I remember going cross country VOR to VOR. Today's technology is cheatin". LOL

Yep, Martin State it is. We were approaching the DC airspace and I picked up a pop-up IFR to get around all the airspace up there. I flew corporate before going to the airlines, but never snuck into MTN. Man, they nestle that ‘port right in all those buildings and lights REAL good like!goggles

One of the older INS units was the Delco Carousel and with those you could only program in eight waypoints at a time. Which wasn’t a big deal in the US flying over the Atlantic, but once you hit European Airspace it was a virtual finger orgy with the keyboard getting poked and prodded in every direction!:tongue: Sometimes those airways would have 20 intersections in a 30 mile span, and when doing .80 Mach, they go by fast!:shocked:

More pics pics n the journey home next month.

Happy Thanksgiving you’s guys!!!

Cheers
Dave

Thought it looked familiar :). Lot's of history there, but urban sprawl has surrounded MTN making it really tight. Anytime you're hopping around, you're always welcome to stop in at CGE (50nm SE of MTN)....nice little GA airport with one of the best restaurants in the area and the management (me) is very friendly to fabric TW aircraft :). Enjoy the Stinson!

I’ll plan on that on the way home! We flew directly over you last Saturday around 1pm on the way back to Texas in the 310.

Cheers
Dave

Have you used the cement arrows to navigate?

http://www.dreamsmithphotos.com/arrow/

Awesome!...gimme a heads up on a timeframe to make sure i'm there....Katie's at the Airport has awesome crabcakes...my treat :) 443-521-3158

Dave
I was going through some vintage Goodyear Flight Operation photos and found out they had a Stinson Voyager model 108 I think. The photo is dated 1955. This one could be late 40's, maybe you know. I worked out of this hangar from 78 to 83 located Akron Fulton airport where the Zeppelin hangar is.
Mike

Hi Mike,

Yeah, that’s a 1946 108-2 with a serial number about 1000 numbers before mine. 108-2200 or something like that. The N-Number has been decommissioned and is now used on a Piper Cherokee, so not sure what happened to it if it’s still flying.

And L16, we didn’t have time to stop in to grab a bite when I got the plane home. We were scud-runnin’ and dodging snow showers when it was supposed to be nice up there!!!:dunno:

Cheers
Dave

No worries Dave...I completely understand weather dictates the travel schedule when flying little airplanes :)

Back in the day
,late ‘77-‘80 the company I was working for bought a used Piper
We were a small Arospace machine shop.
Long story short we took the Piper to the Machine Tool Show in Chicago
and landed at Meg’s Field which was a landing strip out in the lake downtown Chicago.
Gone now but, I now know where the name “Windy City” came from.
After that we purchased a “V Tail” King -Air
That was like going from a well used Vega to a new Cadillac.

Anyway on a second note I live in Beloit Wi. And just north of me is Janesville Wi.
Home of the the now gone GM plant all in Rock County.
In between is Rock County Airport which would host a fly-in for the warbirds or anybody
passing by as a pit stop place for AAEA in Oshkosh in Wi.
There is a Restaurant there called “Bessie”.
I try to go every couple of weeks for Breakfast and in the better weather you will see a few
different planes come in just for breakfast or lunch.
Joe