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 Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:34 am Post subject: Lynn's a Star! - Was Broken Kitfoxes |
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We haven't seen the last of Lynn's stardom. Go ahead, Lynn. Tell 'em about your other adventure at Airventure '07!
What was the problem with the Jab?
Buchanan <bnn(at)nethere.com> wrote:
[quote]--> Kitfox-List message posted by: Guy Buchanan
At 01:37 PM 8/14/2007, you wrote:
| Quote: | Check out EAA's web videos to see a couple of our very own making
the spotlight.....well, sort of. I'm sure not in a way they would
like to be known for, but attention just the same.
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Hey that's our own Lynn Farnsworth! He's a star! (I wonder what was
wrong with the Jab?) (Man that guy gets around. Last I saw him he was
at Lowell's in Cameron Park, CA.)
Guy Buchanan
San Diego, CA
K-IV 1200 / 582-C / Warp / 100% done, thanks mostly to Bob Ducar.
Do not that gives answers, not web links. [quote][b]
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Lynn Matteson
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Location: Grass Lake, Michigan
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:33 am Post subject: Lynn's a Star! - Was Broken Kitfoxes |
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Marco-
You mean getting "busted" for having my Tiki lamps burning? (Geez,
what's wrong with having open flames in a dry(?) campsite with a few
hundred gasoline-carrying airplanes sitting nearby?)
Lynn Matteson
Grass Lake, Michigan
Kitfox IV Speedster w/Jabiru 2200
flying w/369+ hrs
do not archive
On Aug 15, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Marco Menezes wrote:
| Quote: | We haven't seen the last of Lynn's stardom. Go ahead, Lynn. Tell
'em about your other adventure at Airventure '07!
What was the problem with the Jab?
Buchanan <bnn(at)nethere.com> wrote:
At 01:37 PM 8/14/2007, you wrote:
>Check out EAA's web videos to see a couple of our very own making
>the spotlight.....well, sort of. I'm sure not in a way they would
>like to be known for, but attention just the same.
Hey that's our own Lynn Farnsworth! He's a star! (I wonder what was
wrong with the Jab?) (Man that guy gets around. Last I saw him he was
at Lowell's in Cameron Park, CA.)
Guy Buchanan
San Diego, CA
K-IV 1200 / 582-C / Warp / 100% done, thanks mostly to Bob Ducar.
Do not that gives answers, not web links. _-
www.matronics.com/Navigator?Kitfox-List _-
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Lynn Matteson
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Location: Grass Lake, Michigan
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:01 am Post subject: Lynn's a Star! - Was Broken Kitfoxes |
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Marco Menezes just suggested that I tell you folks about my air-to-
air photo shoot during Airventure '07. But first I gotta preface it
with why was I doing an in-flight photo shoot.
The editor of EAA's Sport Pilot magazine suggested that I do a story
(OK, OK, I suggested that I do a story, and she went along with the
idea) about an old fart that buys an airplane kit, builds it, learns
to fly it, and gets his Sport Pilot license in it. So with that in
mind she scheduled me for a photo shoot on Monday afternoon during
Airventure. I left my camping spot about 1:30, before they shut down
the field for the afternoon show, and headed for Wautoma (Y50), about
30 miles west of Oshkosh. Landing there, I had about 3 hours to kill
before the air-to-air shoot, so I wandered about, looking at other
planes. I met a guy who owned a hangar at the field, and he took me
over to see it. He told me he always opens his hangar to visitors
from as far away as New Mexico, and Colorado, and leaves his own
Cessna sit outdoors for the week, so visitors can sleep inside his
hangar and party. He has a full bar, neon-enhanced fake tropical
trees, Dale Earnhardt Jr. posters, a huge mixer for Margaritas, a
'fridge with food, and about all you'd want to party with. I told him
maybe my photo shoot would take me into evening hours (I'd hoped) so
I would not be able to return to 'kosh, and I'd have to spend the
night. It didn't turn out that way, but I vowed to go there next year
for the night at some point.
The ground photos were shot first by Bonnie Kratz of EAA's photo
staff. She was very nice and had me position my plane in various
"poses" to catch the sun and to avoid any distracting background
stuff. That done, she went on to other planes for ground shots.
