Re: Today at Farmingdale 2008
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Thing were getting a little boring....and my hair actually looked ok.....soooooo
time to stir everything up!!!
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Sorry....the camera at this point was behind my back so I could grab
the fence firmly with bolth hands....and it was VERY HOT AND WINDY!
(I would not recoomend doing this as there is active traffic behind!)
After he was 1/3 of the way down the runway, I was able to
get this shots tho it was still very windy!
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It would not be good as a Fire trainer as once the bird crap is washed away, the thing would
fall apart.
This has been there for years and I have lots of neat snow shots and lot of different fun
shots. I have watched it go from horrible to not worthy of a restoration! The back control
surfaces are rammed and crunched, the fuselage just forward of the horizontal stabs has a
BIG dent and crunch. It looks like the engines have not been run in about 8 years. The
glass is no longer transparent and the inside does not look good either. This plane is the
equivalent to the old Ford pickup that is half buried in the ground. It is really sad to see.
It is probably someone who can no longer fly but can not let go of the past...I can not
blame him......The places she has seen and the joyful lasting memories have in turn brought
her to this.....I am sure if the plane sucked....it would have been sold long ago!
Brings a tear to my eye :( EVERYTIME!
***In other words...I have no freakin clue of the story of this aircraft***
(translated from babbling gibberish)
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Ya know ALL the times I've been to FRG and I've NEVER seen this aircraft.
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Gerard, its usually parked over by the huge swooping curve on New highway.
Been there for years, a lovely old powdery blue bird.
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ohh trust me.. the guy can fly.. and its actually been abondened.. one of our tennants is actually neighbors with the guy who owns that plane!!... its painted with house paint and you can see thru the fiberglass at certian points.. if you look around the alpha ramp there is about 4 derilic planes that have been "abondended" 2 by the fence by home depot.. and the 2 on our ramp by the dirt hill and that saberliner that is never going to leave b/c there dumb is 2 pipers which are getting auctioned off!!!
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Originally Posted by Gerard
Whats the story with this plane?
i've always seen it sitting there from the first day i started flying at FRG. i've heard multiple stories about it, each less true than the last. some made mention of the airplane being repossesed by it's owner from a lessor, the airplane being damaged as a result of a marital dispute, the airplane being straight up abandoned and even that it's pilot just died. who knows, but i wish someone would do something about it. it rreally hurts seeing the airplane look like that.
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Originally Posted by h2opunk1822
... and that saberliner that is never going to leave b/c there dumb is 2 pipers which are getting auctioned off!!!
Care to try again? Even drunk I could not understand this one. :wink:
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On teh end of our ramp by the big asphalt hill there is 3 planes.. a saberliner that the company keeps forgetting about and 2 pipers that are gonna be auctioned off
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[quote="mirrodie"]Gerard, its usually parked over by the huge swooping curve on New highway.
LOL probably why I havent seen it, concentrating on driving instead of plane watching. But I have noticed some old birds in that group.
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That P3 hit ISP for a T&G thought he was going to do pattern work but he headed West. Lemme guess Moose he hit FRG about 2:55-3:00pm??? I was in the car headed back to the office when I saw him...unfortunately got a very poor shot of him climbing away (far away) from ISP.
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That's exactly when they showed up. They did 3 T&Gs then departed.
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Here is one of my keepers.... Do you thing it may make Jetphotos?
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