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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Aug 14, 2009
Description:
Am taking my first step towards building a Searey - having the place to do it! Hope to close in a couple of weeks on 6 acres, house, garage apt, fenced pasture, pond area..but this shop really sold me on the older property - should be big enough for a Searey wing, eh - Location: Lafayette, Louisiana area near Gulf Coast, Cypremort Point, Avery Island (home of Tabasco Sauce), etc
Date Taken:
Aug 14, 2009
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Owner:
Ben Bienvenu
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Kenneth Leonard - Aug 14,2009
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Certainly big enough for building Ben. I built mine in 1/2 a two car garage. Sounds like a nice property.
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Dan Nickens - Aug 14,2009
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That looks great, Ben. Your location, however, gives me an excuse for a short story.<br /><br />It was my first real cross country. I was flying a C172 from Gainesville, Florida to Lafayette, Lousiana to pick up a friend. It was early evening and I was talking to Approach.<br /><br />'Cessna Nxxxx 20 west of 'La-fay-et' for landing,' I blurted out like a recently minted pilot.<br /><br />'Cessna Nxxxx, where are you going to?'<br /><br />'La-fay-et.'<br /><br />A deep, professional sounding pilot broke into the conversation. 'He means 'Lafayette.' I'm guessing he is from Tennessee.'<br /><br />Of course I am from Tennessee and the little town near the Kentucky border is named Lafayette but everyone knows it is called La Fay Et.
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Ben Bienvenu - Aug 15,2009
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ha, yeah I've got an old buddy from Tennessee and we joke about that. It was the same for me when I <br />moved from Texas to El Dorado, AR- my wife is a Texan & I was there around Clear Lake ( but spent time <br />in W. Tx).. The local Arkansians ALL promptly corrected us.. 'it's El Dor-A(hard A)-do' said w a twang- a <br />funny one. I've been so many places now I'm a vernacular language mutt!
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Kenneth Leonard - Aug 16,2009
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Ben - 'but spent time in W. Tx.' - where? I was in Abilene (Dyess AFB) 81-85.
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Ben Bienvenu - Aug 17,2009
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I trained/worked for a stint in Odessa (Odessolate), mostly Midland - some in 'No Trees', Mowab, briefly in Lamesa/Lubbock, across to New Mexico some (Farmington/Durango area, too traveling up into the Sangre de Christas (Ouray/Silverton/Purgatory), down to Taos/Angel Fire (11,000 hr family member/2x vietnam purple hear chopper pilot and several thousand hr fixed wing bonanza pilot (related by marriage) crashed there in Angel Fire in the early 90's - well, density altitude and engine issues w/prevailing wind towards rising terrain w/full fuel turned a successful slide-in into an inferno about a minute after they were stepping out about 18yrs ago in Angel Fire - goes to show you - but he was an agressive pilot, you could say - carful but still agressive in my opinion-more hrs probably translated to too much confidence), and I've worked further south to Nuevo Laredo/Corpus, Bakersfield,Calif, (almost got to work Vancouver-still trying to get there), lived a training-stint in Tulsa, Oklahoma area, E. Tx, N. La and worked Alabama and all across the gulf coast - been all over the West and Rockies, also lived/traveled some central states and covered parts of Alberta, and the populous NE areas and SE coastal (gulf and atlantic) plains. Can you tell I work oil/gas fields? ha (yep, organic oil and natural gas exploration, drilling & completions - lots of yrs on rigs and locations but am mostly an office jock these days down in Lafayette - came full circle in ~20 yrs to where I'm from thanks to Hurricane Katrina in the Mandeville/New Orleans area, which flooded out office space and blew us back to Lafayette.<br /><br />Where I haven't yet gone to much is the Appalacians where I hope to get to more in near future - maybe in my future Searey! but I hear it's some pretty rugged terrain/rotors, etc coming off the plains sort of like Mena, AR near the Oklahoma border.<br /><br />One of the neatest things I ever did while living in Arkansas was go flying with Bill Canino in his Searey along the same Arkansas River we dove hunt annually between Stuttguart and Scott, AR - so many places to get out back to with a Searey!
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Marty Corr - Aug 17,2009
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Atteyunshun on the reeeeag.... this is not a drill...<br /><br />Hey Ben, sounds like we have a lot in common. Just took delivery of my LSX kit in Australia. Working on the rigs too, mostly Asia and Middle east, running ESP's. Currently in Saudi Arabia desk jockeying instead of running pumps. Taking a quick 5 minutes to check out Splash and dash to remind me why I am here. Working to get the money for my engine. Good luck with your new house and future Searey.
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