If we are going more money.. Go big or go home!

Embraer phenom 100!
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Those big jets are nice, but limit where you can put down and get back up from. That's why I like the little Maverick. Unless you want to be like John Travolta.

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Several years ago we went to eat lunch at the Wiley Post airport. As we were heading back we drove by a local friend that buys and sells aircraft for a living. He had one of these out front.

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It is a Pilatus turboprop. We stopped just to kick the tires and drool. the Pilatus factory pilot was there with that aircraft just going around trying to drum up interest.

He offered to fly us up to Enid, OK for pie. The airport up there has great home made pie. It is a short hop so the boss said sure. We loaded up and he flew us up there. We ate our pie as several locals up there were drooling on the Pilatus. We got to live the life of rich folks for 45 minutes.

Good Friday morning folks!

Wonder Woman has an invisible jet.

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Wonder Woman, dut duh dut dut dahhhh.

one more week :cool:

Glen, those are the SUV of the skies. Great workhorse and very versatile.

Richard, when I was in school my instructor and I had a contest when we flew dual that we would land precisely at the near end of the runway and use as little as possible in the little 152. I could beat him most of the time but scared him twice. Once in Dubuque as I put the mains between the runway lights at the end and landed within inches and he thought we would be buying new lights. the other was when Dyersville had a grass strip. That one you had to clear power lines on approach and then clear a barbed wire fence and you had room for a short roll. We cleared the power lines easy enough but it was like your friend, add a little power to clear the fence. After we landed Andy said he thought we were going to be picking taters. Take off at that field wasn't much better. Taxi to the fence, 10* flaps. Brakes on, full power then release the brakes and keep the weight off the nose. 45kts rotate but keep in ground effect until you have the speed to climb out over the trees on the other end. They eventually shut that field down because of too many planes in the power lines and trees.

Sid, if you are going big, go G650 or Citation X. Get there in class and with speed. If you want to show off get a Lancair 4P with the inverted V8 and cruise almost as fast as the smaller Lear Jets on far less fuel. 1500nm range.

Rick, when you move west look at a Cub. They barely fly fast enough to kill you. Actually, my wife is the same way. She will grudgingly fly on the airlines (would be better without other people) but not in a small plane.

Jim, how much left to do n the house?

Andy, the new house paint and everything all worked out?

We were at the airport eating at the restaurant which is right on the edge of the taxiway. It is next to the tower so in the middle of the runway. Some guy with a funny looking STOL airplane was practicing short landings. Some other pilot in a Piper Cub was coming in to eat and of course going into a typical Oklahoma head wind. He came in slow and landed with a 5 foot roll. Way shorter that the STOL airplane. Most of the folks at the restaurant laughed and how short the roll was.

Brent, we're getting pretty close to the finish line inside the house. I have to install 3 bedroom pre-hung doors & frames, trim out one bedroom closet, install a cabinet and shelving in the laundry room, install some recessed lighting in the bedrooms and the living room, replace the front doors, install new flooring over the currently bare concrete slab, install baseboard molding, and install closet organizers in one bedroom and in the entry closet. I also need to get a stacked washer/dryer set to replace the old traditional set that's currently in the laundry room. Oh yeah, new window treatments to replace the temporary crap we have there now, but that can wait until we get furniture moved in from our DC condo.

After all that, we'll attack the landscaping and finally my garage. Whew!

All that and you are pretty close? Whew.

Glen the Champs and J3s could use a driveway with some headwind including space to turn around. There is a SuperSTOL that just came out with all the mods from the factory that you would normally do to a bush plane. When you land it you just slow down and fall slowly out of the sky. In our all metal 152 we couldn't get anywhere near that short. The elder classmen must have been impressed though since the girl working inside asked if I would join the precision team the next year. I did not get to participate unfortunately.

Oh to be young and full of inexperience and good reflexes.

You should have seen what we started with. :eek:

I will take your word for it. I remember some pics in the thread, but it was a lot to take in, in a short time.

Sounds like you bought a lot you liked and a frame of a house you liked on that lot.

Bingo! :D

Well if I was still in California I would go do the flooring for ya. I sometimes miss the simple days. It was hard work, but all hands on and I didn't have to deal with people much. Though some architects were stupid. Most homeowners knew what they wanted and were easy enough to deal with. The ones that wanted us to install used carpet from the cat hoarder people though...

