Seaside, Oregon. The weather was great. After 3 weeks of crap weather I have been flying 3 days in a row. RB

http://picasaweb.google.com/robburson/Seaside1007

Troutdale, Tillamook Air Museum, Siletz Bay S45, and back to Troutdale. The wind at Troutdale was 25G30 Kts It took me about 100' to get airborne.

NO wind at the beach and almost 70 degrees. Soooo nice! Had lunch at the Air Base cafe. The food is excellent.

At Siletz Bay we walked to the beach, about 15 min. Then had coffee. Back to the Maule for the 40 min ride home. What a great day.





http://tillamookair.com/index.html

The price on clothes was so low I bought stuff for Christmas.



Length: 1,072 feet
Height: 192 feet
(over 15 stories)
Width: 296 feet
Area: Over 7 acres
(enough to play six football games)
Doors: 120 ft. high,
6 sections each weighing 30 tons.
220 ft. wide opening. The sections roll on railroad tracks
Catwalks: 2 catwalks, each 137 ft. above the hangar deck



In 1942, the U.S. Navy began construction of 17 wooden hangars to house the K-class blimps being used for anti-submarine coast patrol and convoy escort. Two of these hangars were built at the Naval Air Station Tilllamook, commissioned in December 1942 to serve the Oregon-Washington coastal area.

Construction of the two hangars was rushed to completion. Hangar "B" was the first one built and was completed in the spring of 1943. Hangar "A" which was destroyed in a 1992 fire, was completed in only 30 days. Amazingly, there were no serious injuries or deaths on the whole project.

Stationed at NAS Tillamook was Squadron ZP-33 with a complement of eight K-ships. The K-ships were 252 feet long and filled with 425,000 cu. ft. of helium. With a range of 2,000 miles and an ability to stay aloft for three days, they were well suited for coast patrol and convoy escort. Naval Air Station Tillamook was decommissioned in 1948.

Since 1994 the remaining hangar has been home to one of the top five privately owned aircraft collections in the nation.

COOL

Been away from the plane, and home, so a practice day for me. Eugene to Lebanon, slow flight/stalls/steep turns/engine out, to Creswell and back to Eugene for some touch and goes in the pattern. A couple hours in all. A little rusty on the landings so I will do it again tomorrow.
Erick

North Carolina, bought me a little C-140. Now I have two taildraggers

Show us a picture of the new toy! Cant wait till I can bring my son up there to Albany.

Maulekid
N3035M

It's not much to look at. It's a flying "project". The intent is to teach my son how to work on aircraft and fly with it. I intend to "restore" it with him doing a lot of the work. Then if he is mature enough, it will become his airplane when he get's his ticket. I just couldn't turn him loose in the Maule and be able to sleep at night, just too much airplane, plus I think there is some advantage to learning in a power limited airplane.

Jody, that sure sounds like a good plan. The way William is with planes he will have a ball. Cheers...Rob

We are in Oregon. Troutdale to The Dalles. The Dalles is in Oregon but the airport is across the river in Washington. There is a real good restaurant on the field, open 7 days a week 9-5.

Then we headed south to S33 Madras. Took a buddy out to the cabin, he has never seen it. Lots of smoke and haze.

The last leg back to Troutdale was perfectly clear. Coming over the Cascades south of Mt. Hood can only be described as awe inspiring. Words can't do it justice.

The wheel landings were tough with a 200 pounder in the back. I am getting good at converting a botched wheel landings to a 3 pointers.

Logged 1.75 hours Cheers...Rob

Left Troutdale flew over the coast range to Newport. Then south down the coast to Gold Beach

Had lunch. Short walk. Back to Troutdale.
4 hours flight time.


Cheers...Rob

Troutdale to Selitz Bay is a 1.6 Hr round trip. Smooth air, great visability, good food at The Side Door Cafe. The cafe is across the street from the runway. Cheers...Rob

Friday Nov 2 left MGJ (Orange Co. NY) for THV (York, Pa) fantastic flight not a bump all the way. Folks at York were great, had a car waiting. Drove to Gettysburg about 1/2 hour away. Did sightseeing at the battlefield Fri. and Sat. Sunday found a great flea market (for the wife) Flew home Sun afternoon with the plane stuffed with great buys. Would highly recommend the York airport and the entire area.

TTD, AST, 7W1, 2S9, 14S, W04, HQM, 4W8, AST, TTD 3.6 Hr. 9 landings 1 90 degree 10kt. Xwind landing. Nailed it.

Had some business to do in Pensacola so we flew down on a pretty day.
1.4 hours each way and since it was MLK day Eglin AFB and Pensacola NAS were both closed. Eglin & Pens approach put us straight in right over Eglin & NAS. It was cool looking down (from 4500') on the F15s, F22s, and AC130 gunships all lined up. This was a special treat. No photos because my daughter was asleep in the back laying on the camera bag! We did shoot some nice shots over the Destin and PC coast line that I will try to post...

rl,sr

Rob
If you keep posting those fantastic pictures how do you expect others to stay away???????????????

Makes me miss the west coast