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Charlie Huskey - Jun 21,2004 Viewers | Reply


	BRET!!!!!!!SONNY BOY its about time you check in. You and the Col Gracy havn`t been heard from since about friday. Last we heard you were headed for the airport with Streaker, no news of a flight and then my mind(WHATS LEFT OF IT)began to wonder. GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU AGAIN, NOW WHERE`S THE COL? NOW did you get Miss Streaker in the air? <br /> Checking out for a couple days. Wife and I will be celebrating 41 years of wedded bliss. H M M MM M MM wonder why she is all for me building this plane??????? HEHEHEHEHEH If anyone should need to contact me, Bret has my cell #.

Bret Smith - Jun 21,2004 Viewers | Reply


	No worries Charlie. I like to take a break from the computer on the weekends if possible. Streaker is not flight ready yet. Still rigging and inspecting. I got the ailerons and flaps and newly painted control arms installed and adjusted last night.<br /><br />The devil is in the details and sometimes those details throw you little curve balls. I spent from and 8pm to 1am saturday night working down my reassembly list. She's looking real good though. <br /><br />And the Col and I went to a hum-dinger of an airshow yesterday at Quonset Point. Saw a B2 fly-by, Sean Tucker, T-Birds, and one of the coolest things was seeing them manuver military transport aircraft at low altitude. When those things are empty, they can bank them around like a Cessna. It was a great day. I wish I could go back tomorrow.<br /><br />Also, I'm lined-up to get my seaplane rating at Twitchell's in Maine this weekend. So, I'm excited about that!<br /><br />Congrats on your 41st. Ya'll have a good time.


	Bret, what kind of 'military transport aircraft'? If they were C-17s, they was probably mine! Charleston AFB birds have a thin yellow line - front-to-back on the vertical tail with the lowcountry tree and crescent moon. And they do manuver well.

Bret Smith - Jun 21,2004 Viewers | Reply


	Ken, It was the C130, C130J, C5 and the C-17. You have a fun job Ken. On takeoff, it looked like they did their initial climb at about a 45 degree angle!


	Bret, are you flying to Twitchell's?<br /><br />I didn't get my seaplane rating there, though I understand they're top notch. I got mine at KT aviation which is close by to me:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ktaviation.com/">http://www.ktaviation.com</a><br /><br />Good luck with it and let us know how it goes.

Bret Smith - Jun 21,2004 Viewers | Reply


	I don't plan on flying b/c the plane's not quite ready yet and the pilot is probably a little too rusty for a cross-country anyway. I will get back in the grove and get some good trips in later in the season.


	Bret, yeah, the C-17 has a computer to prevent the pilot from dragging the tail on takeoff rotation. But the most exciting flying is assault landings in a C-130. God I loved that! When you see the 5000 hour engineer's knuckles go white 'cause there's a 24 year old pilot with 250 hours trying to drill the nosewheel into the ground...I was too stupid to know, I was just enjoying the view!

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