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 Post subject: My First Stearman Time
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Just got back from my first Stearman experience. What a great time! Thanks to my good friend Stan, he let me do some biplane piloting. I think I like that bird alot. :wink: Cold bugger today though, but who cares?

Thanks Buddy! 8)

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Cool! Or should I say Cooooold!!! I know you all brushed freezing last night. I envy your flight though, sound like you had fun.

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Awesome! I love Stearmans and have a few hours in them. That is the first plane that I did aerobatics in. What fun!


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Scott,

This thread is worthless without pics! :wink:

Glad to hear that you got to go up in a Big Boned Boeing Biplane. Now maybe you'll get smart and stop messing around with these Fairchilds and start playing with the Stearmans. I know where there are a few projects for sale... Remember we talked about this at Oshkosh this year?

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When the pof east was at fcm we got rides in just about everything. B-17 ,b-25 ,corsair etc. but the most relaxing was the stearman. nice and slow and open air with bug's and av gas and all sorts of things.

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Awesome Scott! If we get some decent weather, let's go fly the PT-26 in the next few weeks.


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Steven M. Dennis wrote:
Scott,

This thread is worthless without pics! :wink:

Glad to hear that you got to go up in a Big Boned Boeing Biplane. Now maybe you'll get smart and stop messing around with these Fairchilds and start playing with the Stearmans. I know where there are a few projects for sale... Remember we talked about this at Oshkosh this year?

Steve :wink:


Yeah Steve, I know but this was a truly impromptu deal.. I happened to see him at the hangar which is located right where I dome out of our driveway at work. I stopped to get a couple of his CD's (fellow musician) and wound up helping him move the T-6 out and get the Stearman out as well. He said, "Ever been up in a Stearman?" "Nope." "C'mon." Didn't have to ask me twice and we were off. No camera time and all the pictures I took in my little brain are great, if you get my drift.

Maybe another time. It's a local trainer that was stationed in Iowa during the war, I think. He said that he actually landed at the former base and taxied to the wrong side of the airport, found a gagle of pictures in the OPs building that included his own plane.

By the way, I'll get that header off to you this week. :?

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Awesome Scott! If we get some decent weather, let's go fly the PT-26 in the next few weeks.


Works for me Maj. Have a great trip.

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My first warbird ride was in the LSFM Stearman last fall after the Thunderbirds at WOH, a great experience.


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