random pics that YOU have taken.......

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I would love a few laps in the pattern in that thing - no flak though!

Yeah, it was crazy to see the pics of the damaged B-17’s still flying with missing horizontals and parts of the verticals. A Docent was telling us that there is one story of a tail separating from the B-17 and due to the large surface areas, the tail gunner survived the crash of the tail section after it hit the ground.

They had a good movie of clips of crews standing next to flak slammed birds.

Last year at night. Kinda wished there was some ground fog to give it a UK feel. Same bird when it was at the Mather Air Show





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[Seahawk]

Are they in Placerville?

I ran the American out of Chili Bar a ton in the mid to late 70's, early 80's.

I love that part of California....my Aunt lived Pollock Pines for decades.

I took this picture from my neighbors J-3 over fiftenn years ago - you can see the problem!

[dmcummins]

The wife and I took the old Debonair to New Orleans for a few days. We basically flew along the shoreline from Tampa to New Orleans. This was the view on the way back, not much shoreline to see. I was at 7500’.

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Are they in Placerville?

I ran the American out of Chili Bar a ton in the mid to late 70's, early 80's.

I love that part of California....my Aunt lived Pollock Pines for decades.

I took this picture from my neighbors J-3 over fiftenn years ago - you can see the problem!

The folks live in Lincoln which is about an hours drive time the other side of Loomis northeast of Pville.

That is a nice area of the American River. I drive the 49 from Placerville to Auburn every work day. The Coloma/Lotus areas get all clogged up traffic wise. This is the season of blue hairs, motorhomes and visiting rafters sightseeing the 49. That only means I need to give myself more time to get to work. Then if you add the packs of spandex monkeys that take everything over and run their own rolling roadblock cockblocking everybody, that is a whole other issue.

Now, looking at the pic and knowing nothing about crops. I would say it appears as if the topography naturally drains right towards the Potomac. I see your point about things ending up in the Bay. Centuries of farming can have that type of effect.

Cheers



My son’s wife’s family all lived in Pollock Pines. They just recently moved over to Goodyear, AZ after my son and their daughter were married and he retired. In fact this past winter, we all saw a side of humanity from the valley and Bay Area, we really never hope to see again. There were a series of winter storms that hit the region causing US-50 to be closed due to avalanche risk and mitigation. Freeway sign boards, social media of all three major L.E. Agencies and the local media channels were all warning folks of the weather and asking/telling/requesting/ pleading that everyone stay out of the region. Heavy snow, winds, weakened trees caused multiple and multi day power outages.

So do you think anyone listened????? Oh hell no! None of that stuff applies. Everyone still came into the hills for the snow. Wasn’t the zombie apocalypse, the 200’ tsunami, alien invasion.........snow. The freeway was closed and insanity issued. Locked every single road up and people were doing barbaric things to residence and businesses. People were defecating on porches, fights, vandalism, etc.

Our road that goes by our home was closed due to major repairs, and thankfully they closed the road prior to our driveway as we requested. With a circular drive away, we knew that people would be using our driveway as a turnaround. We had one guy in a Jeep threaten us with physical harm if we did not open the gate for him and that he can go anywhere just because he has a Jeep with big tires and a pretty paint job. By all of his accessories, he hasn’t seen anything more traumatic that the curb at the local valley shopping mall. His green halo ringed headlights were just too clean. When he threatened to beat my ass and run over my Chevy Volt all over the locked gate that closed our road, my wife responded before I could, by saying that would be the biggest mistake he could possibly make. I was laughing so hard because there was absolute no delay in her response. Her crazy matches my crazy just perfectly. Oh yeah, there were three illuminated sign boards advising of the closure on the road too. There were time six or seven cars were stacked up. The ones pulling trailers were the best to watch. We gave up being nice after the first week of non reading drivers getting all upset they could not bypass traffic via the road that runs by the airport.

Here are some drone shots of the chaos that engulfed the local Pollock Pines residents.

Absolute insanity at its finest!




We are at 2680’ and we had a good amount.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

We plow and harrow every four or five years - we are very cognizant of soil issues here on the Potomac so we no-till as much as possible.

Do you chisel plow or moldboard plow it?

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Do you chisel plow or moldboard plow it?

I honestly have no clue. When we bought this place in 1995 I was commuting to the Sikorsky Factory in CT every week. The farm had also been let go for five years (bitter divorce) for my weekend were spent trying to get the non-farming stuff up to speed.