Later, I watched her getting into a harness that would safely attach
her to the photo plane, and couldn't help but comment on how it
looked like a jock strap with some parts missing. She took that
comment in good humor, thankfully. About 5:30 we took to the air. I
had been briefed that when the photo plane came alongside that I must
watch it intently, and not look away for things like, oh, traffic and
other distractions....and always smile towards the photo plane, now
called the lead plane. My smile was more of a grimmace, I think,
because after all the training of scanning for traffic, to NOT scan
is quite hard to do...unless you're fiddling with a chart, setting
the GPS, etc. Anyway, we got to the shoot area, near Lake Poygan, and
had to navigate towards a sunny area. They got the shots they wanted
of the rear of my plane...did I mention that there was a videographer
shooting as well? Well, the pilot would call out what they wanted me
to do: "Ok, now move out 10 feet and down 5 feet" "Good, now move
back about 20 feet and up 10 feet" This went on for a few minutes,
then we did a large flat circle to the left, and this was
particularly hairy, because he was on my right and constantly
crowding me to my left, but it all worked out. This maneuver was to
catch the sun's light at various angles. Finally he told me that they
were done shooting...about 20 minutes later it seemed...and that I
was to do a steep left bank away from the lead plane and leave the
photo area, which I did.
I had been told that I couldn't return to 'kosh until the Airshow
was over for the day, so I decided against just cruising around in
the crowded sky, and decided to land at Fond Du Lac, which I did. In
response to the controller's question about my intentions, I told him
I just wanted to sit out the end of the airshow and then return to
Oshkosh. He told me the show was over 45 minutes earlier, so I fired
up for departure. Nearing OSH, I was staying way out near Lake
Winnebago and calling the tower to inform them of my presence. I
didn't want to get into the traffic coming in from the south, so I
used the key phrase that I had been given earlier: "....returning
from a photo shoot from the South" That very phrase seemed to be the
magic word, because after saying it for the third time, the tower
asked my location and gave me directions. I slid into the downwind
for 18, got the call to turn base before I ever would have, and then
I got a different voice on the radio saying "Red high-winger with
white tail, turn final." I ignored this command, thinking I wasn't
red, and my tail was only *sorta* white, but when he said it again
with more authority and with the word "NOW!", he got my attention. I
quickly looked for other traffic, and made the 45 degree turn towards
the runway. He said to land just beyond the red dot, which I did, and
all ended well. As I taxied back to the Homebuilders Camping, I was
greeted by Bruce Lina and other Kitfox fliers, bowing gracefully and
giving cat-calls, and otherwise acknowledging my great flying
skills....that was what that was all about wasn't it, Bruce?
Lynn Matteson
Grass Lake, Michigan
Kitfox IV Speedster w/Jabiru 2200
flying w/369+ hrs
On Aug 23, 2007, at 6:36 AM, Lynn Matteson wrote:
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Marco-
You mean getting "busted" for having my Tiki lamps burning? (Geez,
what's wrong with having open flames in a dry(?) campsite with a
few hundred gasoline-carrying airplanes sitting nearby?)
Lynn Matteson
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wingnut
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:22 am Post subject: Re: Lynn's a Star! - Was Broken Kitfoxes |
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Fantastic story. Can't wait for that issue of Sport Pilot to arrive.
| Quote: | Marco Menezes just suggested that I tell you folks about my air-to-
air photo shoot during Airventure '07. |
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Lynn Matteson
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 2778
Location: Grass Lake, Michigan
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:52 pm Post subject: Lynn's a Star! - Was Broken Kitfoxes |
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She told me that if I got the story written by Oct 1, that it would/
could be printed in an early 2008 issue.
Lynn Matteson
Grass Lake, Michigan
Kitfox IV Speedster w/Jabiru 2200
flying w/369+ hrs
On Aug 23, 2007, at 11:22 AM, wingnut wrote:
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Fantastic story. Can't wait for that issue of Sport Pilot to arrive.
> Marco Menezes just suggested that I tell you folks about my air-to-
> air photo shoot during Airventure '07.
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Luis Rodriguez
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