Warbird Information Exchange

Woohoo! I'm glad Tom is a good supporter of Geneseo.

Eric

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The air resounds from the Rolls-Royce roar!
To an enemy the warning is dire: here only eagles soar,
and the last thing he'll see is a mirrored Spitfire!

Here are some pics from the Covey Trails Fly-in. What a great group of people, and some nice planes too!
Inbound

Short final

Nice grass strip!

Raybourne Thompsons hangar


Last flight for the crowd





Other aircraft in attendance






A few classic cars were displayed

for mustangdriver

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"If I had to fight the same war over again, I'd sure want to fight it from the cockpit of a Corsair."
-Archie Donahue

Tim

Do you know Blake and Sandy Thomas at Covey Trails? I met them back in the old BT-13 days(SNV for Blake)he has an RV7 now IIRC? Tell them Big Steve from Georgia said Hay!

Steve

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"Any excuse is good enough if you're willing to use it!"

I went with Bob Dixon, and Sandy Thomas was our host. Blake was out of town. Bob and Blake flew F-15's together. Here is their RV.



Tim

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"If I had to fight the same war over again, I'd sure want to fight it from the cockpit of a Corsair."
-Archie Donahue

But that's a Stoddard-Hamilton Glasair III...

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Ryan Keough
Stow, MA

goes to show how much I know about non warbirds It is a nice looking plane and the cockpit is immaculate.

Tim

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"If I had to fight the same war over again, I'd sure want to fight it from the cockpit of a Corsair."
-Archie Donahue

i have to say, if i had the money that is the spitfire i would buy. i love the d day stripes.

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i ain't getting on no plane!

That is pretty fine, a Spitfire, Cub, and Stearman on a beautiful grass strip. And it looks like a good VFR day. Do you have the size of the Covey Trails strip? I have only looked at it from the air and with the power lilnes at the north end it looks fairly short.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

What is it about a Spitfire and a cub on the grass that just looks right.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Director

Bill, Covey Trails, Fulshear, TX ( XO9) is 17/35, 3,365ft X 100ft. Displaced threshold 35 is 250 ft, 17 is displaced 315 ft.

Rick, thanks for the info, I am not near the airport book now. It takes me about 2500 feet to stop after a normal touchdown with no wind. In a lighter single seat Spit at sea level 3000 feet is not a problem, but those wires seem pretty high and one could not afford to float too far down. Takoff is certainly no problem, wires or not.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

Hey Tim, great pics, and thanks for thinking of me with the Mustang pics. I love the ol' stangs. Cars and planes.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Director