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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Aug 13, 2005
Description:
We never got to the Glenn Curtiss museum that day. Bill Narby was apprehensive about flying solo, so I took him up in the SeaRey and got him to do everything he'd need to do in the Lazair. By that time, the museum was about to close for the day, so Dale invited me to stay over (in the motor home you see here). That evening he and his Carmen and her sister and father took me along on a dinner cruise on the lake. Lovely people, all of them. The next morning, Bill bought me breakfast, and we met Dale at the museum.
The afternoon brought less good weather, and in the haste to get out ahead of it, the SeaRey's tailwheel extension cable busted when the airplane rolled backward down the beach too fast and the wheel caught on some rocks. We just tied it up and I was on my way ahead of the storm, relishing the 24 hours I had spent there, at the birthplace of naval aviation--and at the home of the designer of possibly the most graceful airplane ever built.
Eat your hearts out!
The SeaRey parts of the trip were terrific, too--lots of good people and good times. I'll post some pics of them after I decompress a bit, get some lunchdinner, ice cream, chocolate, and maybe sleep.
Oh, yeah. Dan Nickens has the all-time SeaRey trip time and the Big Adventures. This one was tame by comparison and a mere 45.8 hours of SeaRey flying (plus a bit of Storch time and 1.5 in the Lazair).
Date Taken:
Aug 13, 2005
Place Taken:
Lakek Keuka, NY
Owner:
Don Maxwell
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Jon Ladd - Aug 13,2005
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Great trip Don. It was good seeing you at Oshkosh.
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Bret Smith - Aug 13,2005
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Awesome Don. That is a great story. What a fellowship we water fliers have.
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Dan Nickens - Aug 13,2005
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Hasn't it been said, Don, that a big trip is just a bunch of smaller ones? Judging from the look on Carol's face I'd wager you wouldn't trade yours for anyone's.
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Dave Edward - Aug 14,2005
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Glad to see you had a good time after leaving here. You have to come back and get your pills...left on the counter downstairs. How bout early Oct. for the foliage tour?
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