Interstate Cadet
Thanks for the great picture Tom!! 1c9 Frazier Lake airpark were it all started.
23-AUG-2014
Tied down and setting up camp
Thanks to Dan at Porterville for letting Jerry and I use his truck to get dinner, and turning the sprinklers off!
23-AUG-2014
Tired Taylorcraft
What Jerry's Taylorcraft looked like after his landing at Porterville !!
23-AUG-2014
Sunrise
The second day of trip, wheels up at sunrise Porterville CA.
24-AUG-2014
Train crossing over itself
I thought the Tehachapi loop was the only place were a train could pass over itself. I saw this over the California desert.
24-AUG-2014
Gorge, Lenard, Mores at Las Cruces NM
Great guys with good advice for crossing the tail end of the Rockies.
24-AUG-2014
Highest point just ahead
Went to 8,000 but could have easily crossed at 7,000.
24-AUG-2014
Texas sky
Breath taking, but no place to loose oil pressure . Eastern Arizona before Gila Bend.
24-AUG-2014
Clouds
Abandoned oil fields west Texas
24-AUG-2014
Outside
Dodged thunderstorms as they grew all afternoon. Couldn't out run them so I picked the nearest airfield Yoakum Co. Texas. No tie downs to be seen so pulled behind some hangars to get out of winds.
24-AUG-2014
Storm flattening out, dying down.
24-AUG-2014
Looking west at sundown
It's hard to look at Texas without the influence of oil.
25-AUG-2014
In Hanger
Grounded due to building thunderstorms at Yoakum Co. Airport. Made a call to Gary Walker about tie downs and he said he would be right out. Tie down ? Put it in my hangar next to the three twins( airplanes that is). What hospitality .All that and a cup of joe in the morning to see me off. Many thanks Gary!
25-AUG-2014
Airstrip with train
Example of the many airports along the way. This one in SW Oaklahoma. I was truly amazed at how many trains were active throughout the country.
25-AUG-2014
Rolling hills of west Oklahoma
25-AUG-2014
Borger
Jet center...... no wing tanks? Only 11 gallons? I felt bad so I bought 2 quarts of engine oil.
25-AUG-2014
Who said Texas isn't pretty?
26-AUG-2014
Serious
Pilot extraordinaire flying into a darkening sky...... What do I do if I have to go to the bathroom real bad?
26-AUG-2014
Missouri landscape
Just after this picture was taken, up sky a little bit, I landed at Jesse Viertel Memorial airport to have lunch or so I thought .Anyway I used the courtesy car and went to lunch, and when I returned I discovered I had a minor issue with my beautiful bird! Well after some mulling around and some help from one of the locale pilots I was able to hook up with Missouri's finest AI to help me threw my issue. What a guy and a fine mechanic too! Jim Sturguess THANK YOU! Thanks to John the airport Dude for your help too! As it turns out Jim is pretty good at recycling spoiled table wine, he removes the alcohol and burns it in his car!!!
26-AUG-2014
Clouds
They start out like this........ Notice the 130kts on the air speed indicator . Ah the things dreams are made of !
28-AUG-2014
River
The Big Muddy (Missouri river) mid state Missouri .
28-AUG-2014
A tuff crowd
All the Interstates at blakesburg, except Kern's . Sorry Karen, I loved your Cadet.
29-AUG-2014
Interstate
This ones for sale! Still trying to figure that one out.
29-AUG-2014
Interstate
Really nice Cadet, but the owner was a no show.
29-AUG-2014
Funk B85C
Great little Funk . But not a rare as the Interstate !
29-AUG-2014
Red
This beautiful chief pulled at my heart strings, and the young owner was giving another young prospective pilot a ride. I gave him a hand prop, thank you.
29-AUG-2014
Room of Stuff
I caught these guys filling their pockets !!
29-AUG-2014
Eaglerock 1929
Couldn't talk this owner out of the picture!
29-AUG-2014
Callair 1951
Great to see Callair represented with its Interstate brethren .
29-AUG-2014
Taylorcraft
That reminds me......were did Jerry go?
29-AUG-2014
Aeronca 11AC
Giving rides! What a guy.
29-AUG-2014
Line
Another great Porterfield.
29-AUG-2014
Luscombes
Great showing of Luscombes
29-AUG-2014
Aeronca C3 Bathtub
Here is the future of Aviation as it should be. This young student pilot (15 years old if I remember right ) brought this C3 up from Louisiana on a trailer (a little help from Dad) put the wings on at Ottumwa IA. And pleased the crowd a number of times with some flybys . No loops and rolls this time.
31-AUG-2014
Out of harms way
Sunday , after a delay to let the grass strip recover from torrential down pours the night before we departed Blakesburg around 4:15pm with Mat and Mike in their award winning Cadets. A couple of hours latter we flew up against a wall thunder storms the likes of witch this Pacific flyer has never seen!!! Once again a kind owner of this maintenance shop came from home and opened his hangar for the 3 wayward Cadets. Never have I been so grateful! Tornado watch too! Hurry so I can get to the hotel room to change my underwear !! Thank you Shenandoah Municipal airport !!
01-SEP-2014
Interstates at Shenandoah
See the police car in the the left middle of the picture? Well it's retired , and is now the airport curtesy car. It was a lot of fun driving thru Shenandoah and watching traffic react to our own personal police unit!
03-SEP-2014
Mat blowing by me in his award winning Cadet
Mat won a trophy at Oshkosh this year! Congadulations.
04-SEP-2014
Prosser airport
Mat headed home to Eugene Or. And I stayed here for a couple days before the Hood River fly in .Great camp ground, showers,a pilot lounge. A short walk to town. Thanks Cory for the fresh salmon on the grill and the spark plug too!!
