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A belated third-hand seconding of all that everyone has
said about Bill and Linda Eslick and the hospitality shown. I mean folks
who keep coffee for their guests when neither of them drink it - says it
all.
It was great flying with Tracy and Charlie from
Mississippi to Texas despite the 115 MPH ground speed and the 12F cockpit
temps. But, it was really nice when, after take off (without quite as much
excitement as Tracy had - I had mine already with a squirrelly
landing the day before), I climbed up and found my GPS was showing a ground
speed of 220 MPH on the way to San Antonio. Make it there from Dallas area
in 1.10, boy what a difference from 115MPH.
Visited a long lost nephew and widow of a highschool
classmate and next day flew to Louisiana to visit my sisters, daughter and kin
folk. Arrived at the county airport I normally land at (only one n the
county) only to find they had no gas!. Took off on Thursday to beat the
weather front to North Carolina, and landed at an airport about 30 miles away
only to find out they were also out of fuel. A local pilot who just landed
informed me that there was another airport (Bunkie, LA) that had fuel. So
back tracked about 20 miles and landed there only to find it unattended with no
sign on who to call for fuel. Fortunately, the local pilot had given me
the phone number. After about a 30 minute wait, I finally had fuel
($3.70/gallon) and headed home.
Flew over Charlie's place (MS71) and make a call but
apparently no body was monitoring so just continued on home with a grounds speed
varying between 175 and 190 MPH at altitudes varying between 2500 and 11,500
MSL. Landed without incident at 4.00PM. So I think Ed Anderson's
Tail-Wind Jinks has been broken {:>)
As always great time talking with everyone and being on
hand for the birth of Jason's rotary installation. Great to see a bunch of
you again, sorry some others didn't make it.
Next time
Ed.
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