Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Mon Nov 14, 2011 4:20 pm
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.
Re: Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Mon Nov 14, 2011 4:27 pm
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
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
Re: Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Mon Nov 14, 2011 4:53 pm
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
Ryan
Re: Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Mon Nov 14, 2011 5:01 pm
Man oh Man are those some beautimus birds!
Re: Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Mon Nov 14, 2011 5:38 pm
RyanShort1 wrote: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
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.
Re: Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Mon Nov 14, 2011 5:55 pm
Great pics!
Is that an actual rotary engine on the Triplane?
SN
Is that an actual rotary engine on the Triplane?
SN
Re: Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Mon Nov 14, 2011 6:08 pm
Yep! 80hp Le Rhone, vintage 1919.
Re: Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Mon Nov 14, 2011 7:44 pm
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.
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.
Re: Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:20 pm
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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Re: Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:44 pm
Pogo wrote: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......
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
Re: Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:15 pm
Pogo wrote: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.
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.
Re: Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:30 am
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 
Re: Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Wed Nov 16, 2011 5:24 pm
carlisle1926 wrote:The Goodyear Zeppelin ladder under the shed used to belong to a friend of mine.
The Hobby vintage firetruck dude?
Re: Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Wed Nov 16, 2011 6:51 pm
Holy cow. I've never heard of this musuem. Beautiful aircraft. Do any of them fly?
Chappie
Chappie
Re: Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas
Wed Nov 16, 2011 7:08 pm
Chappie wrote:Holy cow. ........ Do any of them fly?
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.
