Chaplain gave me my last rights when I was 20 and I fooled them. I'm going to keep on fooling them.
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Only 75. I'm 76 and trying to have fun.
Good for Leonard
Leonard was a tail gunner on a B17 during the war. He plans on flying one of his Legal Eagle airplanes on his birthday and is working on his stand up routine for the party.
I'm not trying I am having fun. But after surgery, radiation, chemo and now more chemo I'm being realistic. Everyday is a treat, I'm living in a great place with a great family and friends, doing what I thoroughly enjoy and for now no worries!
I'm a 3 time cancer survivor and, like you I am enjoying life. I absolutely love working on gyros (but now, only mine) It's time to fly again. I am out at my hangar nearly everyday and slowly working 10 hrs or more. If I hit a stumbling block, I move to the other gyro, then to my hot rod project, or rewiring my sailboat.
So glad you are feeling well again, Tommy and in a good place - I got the impression last year at Mentone - you almost felt like you would be lucky to have another 6 months on the "sunny-side-of-the sod"!I'm a 3 time cancer survivor and, like you I am enjoying life. I absolutely love working on gyros (but now, only mine) It's time to fly again. I am out at my hangar nearly everyday and slowly working 10 hrs or more. If I hit a stumbling block, I move to the other gyro, then to my hot rod project, or rewiring my sailboat.
I love weather dynamics so during Covid I took on line courses and became a meteorologist, I joined the AMS and took classes to become a Skywarn tornado Spotter. I need to hang around Christine's area and watch the clouds.
If we lost the public-use - non-profit status for Mentone airport the local property taxes would be 10K/year!
A letter size printable brochure that I can stick in the lap of students, clients, gyro wonnabees that come through my hangar...
This actually is not a bad idea... a "real" runway must be suitable for heavier airplanes, but gyros are not heavy, and most of us are good enough to touch down softly.
What we currently have is a "hard- -smoother than the "rough-as-a-cob" grass, sealed surface" ..... BUT what we have noticed for last several years that the poor initial foundation has succumbed to the Indiana local soil & winter frost-heaving!
This is easy to think because we live in areas that don’t have freezing weather for weeks or months like they do. I have seen roads between Indianapolis and Rochester that were brand new one year the next year they were cracked and had numerous potholes. Concrete doesn’t fair any better either. The freezing weather destroys it too. So as with anything I imagine you get what you pay for.
The PRA used to have a tri-fold brochure that we handed out at our booth @Oshkosh. Dennis Fetters used to provide PRA membership with a gyro purchase. Flight instructors and chapters also had access to the handouts.
