Inflight Entertainment => The missing link => Topic started by: TheSoccerMom on February 16, 2008, 11:25:38 PM
Title: "Ladies! Start your engines!!"
Post by: TheSoccerMom on February 16, 2008, 11:25:38 PM
Continue the tradition of Women's Air Racing!!
The 2008 Race will start in Bozeman, Montana, and end in Mansfield, Massachusettes.
More details are available at www.airraceclassic.org (http://www.airraceclassic.org)
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Post by: Rooster Cruiser on February 16, 2008, 11:32:51 PM
As the Late, Great, Will Rogers once quipped; The Powder Puff Derby!
Ya gotta love it! ::bow::
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Post by: Rooster Cruiser on February 16, 2008, 11:35:23 PM
I see that the route takes them through Aberdeen, South Dakota. I used to live there, and I flew charter there for years. About five years ago, the Marion Jayne Air Race went through ABR, and my employer was a sponsor. I spent the entire day listening to CTAF and time stamping racers' cards as they flew overhead on the timed race course. Was a fun time.
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Post by: Oddball on February 16, 2008, 11:50:13 PM
if they have to fly to aberdeen they will need long range tanks a long way from there to here lol
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Post by: Rooster Cruiser on February 17, 2008, 01:42:56 AM
Lol Ian. There are three cities in the USA I know of offhand that are named after Aberdeen Scotland. Those are Aberdeen Maryland, Aberdeen Mississippi, and Aberdeen South Dakota. There may be more, but I am too lazy to do the research.
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Post by: Oddball on February 17, 2008, 03:26:33 AM
and there are at least a half dozen Perth's scattered around the world as well ::bow::
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Post by: G-man on February 17, 2008, 04:13:01 AM
I see that the route takes them through Aberdeen, South Dakota.
This was my lunch stop in Aberdeen, SD, when I was doing the powerlines in December.. The airport was on the other side of the road, but there was no courtesy car, so we took our own transport.. ::whistle:: ::whistle::
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Post by: Rooster Cruiser on February 17, 2008, 04:46:09 AM
G-Man, I can see that nothing has changed since I left there 3 years ago. Did you meet Ron in person? He is an old acquaintance of mine. I used to get box lunches from him for my charters. Ron used to have his restaurant on the airport across the street, but when they built the new Airline terminal, the powers that be shut him out. Typical local politics.. ::complaining: ::complaining: ::complaining: ::banghead:: ::banghead:: ::banghead::
You should have gotten fuel at Aberdeen Flying Service, at the Texaco sign. Mark Caven would have been more than happy to loan you a car. Why don't you ask me about this stuff in advance? ::unbelieveable::
Title: Re: "Ladies! Start your engines!!"
Post by: G-man on February 17, 2008, 05:07:28 AM
G-Man, I can see that nothing has changed since I left there 3 years ago. Did you meet Ron in person? He is an old acquaintance of mine. I used to get box lunches from him for my charters. Ron used to have his restaurant on the airport across the street, but when they built the new Airline terminal, the powers that be shut him out. Typical local politics.. ::complaining: ::complaining: ::complaining: ::banghead:: ::banghead:: ::banghead::
You should have gotten fuel at Aberdeen Flying Service, at the Texaco sign. Mark Caven would have been more than happy to loan you a car. Why don't you ask me about this stuff in advance? ::unbelieveable::
Thats what the line rider said that the restaurant used to be on the airport. Typical politics huh..
Yep, they said that the car was loaned out right before we got there..otherwise we could have used it..next time..
Title: Re: "Ladies! Start your engines!!"
Post by: gibbo_335 on February 20, 2008, 09:23:52 PM
The 2008 Race will start in Bozeman, Montana, and end in Mansfield, Massachusettes.
More details are available at www.airraceclassic.org (http://www.airraceclassic.org)
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'Mom FIRE UP THAT MINVAN and line up on the starting grid!!!! Woo Hoo that sound like F U N!!!!! |:)\
Maybe they should change it to Mansfield here in Brisbane...then we could clean up a few Crownies ::whistle:: ::drinking:: :D ::rofl::
Title: Re: "Ladies! Start your engines!!"
