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I'm heading up to Osh Kosh tomorrow with mandolin in tow. Any other pilots out there going to the big show? There's always some good jams in the campgrounds and a little BG on the Theater in the Woods stage on Thursday and Friday nights.
GVD
Hey GVD
Wish I was going...haven't been in years.
YOu have your own plane youi fly up there? If you do, just be carefull..
Let me know how it goes..........
Mike
Chris "Bucket" Thomas
Jul-25-2005, 8:39pm
I MIGHT go on Friday.......
How other mandolin player pilots are there out there?
Chris
Bob A
Jul-25-2005, 11:35pm
I'd like to go, but my medical's expired and I need a BFR and I've spent too much on mandolins to be able to afford the flight. They're sucking $3.70/gal out of us for 100LL, and the military is threatening to blow us out of the sky here in the DC area if we mess up. Somehow they've taken a lot of the pleasure out of flying in the last few years.
El Rey del Mando
Jul-26-2005, 8:34am
I have been flying since 1989.I have almost 1600 hours.I was only to Osh Kosh once.In thoes years,I have owned a 78 Grumman AA5B,3 Stinson voyagers,(one of which I restored myself), a 1956 Cessna 180 and 3 Citabrias,1966,68 7GCAA,98 7GCAA.I was based out of BDR in stratford CT.The only instrument that ever flew with me was my banjo.I would fly to Jaffery NH.to jam with a friend of mine who worked at Fiddlers Choice in Jaffery,right next door to the airport.I have time loged in,Pits S2B,Extra 300,Waco YMF5,Kinner Bird,Cessna 172,and a few others.
John
Wow John those are some sweet aircraft you been flying. I'm in the market for a Stinson myself, you don't have one for sell do you? I had planned to fly up this afternoon in a 1946 Taylorcraft but it looks like mother nature may have other plans. Weve got a pretty good storm system over Wichita right now and the TCart sure as heck can't get over it so it looks like a 800 mile road trip instead. Oh well I'd rather do that than not be around to catch a few more sunsets.
GVD
reindoggy
Jul-26-2005, 3:16pm
It was plenty wet with some lightning last night, and it's cloudy today. Maybe you'll get a break from the heat. I sure enjoy seeing those purdy flying machines. Be safe!
Reindog
tstackho
Jul-26-2005, 4:54pm
Whoa, How about this? I was planning to go and cancelled at the last minute. Never gave a thought there might be other mando pickers that are flyers. I've been flying since 1992. This weekend I'm flying my buddy and myself to Portland ME to attend the Ossippee Valley Bluegrass Festival. He's competing in the flatpicking contest and I'm backing him up on guitar. We're getting there in my J model Mooney.
Feel like swinging by NY to pick me up? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/blues.gif
Karen Kay
Jul-26-2005, 9:22pm
GVD ~
A pilot - huh?
Maybe I will let you 'borrow' the Davis.. if you'd take me up. (on a plane, that is)
Possibly you could sing that cool song you wrote the lyrics to & since you'll be busy flying, I'll supply the accompaniment.
Karen
Windflite
Jul-27-2005, 7:10am
Another flyin' mando picker here. #Sold my Beech A23-24 (200hp Musketeer) two years ago. #Never had the guts to fly into Oshkosk, nor did I ever think to bring my mando, but what a GREAT idea! #I flew mine mainly for business trips, but did fly into Winfield (Strother Field) for the festival several times. # Although MAS can be draining on the old pocketbook, it ain't nothin compared to A(irplane)AS. #Like the saying goes, the two happiest days in the life of an #airplane owner are the day he bought his plane and the day he sold it! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Chris "Bucket" Thomas
Jul-27-2005, 9:15am
One for fun:
Chris "Bucket" Thomas
Jul-27-2005, 9:17am
One for work:
-the mando gets strapped into the jumpseat behind me
Its good to see other aviators on the site....Great pictures all..keep 'em coming!
Mike
Windflite
Jul-27-2005, 2:50pm
The mighty (now sold!) Musketeer.
Well I finally got back and more importantly got some badly needed sleep. I didn't get as much picking in as I would have liked but had a great time anyway. White KNight and Space Ship One, Global Flyer and Glacier Girl were just some of the obvious highlights. Meeting Burt Rutan is about as good as it gets in the aviation world but as an ex racer meeting Carroll Shelby too was like hitting a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth of the World Series.
GVD
Burt and Sir Richard.
GVD
mandoman4807
Aug-02-2005, 8:49am
One for work:
-the mando gets strapped into the jumpseat behind me
Is that one of those Boeing want to be Airbus 319/320? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Hey Bucket, is that Airbus in normal or mechanical law in that picture?
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Darrell
Joe F
Aug-02-2005, 10:20am
GVD,
I still kick myself when I think that I lived an hour's drive from Oshkosh in the late 70s and early 80s, but never made it to the show.
Some day, I hope Burt Rutan is widely recognized as the aviation genius he truly is.
Chris "Bucket" Thomas
Aug-02-2005, 10:25am
"Hey Bucket, is that Airbus in normal or mechanical law in that picture? "
I only have to know the answer to that once a year at re-current!
It is "Fi'-Fi' " the wonder plane! You gotta love the one you are with........so.....
Did I mention that I will be switching planes? I am ready....
I think I may fly my Vagabond out to Galax (Old Time Fiddlers Convention) for a day or so next week.
Chris
mandoman4807
Aug-02-2005, 3:53pm
Hey Bucket.
What equipment are you switching to? I thought jetBlue was all Airbus.
Darrell
Chris "Bucket" Thomas
Aug-02-2005, 7:16pm
The brand new Emb-190. It has 100 seats, it will be the first airliner in the US certified with dual HUDS.
GVD...
Thanks for keeping us up to date on the Holy Grail of the Aviation Comunnity..
Glad you had a good time and met some great people..
I too have taken the Mando with me on trips in our planes. I think that I have the distinction of playing the Mando at FL380 over the Hudson Bay!
Flyer Posted
..I too have taken the Mando with me on trips in our planes. I think that I have the distinction of playing the Mando at FL380 over the Hudson Bay!
FL380 Wow thats only about 37,000 some odd feet over where I usually fly. My vision is getting so bad that I have to fly pretty close to the ground to know where the heck I'm at. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
Does anybody know who was playing with Mike Snider at Oshkosh Friday night? Man them boys was flat tearing it up.
Oh did I forget to mention they had bombs there too?
GVD
mandoman4807
Aug-03-2005, 9:24pm
GVD...
I too have taken the Mando with me on trips in our planes. I think that I have the distinction of playing the Mando at FL380 over the Hudson Bay!
At least it wasn`t in the sterile cockpit environment http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
Darrell
Thats for sure mandoman...
Hope there is no Feds watchin' http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Mike
mandoman4807
Aug-03-2005, 10:26pm
Thats for sure mandoman...
Hope there is no Feds watchin' # #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Mike
No feds around here! We would run them off http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
I don`t believe I have ever had a fed on my jumpseat that was into mandolins http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif
Darrell