Oshkosh
2008 - In Piper Warrior II N709DF |
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Jay
Sampson and Pat Bratton's Great Adventure! |
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Jay Sampson, Calling home to
declare our arrival at Oskosh |
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N709DF parked North of Runway
9-27 at Oshkosh |
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I guess that we have officially
arrived! |
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Jay paid our entrance dues and I
got us the EAA discount. |
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Jay found the food!. The Reuben
was great! |
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WACO in bright Yellow. |
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Now we have an Airforce. The
South shall rise again. |
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Breakfast at Fondulac. Shrieners
Restruant. Everyone from the east coast would show up
before it was time to open. |
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Jay and Pat Bratton in front of
a real live P-38. "There I was, on my back at 10,000 feet with two
zeros on my tail!" |
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"I do not trust my luck to be
picked up by a Duck, After I've crashed into the sea! That is a line
from a WWII song called," I wanted wings until I got the G*d damn
things." |
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Big, Green, Flying Machine. |
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An example of a classic tail.
The B17 had all flight surfaces controlled by cables and bell cranks,
just like a Piper Warrior. |
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Pat Bratton trying to figure out
if he can fit in a Liberty XL2. "If I built the Europa, I could make it
a little wider and it would be aerobatic." |
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Those boys can fly! |
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Last one home buys the beer! |
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"Up in the sky, a man and his
plane, ..............." |
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I found the dust off ship. Where
is the crew. |
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This one's for sale. Let's see
$259,000 divided by six people, and another six to pay for the fuel,
might work. Time to fly back to Lawrenceville, Georgia and form a new LLC to buy this thing! |
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I think that 720 cubic
inches is reasonable for a Piper. I may have one put in my Warrior if I
don't stop eating pizza. |
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We say goodbye to the gentle
souls of the North country as we wing our way back to Atlanta with
memories of airplanes and great food. |