Adios, Delta

On Jun 3, 8:13 pm, Big John wrote:
Luke

My personal airplane in VN was a 0-2. In the year I had it (got new
and we put about 500 hours on it) never had any gear problems with it.
Used it pretty hard at times and flew off hard runways and laderite
strips.

Big John
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On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:48:10 -0700, Luke Skywalker



wrote:
On Jun 2, 5:55 pm, "Dan Luke" wrote:
After seven years and 900+ hours of faithful service, my sweet-flying Cutlass
RG 9387D has left for her new home in Texas.

"Delta" carried family home for the holidays in Houston, took Angel Flight
patients to medical care from Jacksonville to Tulsa and everywhere in
between, enabled me to show up for business meetings out of town and be home
the same day, and spread her sheltering wings over our tents at Oshkosh. In
Delta I ran from hurricanes, dodged thunderstorms, flew approaches to minimums
and sometimes just goofed around looking at the scenery. Never once was a
trip scrubbed because of mechanical trouble.

Thanks to Delta I went places, saw sights and made friends I couldn't have
without her. Thanks to her I've had a vastly richer life. How many of our
possesions give us that much?

So, adios, Delta. Here's hoping you keep helping people enjoy life for many
more years.

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Dan

could you please (if you have the time) let us in on any problems you
had? I have little experience in retractrable gear Cessna
singles...although a bit of time with O-2's and the folks who
maintained those worked on the gear all the time...

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Alex...

thanks. I had heard from VN vets that the gear was pretty good...but
the ones we had at the school I went to grad school at...well they had
sat in storage for sometime (like 10 years) and I dont think that did
them much good.

They were great to fly...and I love the Skymaster just on its flying
characteristics. My Uncle uses two of them (the 336 fixed gear
version) on his ranch.

Robert

Big John wrote
My personal airplane in VN was a 0-2. In the year I had it (got new
and we put about 500 hours on it) never had any gear problems with it.
Used it pretty hard at times and flew off hard runways and laderite
strips.

John..did you happen to know another O-2 pilot named Richard J. Smith?
After doing the VN O-2 thing, he would later become a KC-135 Wing
Commander at Fairchild Air Force Base. I met Dick after his retirement,
in the B-707 airline world. He spent a couple of years as DO of Belize
Airways Limited (BAL) operating from Miami.

Bob Moore