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Elroy13
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David Wayne Hooks Airport in Tomball, TX will be in two weeks. Rides are available on the museums B-17, B-25 & PT-17 Stearman. If you didnt get a chance to come out to Conroe last weekend nows your chance!!

And not to mention the great food at the FBO grill!! :wink:

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Here are a few pics of the weekends event.
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Hooks is a nice airport; I wish it did not have the control tower to deal with. The grill/snack bar is good. Do they ever have an airshow there? I might stop by on the way to Galveston. I considered going to the fight school there, but the housing situation was a problem. I met a nice guy Terry? Sunday, who is an airline pilot and owns a Stearman. He let me hangar for a few days at no charge. Another visit I spoke to the man who had the T-34 school there. I came fairly close to flying with them, but it was expensive. Late they had the accident when the wing came off.

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They've had a fly-in/carshow before. But never an airshow. Parking would be a major factor...there isnt enough space. Same goes for ramp space & crowd line. Probably not the best place for one. But its a great little airport and Aviators Grill has good food!

The best part of this past weekend was a V-22 Osprey came in. I was in the B-17 out on a flight when it came in but I did get a chance to see the departure!! It was really cool!! 8) And we had an Apache buzz the field a few times! And not to mention a Navy T-6 II!

And thanks for the pics TIM!!!

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Good job Tim. Good to meet another WIXer in person. I like the ones of the 'Bird on finals and the one of #2 burping a big cloud of blue smoke!

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