Blue and white Comanche/Arrow departing Sunriver Sunday?

On Mon, 03 May 2004 16:24:44 GMT, "G.R. Patterson III"
wrote:



Jay Honeck wrote:

We had a similar experience at Sun N Fun while watching as a beautiful old
DC-3 / C-47, fresh out of the paint shop, departed on RWY 9R -- trailing
black smoke from her starboard engine.

I saw something similar at Osh a few years back. This one was an immaculate Howard.
They started the engines and did a mag test. The right engine was obviously running
on one mag - the pilot ran the test several times, and the engine would die, only to
come back to life with a loud bang when he cut the working mag back on. Took him a
while to make his decision, but, after a few minutes, he waddled over to the runway
and took off to the west.

Was that the guy they invited to leave?

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

George Patterson
If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said.

Roger Halstead wrote:

Was that the guy they invited to leave?

Dunno. He was parked north of the warbird row, and I was photographing the plane when
they cleared the area and he started up. I *was* sort of surprised to find him there,
since he really belonged down with the classic aircraft at the South end of the
field.

George Patterson
If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said.

Roger, when are you going to post your pictures of SNF?