Pioneer Flight Museum Fall Fly In - Kingsbury, Texas

carlisle1926 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:07 pm

airnutz wrote:

carlisle1926 wrote:

The Goodyear Zeppelin ladder under the shed used to belong to a friend of mine.

The Hobby vintage firetruck dude?

That is the guy. I'm an antique fire truck nut as well.

airnutz · **Posted:** Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:53 am

carlisle1926 wrote:

airnutz wrote:

carlisle1926 wrote:

The Goodyear Zeppelin ladder under the shed used to belong to a friend of mine.

The Hobby vintage firetruck dude?

That is the guy. I'm an antique fire truck nut as well.

I called him up one time and asked if he was looking for any antique truck parts. I told him about this guy in Kingsbury who restored/replicated WW1 and antique aircraft who had some old vehicle stuff as well. He mentioned the Zeppelin ladder in the conversation and wondered if there would be any interest. I gave him Roger's number, saying ya' never know, call him up...ya'll may horsetrade a bit. Thanks for the pics, I'd never seen the ladder!

Funny how things work. Some of that old truck stuff in the boneyard came from a collecter in East Houston near Galena Park. Funny that some of it may have found its' way back to Houston! :lol:

To paraphrase Steve McQueen's Poppa character, "old stuff is cool, new stuff is junk."..

carlisle1926 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:10 am

I bet some of the antique truck stuff came from T.E. Cory trucking on Market Street near Normandy street. He used to have a large amount of early trucks stored on I-10 east in Channelview as well. Mr. Cory told me a collector near Seguin had bought up some of his trucks, but I never put the link together.
I have the keys to Chuck's firetruck warehouse at Hobby. It is an amazing place. A lot of early chain drive American LaFrance fire trucks are in there. There is nothing like the sound of a 900 cubic inch T-head 6cylinder engine.
I really like what they are doing out at the Kingsbury Aerodrome. If they were closer to me, I would be out there a lot.

67N20 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:02 am

Chappie wrote:

Holy cow. I've never heard of this musuem. Beautiful aircraft. Do any of them fly?

Chappie

Here's a link to the Pioneer Flight Museum's website:

http://pioneerflightmuseum.org/

Pogo · **Posted:** Thu Nov 17, 2011 9:48 am

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If they were closer to me, I would be out there a lot.

Yep, that's a problem. It's 2 hours drive time for the guys on the west side of Houston, but comes to 3.5 to 4 hours to you and me. I need a helicopter.

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Here's a link to the Pioneer Flight Museum's website:

http://pioneerflightmuseum.org/

Thanks for adding that, 67 -- makes me wish I had a working brain sometimes. :roll:

airnutz · **Posted:** Thu Nov 17, 2011 6:12 pm

carlisle1926 wrote:

I bet some of the antique truck stuff came from T.E. Cory trucking on Market Street near Normandy street. He used to have a large amount of early trucks stored on I-10 east in Channelview as well. Mr. Cory told me a collector near Seguin had bought up some of his trucks, but I never put the link together.

That name rings a bell, but it was about 10 years ago...the locations are spot on. The loads I helped with were at I-10 in Channelview. I thought Corey donated the stuff to the museum, but who knows what horsetrading was going on or with possibly a third party donating the rest to Roger...he was kinda land-rich there at the aerodrome.

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I really like what they are doing out at the Kingsbury Aerodrome. If they were closer to me, I would be out there a lot.

Amen to that! It'd be great to set up some old RV's there and run off to the flying circus once in a while or over the weekends. Deer camp it and build schtufff!

RickH · **Posted:** Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:56 pm

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I need a helicopter.

Funny you should mention that, we flew right by at 800 MSL on the way back to Houston coming home from the Randolph AFB airshow !

Pogo · **Posted:** Sat Nov 19, 2011 6:44 pm

So now all I gotta do is call, and I get a Huey ride to K'bury? Cool! Thanks Rick, you're a pal!

Here are some more pics from the Fall Fly-In last weekend for those interested:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wanam3/set ... 145072264/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79103259@N ... 129067068/

carlisle1926 · **Posted:** Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:15 pm

Great set of photos Kurt!

Pogo · **Posted:** Sat Nov 19, 2011 8:02 pm

Thanks -- But I might hasten to add that they're not by me, but from friends. If anyone wants to know who for prints or whatever, just PM.

carlisle1926, I regret we didn't meet. Or maybe if we did, that I wasn't quite aware of "who you are". Seems like WIX'ers oughta wear dayglo derbies or something.... :supz:

RickH · **Posted:** Sat Nov 19, 2011 8:26 pm

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So now all I gotta do is call, and I get a Huey ride to K'bury? Cool! Thanks Rick, you're a pal!

Happy to help ! Oh and when you call, don't forget to bring your checkbook ! Your LARGE checkbook, that solves SO many problems !

Canso42 · **Posted:** Sat Nov 19, 2011 9:10 pm

Carlisle1926, have you ever seen the restored 1923 LaFrance at Brenham FD?

I had a thoroughly good time at Kingsbury. Pogo tried to teach me a bit of Model T lore but mostly we buzzed the field in the ambulance.
That was the first time I have ever seen a rotary engine running. Castor Oil? HaaawwwwK! Ptoo! hmm , tastes like an old two stroke moto xer.
I shot a bunch of pix too. Just before I left, I spotted a photo op of the PT-22 in the late afternoon sun. I clumb up on the fence, steadying myself on a light pole until the pole started leaning too! Yikes!

Ryan, I hope y'all liked the Souther Flyer Diner. If you flew in on 16 or out on 34, you overflew my house. Give me a tad of advance notice next flight and I'll meet you for chow.

carlisle1926 · **Posted:** Sun Nov 20, 2011 12:25 am

I think that we might ought to wear something to identify fellow WIXers.
--Canso42--- I haven't seen the LaFrance that Brenham has. I had the privilege of working on a 1926 American LaFrance today. I'm about to build a bar out of the front end of a 1947 LaFrance that I parted out a few months back to get the Lycoming V12 out of it- same engine as an Auburn car.

Canso42 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2011 5:55 pm

In case any of you felt an earthquake last week, I finally learned how to use photobucket. Here's a few of my pix from Kingsbury.
This was the first time I've ever seen a rotary engine run.

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[IMG]http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj50/Ratch5/IMG_4517.jpg[/IMG]

Robbie taxis in flying Dan Kubecka's PT-17 that he restored.

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Canso42 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2011 5:56 pm

Hmmph. obviously I cant operate photobucket here.

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