March 28th Gathering/Hondo Texas

bluehawk15 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:47 pm

The B-25 Yellow Rose won't be making it, still in pieces, but coming together nicely. Parts held us back a couple of weeks. So we won't be making Victoria either.

The U-11 and Calvin Allen's T-6 are planning on coming over together. I'm going to try and get a couple of others so we can get some 4-ship practice in on the way over and back. If not it will be a spectacular 2-ship overhead and break to landing!

Cuz, what time is a good time to get there?

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:05 pm

I want to know about the time, too...

Ryan

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:40 am

Could I get a wind check for Saturday???

LadyO2Pilot · **Posted:** Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:46 am

I think it starts at 10 but Ober may correct me

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:17 am

We will be there all day. Open to the public at 10. Food around 12. Drinking at..................well thats another topic. Winds are forecasted to be breezey , I will check again this pm and post here what they say tonight.

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:18 am

Lynn Allen wrote:

Could I get a wind check for Saturday???

It's looking like that might be the fun part... they're calling for winds 15-20 with gusts as high as 30 in some places. :roll:

. Hondo should be a piece of cake with all of those runways, but our field's grass strip isn't so very big and there aren't any other choices.

Ryan

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:29 am

Not to mention the 2.5hrs ride in a blender just getting there..... :wink:

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:10 pm

Here is the "FORECAST" guys. Cool, clear and not toooooo breezy. It has got to be less wind than today. I swear I saw parts of Oklahoma come by. As it is getting dark the winds are dying and "should" be good for tommorrow. It has already cooled down, kinda sweater weather really not bad. Only problem now is do I wear shorts and show off my sexy legs, or wear a flight suit?

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:54 pm

Obergrafeter wrote:

Here is the "FORECAST" guys. Cool, clear and not toooooo breezy. It has got to be less wind than today. I swear I saw parts of Oklahoma come by. As it is getting dark the winds are dying and "should" be good for tommorrow. It has already cooled down, kinda sweater weather really not bad. Only problem now is do I wear shorts and show off my sexy legs, or wear a flight suit?

You all fly safe. Its 37 Deg's and the winds are 292 deg's 18-27 knots..

Take a lot pictures.... :wink:

Lynn

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:04 pm

You want pics of my legs or what?

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:38 am

Weather check for you guys at 05:30 Sat morning.....45 degrees, winds calm, visibility I don't know its dark outside! No winds ouside either and the temperatures' the same- I got the windows open. If you all can come on out.

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:11 am

Obergrafeter wrote:

You want pics of my legs or what?

Ahh no thanks, just the airplanes please.... :shock:

Lynn

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:16 am

Obergrafeter wrote:

Weather check for you guys at 05:30 Sat morning.....45 degrees, winds calm, visibility I don't know its dark outside! No winds ouside either and the temperatures' the same- I got the windows open. If you all can come on out.

0927 hrs... Winds 292 Deg's 20G31 here in the North 40.... It would as it would the fastest I'd flown down there....
1027 hrs...292deg's 24G33......

Lynn

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:17 pm

Lynn Allen wrote:

Obergrafeter wrote:

Weather check for you guys at 05:30 Sat morning.....45 degrees, winds calm, visibility I don't know its dark outside! No winds ouside either and the temperatures' the same- I got the windows open. If you all can come on out.

0927 hrs... Winds 292 Deg's 20G31 here in the North 40.... It would as it would the fastest I'd flown down there....
1027 hrs...292deg's 24G33......

Lynn

Hope the day turned out for you all as we even had snow flurries, well a little one this morning.

Lynn

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 6:44 pm

So we did make it to Hondo today. It was quite windy, winds 16G27 or more at times, but I decided I needed the practice. The good news was that it was straight down 31 at Hondo (but a direct crosswind at our field!). Only serious issue was taxiing. Someone may have seen me turn right into the wind in order to get back to the left! Saw Lady02, Ober, and maybe some others there. Lots of CAF. Not a lot of flying, but a decent group of folks. Aircraft were the C-47, O-2, T-6, and L-5. They're doing some nice work on that C-47. Here are some pics.

Lots of hard work has been done getting this plane to shine.

Friendly door greeters.

The interior.

The cockpit.

My ride for the day.

T-6 and O-2 on the ramp.

O-2 flown by our own WIXer.

T-6 with it's shiny spinner!

T-6

C-47

C-47 with suspects in front.

Mr. Allen's nice T-6 pass

Heading home!

The barbeque was good and we enjoyed our time there. Thanks for inviting us out!

Ryan

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