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Ping, Jay Honeck
Jay,
I was telling my wife of your Inn and she reminded me of the time we were at Dodgeville, Wisconsin. There is one requirement to stop at the Alexis..... a flat runway ;-) Marty |
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"Marty" wrote in message
... There is one requirement to stop at the Alexis..... a flat runway ;-) Hey, it's Iowa, the whole state is a runway. ;-) |
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"Marty" wrote in message There is one requirement to stop at the Alexis..... a flat runway ;-) In article EUIwc.10873$4S5.10674@attbi_s52, G. Burkhart wrote: Hey, it's Iowa, the whole state is a runway. ;-) I used to think that until I drove across it one day. |
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It still looks pretty flat to most people from inside cars. Try it on a
bicycle! Ain't flat atol. -- Bob (RAGBRAI 17) I don't have to like Bush and Cheney (Or Kerry, for that matter) to love America "EDR" wrote in message ... "Marty" wrote in message There is one requirement to stop at the Alexis..... a flat runway ;-) In article EUIwc.10873$4S5.10674@attbi_s52, G. Burkhart wrote: Hey, it's Iowa, the whole state is a runway. ;-) I used to think that until I drove across it one day. |
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Hmmm, flat is a relative term I suppose. But...speaking in terms of an
aviation sectional, Jay's neck of the woods is *all* green (ok, there are two shades, big deal). Not nearly as colorful as the sectionals out here in the West. -- Jack Allison PP-ASEL "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return" - Leonardo Da Vinci (Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail) |
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I was telling my wife of your Inn and she reminded me of the time we were
at Dodgeville, Wisconsin. There is one requirement to stop at the Alexis..... a flat runway ;-) We've got THREE of them! :-) And the pool is open... Make it on July 25th, and beer, food, and music are FREE! :-) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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"Marty" wrote in message ...
Jay, I was telling my wife of your Inn and she reminded me of the time we were at Dodgeville, Wisconsin. There is one requirement to stop at the Alexis..... a flat runway ;-) Marty Apparantly, there is some sort of measurement of "flatness." Somewhere within the past year I have seen two articles both describing a test of a pancake and the state of Kansas, using this measurement technique. Turns out that Kansas actually is "flatter than a pancake." As I recall, the measure of pure flatness is 1.000000; and the pancake came out at .99993, and Kansas came out at ..99996! Can't tell you about Iowa. |
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"Marty" wrote in message ... Jay, I was telling my wife of your Inn and she reminded me of the time we were at Dodgeville, Wisconsin. There is one requirement to stop at the Alexis..... a flat runway ;-) Marty Hey Guys/Gals, Last time I flew into Dodgeville, it was the Don Q Inn (late 80s). I decided to do a search and found the Don Q but they made no mention of the airport or runway. Does anyone know if it (the runway) is closed or not? I'm going to check on it tomorrow. The joke (seems no one got it) of my original post was that the runway there had a difference in altitude of around 80'(?) between thresholds. The airport directory had a big warning about it. As a rule of thumb you landed to the East (uphill) and took off to the West (downhill). I landed with a mild tailwind and it took near full throttle to get (over the hump) to the top. They had a large plane on static display and had a nice movie in the motel lobby about getting it in there, it was a long wait for the right conditions to land it there. Another neat item, the motel and restaurant are connected by a tunnel with some weird , if not bizarre things in it. When I returned from the Don Q and told others in the airport cafe where I had been, the response was, "and your still alive?", "no way, your plane isn't bent", "didja' see the wrecked Cessnas at the bottom of the cliff?" and so forth. I found it quite pleasant. The take-off was into the West wind and I didn't have to rotate much, the runway just, kinda went away....;-) Completely unnerving my wife! Marty |
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Completely unnerving my wife!
Thanks for the clarification, Marty. (I figured there was a joke in there *somewhere*...) Being from Wisconsin, I've heard about the "Don Q." Back in the '60s, it was apparently THE place to go. Other Wisconsin "happening" places to go were "The Gobbler", and (of course) the Playboy Club (which is now the Grand Geneva Resort). -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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