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gary1954 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:51 am

lmritger wrote:

marine air wrote:

Not too bad. Most of the aircraft are LSA or STOL type aircraft. Nothing irreplaceable like a Spitfire or Alexander Eaglerock, etc. THere was also a C-208 Caravan damaged.

Most of those planes represented something special to their owners- a realization of a life-long dream to own and fly their own plane, for instance. I know I would be just absolutely sick if it were my "lowly" STOL bird flipped, bent, folded, spindled and mutilated.

But hey, it's not a warbird, so fark'em, right?

Lynn

Yes, I kinda felt a little sickened due to the fact that the folks that put their time and/or money homebuilds, and restorations were destroyed or heavily damaged after working so hard on putting them together, all that time and money dayum. I hope they were adequately insured. Poor folks, I feel for 'em.

mustanglover · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:06 am

gary1954 wrote:

lmritger wrote:

marine air wrote:

Not too bad. Most of the aircraft are LSA or STOL type aircraft. Nothing irreplaceable like a Spitfire or Alexander Eaglerock, etc. THere was also a C-208 Caravan damaged.

Most of those planes represented something special to their owners- a realization of a life-long dream to own and fly their own plane, for instance. I know I would be just absolutely sick if it were my "lowly" STOL bird flipped, bent, folded, spindled and mutilated.

But hey, it's not a warbird, so fark'em, right?

Lynn

Yes, I kinda felt a little sickened due to the fact that the folks that put their time and/or money homebuilds, and restorations were destroyed or heavily damaged after working so hard on putting them together, all that time and money dayum. I hope they were adequately insured. Poor folks, I feel for 'em.

Hopefully they all had the EAA airshow insurance or something else.

sdennison · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:58 pm

Was thinking the same thing. Wonder how many had liability but waived the hull insurance. Many could have most of all tied up in the plane itself and took the chance. Hope not. So sad to see their hard work and love dashed by Mother Nature.

airknocker · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:47 pm

The latest updates on SNF:
http://www.eaa.org/lakeland/

billtate · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2011 10:23 pm

A few shots I took at Lakeland on March 31 and April 1. It was very scary.

the330thbg · **Joined:** Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:06 pm **Posts:** 2713

Darn shame. Could have been, much, much worse and I know that is no consolation.., but good grief that was a close storm!

Nice weld job :shock:

CAPFlyer · **Posted:** Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:40 am

billtate wrote:

A few shots I took at Lakeland on March 31 and April 1. It was very scary.

Aww.... poor wittle Bulldog...

billtate · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:48 pm

This may be a double posting I do not know what happened to the first two post. Some more Warbirds stuff on April 1st. The Warbirds community made a weak showing this year at Sun-N-Fun.

warbird2 · **Joined:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 3:03 am **Posts:** 173

I saw on the CAF websight that the president was complaining about the lack of CAF planes there this year. I wonder how many warbirds stayed away because of the weather and how many stayed away because of the high price of avgas?

gary1954 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:30 am

warbird2 wrote:

I saw on the CAF websight that the president was complaining about the lack of CAF planes there this year. I wonder how many warbirds stayed away because of the weather and how many stayed away because of the high price of avgas?

I'd just venture a wag, that it was the price of the Avgas :roll:

which my frenz, is just 2F-in' high! :Hangman:

the330thbg · **Joined:** Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:06 pm **Posts:** 2713

I'm voting on the GAZZZ

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:44 pm

Who's T-6 is that with all the "Hot Rod" Mods?
Looks interesting and I'd like to hear more about it.
Jerry

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