Why would any company have their purchasing agent request products they are 100% ignorant about? Is it not the job of the purchasing agent to learn enough about the product or service to make a valid choice of what product or service best fits the needs of the company?

We had a lady copy and paste a sentence from the specs and provide no context as to what it was. If took some head scratching on our part to figure out she was more concerned with the megapixel count and the focal length of the lens that anything else.

In the end she needed a 45MP image. That is meaningless unless you have some context as to what area it covers. 45 MP covering a square foot or a square mile or a county?

We finally had to reply to her that our camera shoots the equivalent of a 353 MP image. It is 1.1 gig per frame. and can be hundreds or ever thousands of frames per job.

Aggghhhhh. :mad:

That reminds me, can you send me a 2KP image?

So they didn't give location, year, scale? Sounds like they needed something that no one at the company knew anything about.

People always talk as if I can see the screen when they call. Then I ask if they like the tie I am wearing. Sometimes they get the hint. By the way, i don't wear a tie and sometimes I can see the screen. It was worse in the good old 90s. For example:

Him: "The printer won't go online"
Me: "Are there any lights on?"
Him: "No"
Me: "Cycle the power switch"
Him: "It has a power switch?"

It is even sillier when we get a job that has really OLD specs for the job. They ask for contact sheets and di-positives. Kodak quit making the di-positive material years ago because no one needed them anymore. Many different states DOT use the same contract specs from the 70s. It was new and cool back then but a total waste of time now.

How can anyone make a "contact sheet" from a digital image?

Went to a R/C plane event in Ames IA. It was held on Byrons estate which included a private strip and a 1/5 scale copy of that strip for his R/C planes. There was a Stinson Reliant giving rides for $50 and the Confederate Air Force was giving rides in the jump seat of a P51 for $200.

I monied up for the P51. Jump seat was very cramped. The runway was really short and had power lines with those orange balls at the end. He firewalled it with the rudder almost touching the barbed wire fence till well after the tail lifted, then let off the brakes and rocketed down the strip lifting at the last minute and barely clearing the orange balls. Don't know if he did it on purpose or not, but that was the take off every time. Sounded and felt like the plane was going to come apart till it left the ground. First thing in the air the pilot asked if I wanted to get sick. Said not really so no loops or rolls, but almost passed out on a couple of very tight turns. Landing he barely cleared the barbed wire fence and small cedar trees but the length of the runway did not seem an issue.

Loved flying my R/C planes on days with a steady wind. Mainly making backwards rolling take offs, landings, and touch and go's. Rigged one of my planes with flaperons that went both down as flaps, and up as revers flaps. Reverse flaps really helped keep it on the ground taxiing around in the wind.

We had Fun Fly's where there were various competitions. One event was always trying to see how many touch and go's you could do touching down within a 5ft chalked square on the runway. Anything over 10 usually won it.

One year about 25 of us build the same cheap plane kit with the same engine to race and compete in the fun fly competitions with. By the end of the summer they planes were getting pretty ragged. The last event of the season we placed a barrell out in the middle of the runway and the closest person to dive and crash in the barrel won and new plane kit for the next year. It was hilarious most just dove straight down into the runway. One guy actually stuffed it into the barrel.

We used to keep our airplane at Wiley Post airport. Our hangar was real close to the Miss America P-51.

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He would fire that monster up and the entire area would vibrate. It is such an awesome toy. A BIG BOY TOY of the first order.

Over 47 liters of displacement will do that Glen!

Richard, we have the little coax helicopters but are looking at the Horizon Hobby trainers with S.A.F.E. technology. Limits bank and pitch angle in beginner mode. If you lose control there is a panic button that will right the plane. Then there is intermediate mode and advanced mode. Advanced mode free the plane to do aerobatics and crash if you want. But the panic button works in all three modes. I think my 5 year old can fly one in beginner mode if he keeps the throttle up. All electric as well.

By brother in law used to fly RC a lot and one of the guys in the club he was in put his plane through the hangar roof. Another guy scratch built a P51 and was seeing how many flat spins he could do and after number 31 he pulled out but clipped the corn. It was a total loss.