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Originally Posted by flipper35
I will have to look him up at Oshkosh sometime since we are only a few hours away. Emily got her Young Eagles flight up there a couple years ago.
I knew the camera was pretty big. I imagine that airframe has a lot of hours on it.
Trying to decide which race to go to this year at Elkhart Lake. Spring, summer or fall. The summer one is the biggest but also the hottest part of the year.
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For most of the years we owned it, it did not fly that much. Just in the last 7 years since we got the RC-30 did we start flying a lot.
That is a standard 12 oz water bottle there for scale. That is the supply side film magazine sitting there on the left. Our airplane is not a beauty queen. It is a work truck. Our pilot is one of the most particular and detail oriented people I have ever met. Since it is his butt in the seat and his license and life on the line he is very thorough. We just finished the annual inspection and it took a while. Every access panel comes off and every single bit of the aircraft is carefully scrutinized.
The company has been in business since 1947 and we have never once declared an emergency of had any sort of incident. Safety is foremost. When we received an offer to buy a much newer 206 with a camera hole and were considering it, the pilot said he would be interested in buying that old pickup truck of a 206. He likes the airplane and knows it 100% from spinner to tail and does not want to change to a newer airplane and just inherit someone's problem aircraft. I feel the same way about my old El Camino.