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At a former job, we would go to eat at the Wiley Post Airport, (PWA) for lunch often as we kept the company planes there. They have the restaurant in next to the tower, middle of the runway, and lots of pilots land small aircraft there, park on the ramp, and walk in for a good meal.
One day a guy was practicing his touch and go short field landing in a STOL aircraft with huge wings. He would touch down, and roll 25 or 30 feet, turn off, and go around to take off again. As we ate our lunch we saw him land a few times. Then a 152 came in to land. He almost hovered in the headwind, touched down and rolled a foot or two. The lunch crown all roared with a cheer. He taxied up, and ate lunch.
We kept a Cessna 206 with the 500 pound camera system in it for the nadir photos, and a Really nice Cessna 182 for the obliques.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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