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Maybe Someday?

By lex, on June 6th, 2009

The Barnstormer T-6 and one of the Travelaires

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June 6th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Flying

11 comments to Maybe Someday?

  • Quartermaster
    June 6, 2009 at 2:49 pm

    Lex, it appears you have succumbed to the same disease as I. Barnstormer is a siren and can only lead to much wasted time daydreaming.

    Wasted or not, I love poking around on Barnstormer.

  • Tailspin
    June 6, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    Don’t confuse Barnstormer.com and Barnstorming Adventures, QM. The former is an interesting website, the latter flies an SNJ-4 for which Hizoner pines. And for good reason. A manly aircraft you have to fly, one that does not tolerate mere driver.

    • Quartermaster
      June 7, 2009 at 11:02 am

      Oh well. he can pine on Barnstormer as well.

      I’ve never heard of Barnstorming Adventures. But, then I don’t live near Dago either.

  • Snowman
    June 6, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    Lex:

    I live next door to Kenosha, WI. The Kenosha Airport (KENW) is the staging area for Texans as they prepare to fly in formation to Oshkosh each year. They are usually here for 2 weeks prior to the show. If you’re hankering to get out on the tarmac with 3 dozen or so, come on to Kenosha. I’ll let you know when they start arriving.

    I have 100+ pics from prior years that I can post on flickr if you’d like ‘em.

    Snowman

  • Michelle
    June 6, 2009 at 8:14 pm

    Or he could just like go. To Osh Kosh. Too.
    B’gosh.

    • virgil xenophon
      June 6, 2009 at 10:04 pm

      Michelle/

      I wonder if Max Damage wears Oshkosh B’gosh’s out on his farm? We need pics. :)

      PS: That, and a plain white T-shirt was all my Uncle Lyndon ever wore on his farm and Turkey ranch back in Illinois when I was growing up as a kid. Looked right handsome in his Korean War-style 50s crew-cut to go with it. (Got free turkeys for Thanksgiving, too. :) )

      • SCOTTtheBADGER
        June 7, 2009 at 6:12 am

        No shoes? On a poultry farm? YUK!

        • virgil xenophon
          June 7, 2009 at 11:10 am

          Leave it to you, you damn Badger-State reprobate! Don’t be so damned literal! :)

          On a more prosaic note, he raised them in raised sheltered pens, not free-range, which requires large amounts of land, as one has to move them around every few years to fresh soil to prevent disease. The floors were chicken-wire so that droppings fell to cleanable flats underneath which prevented disease. The structures had an open-to-the elements, caged “front porch” for feeding with a trough whereby my uncle could simply drive by with a feed dispenser/pump in the back of his jeep and fill the trough with grain. Same for water trough as well. Would cut front half of the top part of the beak off with a cold band saw so that they wouldn’t peck themselves to death in close quarters. (He also leased out 16,000 acres of soya-bean fields to other farmers–the Turkeys were his pet project–and a huge commercial success.)

  • Wilko
    June 6, 2009 at 10:06 pm

    Hopefully sooner than later!

  • OldT6Flyer
    June 7, 2009 at 5:30 am

    The AT-6, SNJ, Harvard, etc. Is a great airplane. Best evidence I can cite as to its amazing record as a trainer is that South Africa was the last nation to stop using them in the role – in 1996 or 58 years after they first flew.
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