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Bruces Web Site
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Date: 8-22-2013
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Number of Hours: 4.00
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Brief Description: Pick up prop, glass ar0und cabin top
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Been a few great days. Our guests for the Vans Homecoming fly in were great. One was from Detroit and flew his new -12 here, the other from Grants Pass Oregon and came in his -6. We spent Friday talking, the -12 pilot had been a back seater in F4s for two tours on Nam and the other was an artist with a major knowledge of aviation and a lot of other things. After the EAA chapter dinner we stayed up until 11 A.M. and then sent them upstairs where they kept talking until 3 A.M.
Saturday morning was spent looking over the very large collection of planes at the fly in. We drove them over to the McMinnville museum in the afternoon, Detroit had never seen the Spruce Goose (my father was a Sr. Engineer on it and, with three others, did the hull structural design). We did the wholemuseum including the F4 which was interesting to see with a man who had almost 2,000 hours in the back seat. Then the Independence Vans homecoming dinner.
Sunday we flew over to eHood River to see the WAAM museum, which is the best except for the Smithsonian. Has hundreds of cars, all pristine from the first electric to Stanley Steamers, up to muscle cars. The airplanes are almost as many, almost all from prior to 1950. All in flying condition.
Our guests went their separate ways after a major adventure with my -6A which had a very low front tire when I pulled it out of the hanger. Had to take the fairing off to get to the filler it was so low. After landing at Rogue River, it was about half down. So after the museum (need to spend a lot more time than we did, it really deserves more than one day) we borrowed their airport car for a late lunch and a frantic drive to find a hardware store to buy a tire pump. When we got back the tire was almost flat. Managed to get the pump on and blew it up to about 50 psi. After a quick farewell, we flew back to Independence and landed very lightly, taxied to the end of the runway with the nose held in the air by throttle and full back stick. Then it is a short taxi to the hous
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