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Re: NO LBC - Old Airplane Ride Descision

To: <RBHouston@aol.com>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Re: NO LBC - Old Airplane Ride Descision
From: "Kurtis" <tr4driver@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 21:13:37 -0500
Robert,

I doubt this will stop you...

8 years ago (around Father's Day) there was a P-51 in Fayetteville, Arkansas 
(where I was living at the time) for a couple of days that was rigged up 
with a second seat located behind the pilot's seat.  My dad has always been 
a huge P-51 fan, so as a Father's Day gift, I bought him a ride in the P-51. 
If I remember correctly, it was $150 for a 15-20 minute ride.  It seemed 
like a heck of a bargain to me.  How many chances does one get to fly in a 
P-51?

Anyway, while I was talking to the pilot after my dad's flight, he snuck 
into the hanger and bought me one of the two remaining available rides!  The 
experience was unbelievable!  We did a couple of high speed low altitude 
passes over the runway and some stalls and rolls.  Looking *up* through the 
bubble canopy at the ground was incredible!

Go for it!

Kurtis Jones
Russellville, Arkansas
1963 TR4 - CT19389L
1959 AH Bugeye - AN5L23250
www.geocities.com/tr4_1963

> Next Wednesday, the B17 and B24 that fly out of Connecticut will land 
> about
> 2 miles from my house at War Eagles Air Museum, Santa Teresa Airport.  For
> $400 bucks I can get a 30 minute ride on either plane.
>
> Anybody done this?  Worth it?  The 30 minutes is start up to  stop, and 
> after
> gaining altitude and leveling out, passengers are allowed to  move about 
> the
> plane to sample each manned point, with the exception of the  pilots seat 
> I
> assume.
>
> Since I am in the middle of trying to get both the TR4 and the Midget back
> on the road for Spring, I'd have to tap savings for this.  Somebody stop
> me!!!!!!




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