The 456 makes a good airport runner, though if it were any longer it wouldn't fit in the hangar. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Running the pylons in my Pitts at the Reno Air Races. Been doing this for 22 years now. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Here is my International Paper (8.4x11.0) taking flight in the skies over San Francisco! Image Unavailable, Please Login
Image Unavailable, Please Login Sure— it’s a Harmon Rocket II. experimental home built designed by John here at Bakersfield Muni. It’s actually a “Manda design Mk II.” It’s a kit where you order a Vans RV-4 with deleted sections that allow for wider fuselage shorter wings, more fuel and useable weight and the big 6 cylinder engine with titanium landing fixed gear. This one took ten years. Painted at FlyingKolors in Riverside,ca. Tail dragger only. Thanks for asking, I bought this one 40% done from a local doctor who needed money to fund his Paso Robles winery.
I’ve flown into the Aurora, OR airport for Van’s homecoming a couple times during our building an RV-7a.
Is that single seat, or two seat? Aurora has some cool stuff tucked away in the hangars there... a friend of mine keeps his DC-3, Stearman, and Citation there. I'm more of a Hillsboro guy, for whatever that's worth. Some cool stuff at my airport as well.
Image Unavailable, Please Login Besides driving my 308, I only dream of flying this.... Big fan of it since 74, but never got the nerve to buy one.... but maybe I should get my license first!!!
BD-5? Yeah, buying it isn't the part that takes nerves. It's the first time you strap it on... or any time you strap it on, for that matter.
I once got to sit in a BD-5J, truly an airplane that you don't get in, you put on. I'm only 5'9" and my head barely cleared the closed canopy. Of course it had a sidestick; there would not have been enough room for a conventional one!
Shortly before I cut in front of a C172 in the pattern— gotta send in one of those FAA “get out of jail free cards.” Image Unavailable, Please Login
Here is a picture of my 575M Maranello and my Beechcraft C-55 Baron at Van Nuys airport. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
C-55 is a great airplane! Actually, all the 55 Barons are wonderful, but the engines on the C/D/E are the perfect setup.
I use to enjoy turning base at the numbers sometimes. Could do it in the Decathlon and Columbia. The Skyhawks were such floaters and hard to get down, even towards the end of training some of the patterns were bomber class.