Post by: TheSoccerMom on February 21, 2008, 04:05:21 AM
;D Yeehaw!! You bet, here she comes..... uh... yeah.. I think I hear an airplane coming... hey do YOU see one?!? ::silly::
It'd be fun.. I never have done any racing (if you don't count trying to beat cells' downdrafts to the runway ::eek::)... a couple 99s I know said their last air race was in a Husky... they must have had 95 years or so of flying experience between them, and they said it was a TOTAL BLAST.... ::bow::
Maybe some day we can try it out!!! :D
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Post by: Frank N. O. on February 21, 2008, 04:07:58 AM
Sounds like fun, and unlike with cars then there aren't the same speed limits and not the same dangers (I think). Do you need a helper, or a support-plane? :D
Frank
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Post by: Fabo on February 21, 2008, 01:20:24 PM
Eh, racing, with Minivan... uhm...
maybe you could try to fly in reverse? ::)
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Post by: Oddball on February 21, 2008, 04:30:55 PM
lol even my model trainer can go faster than the minivan want to race that
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Post by: airtac on February 21, 2008, 07:32:37 PM
Hey Mom, You could install ferry tank, porta potty, kitchen, bed, washer, and a treadmill, then you could go non-stop----wouldn't be the fastest but it certainly would be the coolest ::)
Title: Re: "Ladies! Start your engines!!"
Post by: TheSoccerMom on February 22, 2008, 11:22:25 PM
Know of a Minivan that has all that... well, not sure about the treadmill, but it has leather furniture, DVD player, big TV, Laz-Y-Boy recliner, etc., etc.... I guess it's so heavy (AND it's on floats besides!) that they can only do short hops.... but, hey, what a way to go...... ::rofl::
::loony:: :D
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Post by: happylanding on March 20, 2008, 06:28:56 PM
Whoa, that's lovely! A female airshow! :-) I was starting to forget what does flying mean in the last months and finally last week I could go. I started the passage on the DA40. Will keep you updated! :-)
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Post by: Fabo on March 20, 2008, 08:24:55 PM
Wow, the Star! Amazing little diesel, are you going to fly on All-G-1000 or analogue version?
Title: Re: "Ladies! Start your engines!!"
Post by: happylanding on March 20, 2008, 09:17:05 PM
Wow, the Star! Amazing little diesel, are you going to fly on All-G-1000 or analogue version?
Garmin 1000 equipped! looks like flying IFR! :-)
Title: Re: "Ladies! Start your engines!!"
Post by: Fabo on March 20, 2008, 09:32:02 PM
I dont like that one :(
This kind of cockpit is more like me :) http://www.airliners.net/photo/Antonov-Design-Bureau/Antonov-An-225-Mriya/1154972/L/ (http://www.airliners.net/photo/Antonov-Design-Bureau/Antonov-An-225-Mriya/1154972/L/)
Title: Re: "Ladies! Start your engines!!"
Post by: happylanding on March 20, 2008, 09:43:14 PM
This kind of cockpit is more like me :) http://www.airliners.net/photo/Antonov-Design-Bureau/Antonov-An-225-Mriya/1154972/L/ (http://www.airliners.net/photo/Antonov-Design-Bureau/Antonov-An-225-Mriya/1154972/L/)
Well, my cockpit has lately been a computer and....see, this image should give you an idea... Yes, it's my desk at work! :-)
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Post by: Rooster Cruiser on March 20, 2008, 10:44:57 PM
Whoa, that's lovely! A female airshow! :-) I was starting to forget what does flying mean in the last months and finally last week I could go. I started the passage on the DA40. Will keep you updated! :-)
Ah, changes are coming to aviation. I wonder when somebody will install a Caterpillar engine in an airplane. Now THAT would be an appropriate airplane for a broken down old truck driver! Hehe ::loony:: ::loony:: ::loony::
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Post by: Fabo on March 20, 2008, 11:29:34 PM
Well Happy, that looks somehow familiar... yes, I look around and see quite much the same, just a bt bigger :)
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Post by: airtac on March 23, 2008, 03:05:25 AM
Whoa, that's lovely! A female airshow! :-) I was starting to forget what does flying mean in the last months and finally last week I could go. I started the passage on the DA40. Will keep you updated! :-)
Ah, changes are coming to aviation. I wonder when somebody will install a Caterpillar engine in an airplane. Now THAT would be an appropriate airplane for a broken down old truck driver! Hehe ::loony:: ::loony:: ::loony::
If you're gonna hang a 3406 on the front of the Platypuss, you'll need a couple of tons in the back for ballast ::loony::
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Post by: Oddball on March 23, 2008, 09:39:32 AM
not to mention strengthen the whole thing lol might as well stick wings on your rig rooster lol
