Ride to Oshkosh from Colorado

Bill Greenwood · **Posted:** Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:19 am

I am planning to leave Boulder Sat morning for Oshkosh, probably one stop in route. Alas, no Spitfire, but a capable Bonanza. I expect to have room for one, maybe two, you buy the fuel when we stop. I may have the same seat on the return the following weekend. Housing is up to you.
This would be a good chance for someone who is a student or private pilot who needs to log some retractable or complex time, mine is a Be 36TC. PM me if interested and do it soon as I will be gone Fri by noon.

Bluedharma · **Posted:** Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:14 pm

Bill have a good trip to Oshkosh.

Regards,
-Stuck in CO.

jlittle2 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:17 pm

Bill,

Have a safe trip, and if I could secure the time off, I would tkae you up on the 2nd or 3rd seat offer, but the boss is not being at all cooperative. He believes that my business photography of airplanes is not something a "mature" person should be doing......<grin>

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:22 pm

John,
By chance I have a friend named John Little from CO was flew P-40s in WWII, was at Pearl Harbor and commanded a squadron on Guadalcanal

jlittle2 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:14 pm

Nope, that would not be anyone from my family.... we are all Texas born, fed, and raised.

I did have one uncle that flew in WWII, he flew the "Hump" in B-24's, and a second uncle who came out of C-47's during the war to C-119's after the end of the war.

The C-119 was a workhorse but the thing would crash and just burn up! That happened to the one uncle, he substained 3rd degree over 50%, and survived, but just barely.

Never could get on an airplane again for the rest of his life (with good reasons)

Bill Greenwood · **Posted:** Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:26 am

Don't worry John, WIX is about airplanes, it has nothing to do with mature persons.

jlittle2 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:37 am

Amen Bill.......Amen.

btw have you seen the fly corridor documents for the DNC Security Advisory? I hope no one needs to fly around much for 3 days...ALL VFR and IFR traffic in the area for the 3 days, can't move without special squawk codes from ATC (and you had better have a dog gone good reason to be in the area), altitude and position restrictions, etc.

Best words in the document " Be advised that noncompliance with the published NOTAM may result in the use of force"......"Yey you in the Cessna 172, bend over and say goodbye, cause we are about to blast you out of the sky"

Ah...our government !

Misterg97 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:01 am

John,

Your note was interesting as I volunteer with a gentlemen who was a nose gunner on a 24 in WWII flying out of China ... and secondly, I never went down in a 119, Thank God, ... but you are correct in that she was a workhorse in Korea.

Waiting for your photography website as I took photogtaphy in college under my Korean GI bill ... All B&W of course.

jlittle2 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:09 am

My uncle flew fuel loaded B-24's, he called it a "flying gas can", and dreaded it for the two years he flew on board as the fuel would leak out everywhere, and one spark was all it took. Got lucky that nothing bad ever happened

The C-119 incident was an accident and ruled as such back then, the problem is all the fule feed lines cross through the interior of the plane and when she did go in, it just blew up all around them.

Not to throw a bad image on it all, when the plane was doused out, they found all of the rolls of change he had in his pockets (from his seat location), and it had melted together.

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