The good news is the guy that did the machine hire on the farm before it was let go agreed to help me by share cropping, machine hire and getting the crop to market- he has always done the plowing and combining. He let's me spray, no-till and drive his semi while he combines.

Plowing is an art. I did not mean to imply I did the plowing!

He is one of the great guys I know - he even hosts this every year: https://lilmargaretsbluegrass.wordpress.com/our-place/

Two years ago we decided to cash crop with James, meaning he does everything and pays me a fee per acre, since my schedule was so hectic.

Here's the gear:

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by bugstrider

My son’s wife’s family all lived in Pollock Pines. They just recently moved over to Goodyear, AZ after my son and their daughter were married and he retired. In fact this past winter, we all saw a side of humanity from the valley and Bay Area, we really never hope to see again. There were a series of winter storms that hit the region causing US-50 to be closed due to avalanche risk and mitigation. Freeway sign boards, social media of all three major L.E. Agencies and the local media channels were all warning folks of the weather and asking/telling/requesting/ pleading that everyone stay out of the region. Heavy snow, winds, weakened trees caused multiple and multi day power outages.

So do you think anyone listened????? Oh hell no! None of that stuff applies. Everyone still came into the hills for the snow. Wasn’t the zombie apocalypse, the 200’ tsunami, alien invasion.........snow. The freeway was closed and insanity issued. Locked every single road up and people were doing barbaric things to residence and businesses. People were defecating on porches, fights, vandalism, etc.

Our road that goes by our home was closed due to major repairs, and thankfully they closed the road prior to our driveway as we requested. With a circular drive away, we knew that people would be using our driveway as a turnaround. We had one guy in a Jeep threaten us with physical harm if we did not open the gate for him and that he can go anywhere just because he has a Jeep with big tires and a pretty paint job. By all of his accessories, he hasn’t seen anything more traumatic that the curb at the local valley shopping mall. His green halo ringed headlights were just too clean. When he threatened to beat my ass and run over my Chevy Volt all over the locked gate that closed our road, my wife responded before I could, by saying that would be the biggest mistake he could possibly make. I was laughing so hard because there was absolute no delay in her response. Her crazy matches my crazy just perfectly. Oh yeah, there were three illuminated sign boards advising of the closure on the road too. There were time six or seven cars were stacked up. The ones pulling trailers were the best to watch. We gave up being nice after the first week of non reading drivers getting all upset they could not bypass traffic via the road that runs by the airport.

Wow, what a story!

Civilization is indeed a thin veneer.

The farm drains mostly into the marsh to the left side in the pics. I have some rather large ditches since it can really rain here. Those are soybeans in the field.




We are experimently with new ditch practices (two tiers and leave un-mowed - better filtering) and leaving the pond alone for better absorption of any chemicals in the run-off.

All part of the plan!

[daepp]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Oh my gosh, is that ^ Jack???

[RSBob]

[daepp]

Local flea market finds

[daepp]

Local mountain flood control mid-March - the roar and the power and the freaking shuddering of the ground beneath my feat was almost more than I could face!

[Baz]

New wind chime........

[john70t]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I would love a few laps in the pattern in that thing - no flak though!

If you have an extra $400/pp to waste, then now you have a B25 flight lifetime fantasy fulfilled.
Thunder Over Michigan Air Adventures

There are also other vintage airshows around the country which also support aviation and history for the next gen.

Life is too short. Do it man while you can!
(plus I think it's even tax deductible)

[Baz]

This month's Frazetta......"Kane on the Golden Sea"......

[Jolly Amaranto]

At Omaka Aviation Heritage museum in Blenheim, New Zealand.

[Racerbvd]

[bugstrider]

our own little tripping hazard

pork-chop here gained 1.3 lbs in the month while waiting for the second FLVN booster


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[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

At Omaka Aviation Heritage museum in Blenheim, New Zealand.

Those are cool. The place we visited on Sunday had one of the tri-wings. I think they are going to leave it as a static in the condition it was donated.







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[Rednine11]

Fokker DR 1- I am pretty sure no originals survived. So every DR1 you see is a re creation. not that its a bad thing. its probably my favorite airplane. Imagine flying that radial rotary wide open with no throttle control except for a blip switch. now that is NUTS ..I hope someone chimes in that knows more about these than i do.

[abisel]

Le Rhone radial engine.

Ya had to make sure the engine and prop were well balanced as a unit.

Throttle was either full or not.