006/



--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Once we've got the bugs ironed out, we'll be running on flat bugs

We missed you, dear.
But we ate your barbecue!

Dan Luke wrote:
Thanks for the pic's, Dylan. Hated to miss it this year.

("Paul Tomblin" wrote)
I've put some photos of my own at
http://xcski.com/gallery/v/paulart/pinckneyville2006/


Nice pics.

One small nit: Both planes are "Ercoupes."
1947 415-C/D
1946 415-C.

http://www.ercoupe.org/ercoupers_faq.htm
"What are the different models?"
(Scroll down to the table)


Montblack

"Stella Starr" wrote:

We missed you, dear.
But we ate your barbecue!

I new I could depend on my buddies to take care of business for me.

See you next year!

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

In a previous article, "Montblack" said:
("Paul Tomblin" wrote)
I've put some photos of my own at
http://xcski.com/gallery/v/paulart/pinckneyville2006/


Nice pics.

Thanks.

One small nit: Both planes are "Ercoupes."
1947 415-C/D
1946 415-C.

http://www.ercoupe.org/ercoupers_faq.htm
"What are the different models?"

I never knew that. I thought they'd always been Aircoupes.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis.

It makes sense, when you don't think about it.

("Paul Tomblin" wrote)
http://www.ercoupe.org/ercoupers_faq.htm
"What are the different models?"

I never knew that. I thought they'd always been Aircoupes.


http://www.ercoupe.net/PhotoAlbum.html
Here's a good photo site of many Ercoupes ...and Aircoupes. They're listed
by N-Number.

1939-1941 ...They'll be Ercoupes ...A-B.
1946-1950 ...They'll be Ercoupes ...C, D, CD, E, E/G
1958-1968 ...They'll be Aircoupes.
1969-1970 ...They were Mooney ....M-10 Cadets.

Some M-10 Cadets received (a single) classic Mooney straight tail. The
Horror! The Horror!

[http://www.ercoupe.net/PhotoAlbum.html worked best (for me) in M$ IE 6.0.
The N-Number planes I'd already seen didn't stay highlighted in Firefox. The
"upgraded" Firefox (1.05.03) fixed that issue, and now works fine with this
site.]


Montblack

In article .com, Longworth wrote:

Thank you for the photos. We would have been there if it wasn't
for the awful weather. Morris had a lot more experience and was a lot
braver than us to head to Pinckneyville from NY.

Whoa! I am anything but brave when it comes to weather. The term fowl
fecal matter comes to mind. That's why I still find Michael's "fly until
you can't, then land" meme to be so powerful. It has let me take (and
usually but not always) complete trips that I might not otherwise have
attempted.

We wound up leaving Saturday after spending much of the day on Friday
hanging out at the airport. We couldn't even launch. Ice belongs in
drinks. Someone else from the NY area did make it on Friday, but wound
up picking up ice. He dealt with it, but I'm just as glad I didn't
have to.

The trip itself was in good VMC weather, except when we landed out about
an hour from P'Ville at Owensboro, KY (OWB). We hung out for an hour
considering the radar picture, then pressed on. It was a long trip,
battling headwinds all the way. I haven't added up the time yet, but I
think it was a couple more flight hours than last time we went, plus
the extra stop.

We arrived after 8pm Central Time on Saturday and missed the half the
party, but at least we were able to attend the other half. That tent
Tina repaired with safety wire was a loner for us.

We made P'Ville the first day of our annual long trip and stopped at
Denver to have dinner with Blanche. Next day, we left late and decided
to stop early to overnight at Chyenne, WY rather than braving the mountain
winds in the hot afternoon (I can spell "density altitude" at least two
out of three times). Again a short leg, but at least we made forward
progress.

BTW, the entire trip out wound up being VMC and we never got our teeth
rattled too badly. :-)


Morris
(there are old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots)

In article , Dylan Smith wrote:
Well, I made it to the Pincnkeyville rec.aviation.* get-together this
year.

A fun time was had by all, even if we missed half the party.

It was great to finally meet you. Guess I'll have to finally forgive
you for this:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...aaceb2c63006a8


Morris