Hinckley, I believe? The first dollar earned flying, was towing with
the 150hp C150 for Al Freedy and the gentleman who owned the property,
Mr. Bastian, I believe. Whenever I'm in town visiting family, I usually
stop in. Miss the area, in the summertime!

Jack wrote:
snoop wrote:

My apologies. Thought you were my old friend Jack out of Clovis, a Pik
driver. I did notice, at your suggestion, your email address. Baron?
Nah my buddy JACK is more of Beech 18 kinda guy, no Barons. Barons are
for pilots who say yeccch. Zoom!

Ahh, yes -- the email address thing -- it's a short and boring story. I
should change that some day -- never had a Baron. Got a little bit of
time in BE-18's but not enough in that bull ring to make me more than a
lowly Banderillero -- one fire and one engine failure worth. With some
of those old fly-by-night mail/freight operations, that could have been
about a week's worth of flying, of course. Took me eight long months.

Only time I've ever been to Clovis was for gunnery in the AT-33 -- nice
little boondoggle that was part of FAC training for SEA. Glad to hear
the SpecOps people going into Cannon will help keep the town alive a
little longer. Your buddy should have pretty good soaring weather in
Clovis, though, compared to NE IL this year.

If you're up around Chicago, come out west of town about 50 miles and
fly with us:

http://www.windycitysoaring.org

-- if it ever quits raining.



Jack