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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Oct 31, 2005
Description: Another great shot of Dale's Bellanca on approach. Our lot is the first opening in the tress on the right.

FYI - this end of the runway was just added. It was disced and seeded a month ago. It should be real nice next year.
Date Taken: Oct 31, 2005
Place Taken: Weakley Field
Owner: Bret
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Roberta Hegy - Oct 31,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    Hey, Bret!!! You're gonna love living on your airport heaven. That is just beautiful!!! We've been on Air Troy Estates for 12 years now and love every minute. We did the attached garage/ hangar thing and did the pool about 8 years ago. Enjoy!!! I'd love to drop in on you sometime on our way to FLA or GA. You're always welcome here (WI69).     
  
Bret Smith - Oct 31,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    Thanks Roberta. We can't wait to put out the welocme mat for folks like you. Hopefully TN will be a good stopping off point for travelers. Thanks for the invite. I want to take some long trips someday. I will make sure to put Air Troy Estates on the list     
  
Roberta Hegy - Nov 01,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    Tennessee is a beautiful state. You will be very happy there. That area near Nashville is very nice.     
  
Jon Ladd - Nov 01,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    Bret, This is a terrific photo. What were you flying in?     
  
Bret Smith - Nov 01,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    Dale Weakley sent me these pictures and I emailed him the same question. I haven't heard back from him yet. It is a real nice shot that looked like it took some real photographic skill and effort.     
  
Rick Oreair - Nov 02,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    And a long telephoto lens!     
  
Mark Alan MacKinnon - Nov 02,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    Very nice, Bret. Living on a field like this may actually be preferrable to living on a lake, since you have like-minded flying neighbors, instead of possibly non-understanding grumblers on the lake who don't understand seaplanes and don't like the noise.<br /><br />We just don't have any fields like this in Maine that I know of. There are plenty of private grass strips, but none are skyparks, at least not around here. I wonder what it takes to get one started. Insurance and legality issues must be an important consideration.<br /><br />I may have the next best thing, where I live only 5 minutes from my airport, which I'm very thankful for as I pop over there almost daily to check my plane and talk flying with the guys. Happy as a clam at high tide.<br /><br />My dream house at a field like this would be the living area built OVER the hangar. Not sure what you have planned, but I bet it will turn out great.     
  
Bret Smith - Nov 03,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    Your dream house/hanger combo sounds ideal to me but my wife doesn't share the same vision. A separate hanger/shop/clubhouse (at least 100 feet away) is the only way to go for us. That way I can run power tools or make noise in any of a host of ways anytime day or night... here in RI, my barn/shop is 200 feet from the house and its great. A friends band even practices in the loft with no impact, noise or parking wise, to the main house.     
  
Dave Lima - Nov 03,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    yup, martha is like your wife. keep all the planes,boats,snowmobiles,lawnmowers,trailers,golfcarts,4 wheelers, dirt bikes and rowdy friends away from the house as far as possible. i would love to have a huge hanger attached right to the house, but we have to keep the girls happy, then we get to buy more toys.     
  
Steve Gromak - Nov 03,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    ...band!? you have a searey band too?? must be pretty cool when you taxi out and their playing. <br /> Looks like a great place to settle into Bret, congrats!     
  
Terry Mac Neill - Nov 03,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    Bret,<br /><br />Is this tail-gating ............... or just a good camera lense ??????????     
  
Bret Smith - Dec 02,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    I just found out how this photo was made... Dale's girlfirend took the shot with an ordinary Canon digital camera while perched in an old bucket truck at the end of the runway...<br /><br />Also, see the links below to see recent feature articles on Weakley Field Fly-in community. BTW - the reporter just happens to be my sister. I think she's a pretty dang good writer...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051201/LIFESTYLE/512010301/1024">http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2<br>0051201/LIFESTYLE/512010301/1024</a><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051201/LIFESTYLE/512010302/1024">http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2<br>0051201/LIFESTYLE/512010302/1024</a><br />     
  
Charlie Huskey - Dec 02,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    BRET, you lucky dog. I thought I was going to get to watch you work your ass off building your own airstrip. HEHEHEH     
  
Bret Smith - Dec 02,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    Hey Charlie, come on over and get yourself a lot. There are four more available. We need a PPC instructor onsite... got plenty of deer too. BTW - my sister asked me if when I get the hanger built, she can put a powered parachute in there! I told her sure but only if she gets all the proper training. She thinks chutes are safe because.... they're chutes... they won't plummet to the ground or something - she thinks. Where in the Clarksville/Nashville area can we find a PPC school? Maybe I'll buy her an introductory instruction flight for Christmas.     
  
Charlie Huskey - Dec 02,2005   Viewers  | Reply
    Bret, tell sister that the chute will kill you the same as a fixed wing BUT NOT AS QUICKLY, you get to suffer longer from your injurys. Training is the key to any safe flying. I have a demo chute with 38 hour on it for $13,000. Training included. PROPER TRAINING AND THE CHUTE IS THE SAFEST WAY TO FLY.     


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