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Car Forum / Antique and Collectibles / Studebaker / October 2004got an evil catalog yesterday
http://aircraftspruce.com/ makes me want to spend money nate  Signaturereplace "fly" with "com" to reply. http://home.comcast.net/~njnagel For the 3.5 years we would drive up and visit Robin at college, the last four miles were very intersting. By some stretch of ones imagination we would pass a series of small homes, some looking like the families could just barely make ends meet. But four homes in a row had extensions built on to the back of their homes, they looked like very wide garages. They turned out to be hangars. Four homes, four familes one next to the other had small aircraft parked insidethese ad ons garages. I went as far to purchase a Chart for the NY Area and could not find a listed strip anywhere near these houses. Eventually we discovered that they used a plowed field (grassy area) as their runway One house had a Luscombe and one had a Super Cub, I never found out what the other two had. Bill http://bondobilly.com/#stuff TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEW SHIRTS.....THEY ARE NEAT We have several 'air park' housing developments near us. They have a most unbelievable mix of aircraft.... P51's, AT-6's, Cub's, 707's, ultralights... Makes weekends interesting to listen to.... Jeff (radials and Merlins always catch my ear) Rice "Bill Glass" wrote... > For the 3.5 years we would drive up and visit Robin at college, the last > four [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > http://bondobilly.com/#stuff > TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEW SHIRTS.....THEY ARE NEAT > We have several 'air park' housing developments near us. > They have a most unbelievable mix of aircraft.... > P51's, AT-6's, Cub's, 707's, ultralights... > Makes weekends interesting to listen to.... > Jeff (radials and Merlins always catch my ear) Rice Doesn't that 707 belong to John Travolta? "Scientology of the Air", or something like that? LOL Yes it does. He does a pretty good job of keeping the two separate. He also just got his rating on the 747-400. Jeff "Jeremiah" wrote.. > Doesn't that 707 belong to John Travolta? "Scientology of the Air", or > something like that? LOL >> We have several 'air park' housing developments near us. >> They have a most unbelievable mix of aircraft.... >> P51's, AT-6's, Cub's, 707's, ultralights... >> Makes weekends interesting to listen to.... >> Jeff (radials and Merlins always catch my ear) Rice We must be in a military "flight path" about every weekend, there are a "few" choppers that fly over, ya' kin hear 'em coming for miles! What a neat sound, and during the Indy 500, Brickyard 400, and Formula races, we always have something interesting in the skies! They get in formation North of Indy, and are "playing" around up there, neat to watch them as they get into their formation Jim Turner John Travolta has a home somewhere with his B-707 parked in the "driveway" alonf with a G-2. I saw a photo of th house, ...the house draws your eyes away from the aircraft it is so big. You have to hand it to him, when his career in films was in trouble he invested in aircraft with his money got his ticket and did charter work to make money. BG http://bondobilly.com/#stuff TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEW SHIRTS.....THEY ARE NEAT That's about 10 miles north of my house. He bought a 'lot' in 'Jumbolaire', which is the property built up by the founder of Nautilus, of health machine fame. He built the runway for his jets, then he got divorced and his ex got the whole property in the settlement. She's a pretty shrewd entrepreneur herself, and switched the property from a single huge estate to an air park. Both my daughters had their high school prom's held at the main house of the mansion, which is rented out for weddings and such... Pretty place. Jeff "Bill Glass" wrote... > John Travolta has a home somewhere with his B-707 parked in the "driveway" > alonf with a G-2. I saw a photo of th house, ...the house draws your eyes [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > in aircraft with his money got his ticket and did charter work to make > money. I heard that he just bought the last flyable Convair 990... JT > John Travolta has a home somewhere with his B-707 parked in the "driveway" > alonf with a G-2. I saw a photo of th house, ...the house draws your eyes away [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > http://bondobilly.com/#stuff > TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEW SHIRTS.....THEY ARE NEAT - From what I remember, the Convair 880 and 990 were 10% faster than the 720's and the DC-8's. Their downfall was their fuel consumption. TWA was the first to dump theirs. http://bondobilly.com/#stuff TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEW SHIRTS.....THEY ARE NEAT > From what I remember, the Convair 880 and 990 were 10% faster than the 720's > and the DC-8's. Their downfall was their fuel consumption. > > TWA was the first to dump theirs. I think that applied only to the 990's. The other drawback is that they were narrow bodied aircraft only seating five across. SignatureJT Just tooling through cyberspace in my ancient G4 Izzat where Travolta has his 707? JT > We have several 'air park' housing developments near us. > They have a most unbelievable mix of aircraft.... [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > http://bondobilly.com/#stuff > > TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEW SHIRTS.....THEY ARE NEAT - |
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