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R. Hankins
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Location: Grants Pass, Oregon
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 Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject: Powers Oregon Fly-in |
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Well I finally did it. I found a way to fit my camping gear into my KXP and flew to a fly-in instead of trailering. Spent Saturday and Sunday nights under the wing in perfect comfort. There were 13 ultralights with pilots and a few friends camping on the field. On Sunday, six of us flew into HalfMoon Bar, a remote lodge down in the wild and scenic section of the Rogue River Canyon. It is only accessible by white-water raft, jetboat or aircraft. One of our party broke a landing gear fitting on his Thundergull while landing. Bill, the lodge manager graciously allowed me to use his acetylene outfit to weld it back up and we all flew out safely. The KXP climb put all the other planes to shame. It is trips like these that really show the ability of our little planes. I've attached some air and ground shots of the lodge. What a great weekend.
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biglar
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:11 am Post subject: Powers Oregon Fly-in |
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What beautiful scenery! From the looks of those hills, ability to
climb
would be important. Not many get to do a weekend like that.
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On 9, Sep 2006, at 12:48 AM, R. Hankins wrote:
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John Hauck
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:39 am Post subject: Powers Oregon Fly-in |
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The KXP climb put all the other planes to shame. It is trips like
these that really show the ability of our little planes. I've
attached some air and ground shots of the lodge. What a great
weekend.
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Morning Roger:
Thanks for sharing the photos. Beautiful place, and exciting too.
Hope to make that one, one of these days.
Lots more water and trees on that side of the state. 
john h
mkIII
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Ralph Hoover
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 206
Location: Central Ohio
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 2:10 pm Post subject: Re: Powers Oregon Fly-in |
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Roger, Thank you for sharing those pictures and your adventure. That is what dreams are made of and certanly what every Kolber would love to do deep in the back of their mind.
Its obvious to us flat landers that you mountain boys trust your equipment a great deal. We have farm fields galore, but you got ..........trees!
Man, just to hard for my little mind to ponder. thanks again.
Ohio Ralph
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jsflan(at)valornet.com
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 3:24 am Post subject: Powers Oregon Fly-in |
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Ralph,
Where there aren't trees, we have some other eat-you terrain. This is
typical. Of course here there's a real good paved landing strip except for
the cattle guard.
Engine out once in stuff like this on the airport here in Sierra County NM
in an N-3 Pup. Not a scratch thanks to that big Piper wing and 28 mph stall
speed, but haven't found enough time or money to rebuild that little
255-pounder which saved my butt.
jsf
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David.Lehman
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Location: "Lovely" Fresno CA
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:25 am Post subject: Powers Oregon Fly-in |
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Nice picture(s) John...
Land looks pretty unforgiving...
Thanx...
DVD
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On 9/10/06, john s. flannery <jsflan(at)valornet.com (jsflan(at)valornet.com)> wrote: | Quote: | Ralph,
Where there aren't trees, we have some other eat-you terrain. This is
typical. Of course here there's a real good paved landing strip except for
the cattle guard.
Engine out once in stuff like this on the airport here in Sierra County NM
in an N-3 Pup. Not a scratch thanks to that big Piper wing and 28 mph stall
speed, but haven't found enough time or money to rebuild that little
255-pounder which saved my butt.
jsf
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