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Russ Garner - Apr 28,2005
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005 <br />9:01 AM on Tuesday, April 12, 2005 <br />Seaplanes are a big splash at event<br />By STEVEN N. LEVINE <br />steven.levine@newschief.com<br /><br />AUBURNDALE - Ship Capt. Robert Lee's other vehicle is an oil tanker. His first love is the 900-pound SeaRey float plane he navigated onto Lake Arietta Sunday. <br />Lee, who is from Ocala, knows stress firsthand,twice maneuvering tankers through the Straits of Hormuz during the first Gulf War. He most recently took a shipload of highly flammable aviation fuel into the U.S. Navy support facility at Diego Garcia. <br />Lee - just like the Civil War general, he says - slid the single-engine, two-seat SeaRey into Auburndale residents Russ and Lou Ann Garner's yard on Lake Arietta and quickly found a plate of food. A SeaRey enthusiast for the past two years, Lee says he feels freer skimming over the waves in the 115 hp craft, rather than plowing through them. <br />'Stress is stress, no matter how you look at it. This is fun,' he said while chowing down on a plate of Lou Ann's famous spaghetti. 'There's a very active Internet site for SeaReys. I'm happy to be part of it.' <br />Russell and Lou Ann are quick to thank their lakeside neighbors for allowing the couple to indulge their fellow SeaRey fliers once a year. <br />Sunday's Sixth SeaRey Gathering precedes the Sun 'n Fun Fly-in, which gets under way today at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport. <br />The SeaRey Gathering drew about half of the model's 50 active pilots in Florida, manufacturer representative Kerry Richter said. <br />The once-a-year Garner's Landing fete is home base for the small white amphibians during the popular fly-in. Nearly two dozen enthusiasts squeezed their 30-foot, 10-inch wingspan planes behind the couple's residence, giving the yard the appearance of a seaplane rookery. <br />In fact, many SeaRey pilots, like Doug Rogerson of Shelburne, Ontario, fly in mainly to swap stories with the Rey community. For Rogerson, the Sun 'n Fun is an afterthought. <br />A retired horse trainer, Russ Garner trains a different type of horse power nowadays when he's at the controls of his own SeaRey, which generally stables in the couple's garage. <br />Russ and Lou met while flying ultralights, but wanted something built for two. Enter the light seaplane, which retails on the preowned market for the price of a luxury car.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.polkonline.com/stories/041205/communitynews_splash.shtml">http://www.polkonline.com/stories/041205/communitynews_splas<br>h.shtml</a><br />
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Jon Ladd - Apr 29,2005
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I didn't know we had spies this year! Good thing we all behaved.
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