Warbird Information Exchange

Drove out Saturday morning for a short visit. Unfortunately high winds kept the Museums planes (except for the PT-22) on the ground while I was there.

THANK YOU for posting!
I wanted to go to this event but I had a Wing Mtg. to make with Gulf Coast Wing Saturday.
Look how hard that Stearman (It looks like Robbie Vados's) is healed over and it doesn't appear to be rolling yet.
That was one bodacious looking crosswind!

SPANNER

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I wanted to go to that, but it's not like I was having a bad day. Went with a student to Brenham, TX and had a great lunch. Looks like fun. I didn't know that Kingsbury had a PT-22? Is that their aircraft? If so...

Ryan

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Man oh Man are those some beautimus birds!

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After looking at their website, I don't see the PT-22 listed. I assumed it was theirs as it was parked in line with their planes on the field, not with the fly in planes.

Great pics!

Is that an actual rotary engine on the Triplane?

SN

Yep! 80hp Le Rhone, vintage 1919.

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Hey, that guy looks familiar......



Oh wait, it's me!

Daggum 67N20, I sure hate that I didn't get to meet you in person, but I guess I was a little busy. It was great to talk to you on the phone, and I'm mighty glad you made it out. Now maybe you can give Don and Ryan lessons on how to show up in Kingsbury......

The PT-22 belongs to Steve Freeman, brother of PFM founder Roger Freeman, and is based in Memphis, Tenn. It has a few awards under its belt, as you may imagine (it's even nicer firsthand).

The wind was a bit of a bummer, but there was still a great turnout, and zero incidents.

The worst horror tale of the day was that us Model T jocks got worn to a frazzle with some balky cars, and had to hand-crank a lot. But we're expendable, who cares? Get a horse.

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Cheers,
Kurt Maurer
League City, Texas

PIC, Ford 6600 pulling Rhino batwing up and down the runway

Since I have priv'liges, might as well use 'em. Here are a couple of the very few photos I took. One is what Olde Kingsbury Aerodrome looks like on short final from the front hole of a Meyers OTW, and the other's what the steely-eyed pilot of same looks like at nearly the same time. John Goble's his name.

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Kurt Maurer
League City, Texas

PIC, Ford 6600 pulling Rhino batwing up and down the runway

Now, now, now... you know I've been a regular. Just didn't see it coming in advance enough to re-schedule a good student's flight training.

Ryan

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Aerial Photographer with Red Wing Aerial Photography currently based at KRBD and tailwheel CFI.
Websites: Texas Tailwheel Flight Training, DoolittleRaid.com and Lbirds.com.

The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD. - Prov. 21:31 - Train, Practice, Trust.

I looked for you when I got there around 10:30 or so. First guy I saw with a black bowler was cooking the hamburgers, looked all over for another, missed the vehicles driving by.
Maybe next time.

Here are some pictures that I took at the aerodrome. I noticed the picture that I snapped of the blue Stearman landing must have been at the same moment you snapped your shot. I was doing the best I could with a really crummy camera and lens from to far away. The Goodyear Zeppelin ladder under the shed used to belong to a friend of mine. I'm a Model T Ford nut too, so I took a lot of pictures of the T's

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The Hobby vintage firetruck dude?

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He bowls overhand...He is the most interesting man in the world.
"In Peace Japan Breeds War", Eckstein, Harper and Bros., 3rd ed. 1943(1927, 1928,1942)
"Leave it to ol' Slim. I got ideas...and they're all vile, baby." South Dakota Slim
"Ahh..."The Deuce", 28,000 pounds of motherly love." quote from some Mojave Grunt
DBF

Holy cow. I've never heard of this musuem. Beautiful aircraft. Do any of them fly?



Chappie

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Only when we can find a sucker .... I mean, qualified pilot .... to jump in and give it a go. You busy this weekend?

Seriously, everything is at least ostensibly a flyer. The Bleriot is taking a rest, the D.VII awaits its Gypsy Queen to be reborn, but the Dr.I, Canuck, and the others are either reliable about flying or getting repaired/rebuilt/refinished/stared at/etc. The Canuck is having a valve issue at present, but it'd have been too dicey to fly at the show anyway, probably, with that crosswind we had. The Dr.I, no way, but it performed a snarling little engine run to keep the masses amused, and got a hearty round of applause upon shutdown as always.

The mission is to make everything there run and be operable; bikes, cars, airplanes, everything. But it's the same old song: we need more active volunteers, and more money, not necessarily in that order.

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Cheers,
Kurt Maurer
League City, Texas

PIC, Ford 6600 pulling Rhino batwing up and down the runway