OSH 2007 Parties -- You're all invited!

On 15 May 2007 21:01:54 -0700, Jay Honeck wrote:

You guys kill me. There are whole forests here, and lakes, and big
(well, okay, not that big) hills, and some pretty nice river
valleys.

Yeah, but if you shaved your back, that'd cut the acreage by about 50%. :-)

Ron Wanttaja

"Margy Natalie" wrote

Damned, all I did when I discovered I had NO IDEA what Jay's tail number
was and I'd left the papers I'd carefully prepared at home, was to call
the hotel and talk the person at the desk out of Jay's cell phone number.
Now, if I'd only put that in the memory, I'd be ok!

Yep, and you could just have punched Jay's tail number into your phone's
memory, too.

But that would be too easy. No scraps of paper to lose, that way! g
--
Jim in NC

On 15 May 2007 21:01:54 -0700, Jay Honeck wrote:

But that's okay -- before I moved here in '97, I thought everyone in
Iowa sat on the front porch playing the banjo...

And after moving there, you realized that they just sat on the front
porch and watched the corn grow?

But that's okay -- before I moved here in '97, I thought everyone in
Iowa sat on the front porch playing the banjo...

And after moving there, you realized that they just sat on the front
porch and watched the corn grow?

As opposed to you Texans, who try to plink high wire insulators with
a .22 from the back of their pickups?

;-)

Actually, to be honest, I can't tell you where the closest corn field
is from our home. It's...somewhere east of town.

(It's easy to find corn from the hotel-- they grow it ON THE FIELD at
our airport! It brings in $20 - $30K per year.)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Richard Riley wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2007 04:28:20 GMT, Michelle P
wrote:


RST Engineering wrote:

Forest? How do you set 50,000 acres of corn on fire?

Jim



"Michelle P" wrote in message
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Jay,
Love to come, can't unless you have a really large forest fire near by.

Michelle



Not sure but I can consult with the controlled burn folks and get back
to you ;-)

Michelle


Michelle P, totally off topic, I heard that Gov. Swartzenegger ordered
the forrest servcie to contract the DC-10 tanker. Do you know if it
saw any action in Catalena?
He can order the DC-10 for the CDF Calif dept of Forestry. The US Forest
service refuses to use it. It cannot spot dump. It is only good for
laying in long, long retardant lines. The plane is not that maneuverable
as well. No something we do often and it is very very expensive to run.
about $30,000/ hr.

Michelle

What are you guys using for dumpers, Stoots or Stoofs? The two here at
Grass Valley were the first two S2Ts in California and they have just been
absolute workhorses.

You flying the dumpers or the spotter?

Jim


He can order the DC-10 for the CDF Calif dept of Forestry. The US Forest
service refuses to use it. It cannot spot dump. It is only good for laying
in long, long retardant lines. The plane is not that maneuverable as well.
No something we do often and it is very very expensive to run. about
$30,000/ hr.

Michelle

Jay Honeck wrote:
As opposed to you Texans, who try to plink high wire insulators with
a .22 from the back of their pickups?

Yeah, but we do it from 2000 ft away to give the high wire insulators a
sporting chance...

Actually, to be honest, I can't tell you where the closest corn field
is from our home. It's...somewhere east of town.

(It's easy to find corn from the hotel-- they grow it ON THE FIELD at
our airport! It brings in $20 - $30K per year.)

When I was up there, I had a hangar over at C17... It's right in the
middle of a corn field... As you can see from the photo of it on the
AirNav web page...

http://www.airnav.com/airport/C17

RST Engineering wrote:
What are you guys using for dumpers, Stoots or Stoofs? The two here at
Grass Valley were the first two S2Ts in California and they have just been
absolute workhorses.

You flying the dumpers or the spotter?

Jim



He can order the DC-10 for the CDF Calif dept of Forestry. The US Forest
service refuses to use it. It cannot spot dump. It is only good for laying
in long, long retardant lines. The plane is not that maneuverable as well.
No something we do often and it is very very expensive to run. about
$30,000/ hr.

Michelle



The Forest Service uses P2V-7s and P-3s from private contractors. BT-3s
(DC-3s converted to Turbo props) and Sherpas for jump planes. King Air
C-90s for Lead Planes, King Airs, Sky Masters, 310s, Queen Airs, and
anything else for Air Attack. I fly Air Attack.. This are the
spotter/command platform.

Michelle

When I was up there, I had a hangar over at C17... It's right in the
middle of a corn field... As you can see from the photo of it on the
AirNav web page...

http://www.airnav.com/airport/C17

Marion is a cool little strip. When we first moved to Iowa, ten years
ago, it was almost unusable. Since then, they've repaved the ramp and
runway, and it's just a neat little place to visit.

Unfortunately, it's too close to home for us, so we don't go there
often. (Although we DID fly into Amana yesterday -- an 18 minute
flight. But there is SO much to see and do there, and the challenging
little grass strip, that it makes it all worth doing.)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Hey...popcorn!!!

Jim Burns wrote:
You'd need napalm... lots of napalm, especially in July!
I thought there was a forest fire up near Duluth, MN... is that close
enough?
Jim Burns

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...
Forest? How do you set 50,000 acres of corn on fire?

Jim



"Michelle P" wrote in message
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Jay,
Love to come, can't unless you have a really large forest fire near by.

Michelle