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| !! #@ $! #@
@% ^ stuck in Santa Rosa, CA. we have an exhaust issue with the B-24
and need to repair it before we fly again. If all goes well, we should
be leaving tomorrow around 4:00pm
More re-enactors today. This was pretty good with a person dressed in uniform and a nice restored "jeep"...story of the Jeep: the name was derived from the letters GP, which stood for "General Purpose" vehicle. The troops simple shortened G.P. to "Jeep". As you can also see...someone my "ahem" size has a tough time fitting into it. No more beer when I get home...yeah right. Flying out of Santa Rosa (KSTS) is beautiful. Major league wine country and a couple of the shots show the nice wineries in the area. The haze masked San Francisco in a couple of the shots...but we could see it when we approached the bay. I was lucky enough to fly the B-25 for four flights yesterday and today. I did three of the landings. The B-25 feels like a little Cessna after flying the B-24. Oh well...signing of... Stuck in Santa Rosa...tomorrow Concord (no, not in NH). |
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| Co nc or d,
C A. ..that's where. At least for now.
We managed to fix the exhaust on the B-24. A very trying day for the mechanic as the engine fought him every step of the way. There was nothing easy to the fix and I have never seen anyone so exasperated over something. In the end, he got if fixed and then we did manage to put a very cute 25 year old King Air pilot on the flight with us. She was very cute and "Gator" (Jeremy) was found it nice enough to be tour guide during the flight. As he stated..."it was very therapeutic"... We flew from Santa Rosa to Concord without incident. As soon as we got there we had two flights scheduled and first flight we flew eastward...which though very nice and there was a regatta happening...was not nearly as cool as the second flight...the golden gate bridge and over flying Alcatraz! Sorry for the fuzzy pictures of the golden gate and downtown san Francisco...but its is hard to be a photographer AND a B-24 pilot at the same time. As you can see the from the last two flights, we had quite the turn out for this stop...there were a ton of people who came out to look at the airplanes and enjoy the 100+ degree heat on the tarmac. We flew three times today and the last flight was my take off and landing...worse one yet...I swear I put dents in the end of the runway...and it cost me a lot of beer money. Tomorrow we take off for Arcata, CA...nice long flight and it will be up the coastline of California. |
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