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Post subject: Re: Hello From Calvin [Thread Split]  Posted: 23 Aug 2013, 16:22 |
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Username Protected wrote: Robert,
So now you're calling me Calvin Corrigan?
If you'll provide the money, we'll take the long way home and I'll show you some never-to-forget sites in Australia, New Guinea, Guadalcanal, and Tarawa. It will blow your mind, and you'll always want to take the long way.
Cal Not surprisingly, I have been thoroughly outwitted by Mr. Pitts  
Not at all.
BTW Robert, I meant to ask, What part of Missouri? I have family who lives in Poplar Bluff and Doniphan, MO, and I make trips there a couple of times a year.
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Post subject: Re: Hello From Calvin [Thread Split] Posted: 23 Aug 2013, 16:27 |
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I am in Lee's Summit, MO, a suburb of Kansas City. If you ever get up this direction, dinner is on me. It would be an honor to meet you. Edit: And if we get to meet for dinner some day I have a bunch of aviaition family and friends that will want to attend (but they can buy their own dinner ) Robert
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Post subject: Re: Hello From Calvin [Thread Split] Posted: 23 Aug 2013, 16:54 |
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Username Protected wrote: I am in Lee's Summit, MO, a suburb of Kansas City. If you ever get up this direction, dinner is on me. It would be an honor to meet you. Edit: And if we get to meet for dinner some day I have a bunch of aviaition family and friends that will want to attend (but they can buy their own dinner ) Robert Lee's Summit is near Overland Park, which was the home of the Sweeney Automobile and Aviation School which Wiley attended in preparation for a life with planes. That school is part of my research. Someday, before too long, I would like to visit my cousin in Doniphan. Maybe he would want to drive me up, but he can buy his own dinner ... to quote a famous Missouri aviator. If the old Sweeney buildings still exist, I would like to visit them. I also found your airport on Google Earth.
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Post subject: Re: Hello From Calvin [Thread Split] Posted: 23 Aug 2013, 17:10 |
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Username Protected wrote: Lee's Summit is near Overland Park, which was the home of the Sweeney Automobile and Aviation School which Wiley attended in preparation for a life with planes. That school is part of my research.
Someday, before too long, I would like to visit my cousin in Doniphan. Maybe he would want to drive me up, but he can buy his own dinner ... to quote a famous Missouri aviator. If the old Sweeney buildings still exist, I would like to visit them. I also found your airport on Google Earth. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/10/43 ... lding.html
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Post subject: Re: Hello From Calvin [Thread Split] Posted: 23 Aug 2013, 17:30 |
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Username Protected wrote: Lee's Summit is near Overland Park, which was the home of the Sweeney Automobile and Aviation School which Wiley attended in preparation for a life with planes. That school is part of my research.
Someday, before too long, I would like to visit my cousin in Doniphan. Maybe he would want to drive me up, but he can buy his own dinner ... to quote a famous Missouri aviator. If the old Sweeney buildings still exist, I would like to visit them. I also found your airport on Google Earth. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/10/43 ... lding.html
BINGO !!
I would never have found this.
I do have to plan a trip from Doniphan to Sweeney's.
See you then.
Thanks much.
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Post subject: Re: Hello From Calvin [Thread Split] Posted: 23 Aug 2013, 20:59 |
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Username Protected wrote: Capt. Pitts,
Let me (late as usual) welcome you to BT as have the others! I will look forward to speaking with you in Knoxville. I spent sometime flying around PNG (mostly the highlands), and would love to hear your stories!!
Jay Jay, Nice to hear from Tenn. again. PNG? Were you a Mission Bush pilot? Did you ever get up to Lea? I spent a little time at Milne Bay, where my father was stationed during WWII for a time. Also flew over to Goodenough Island, where we had another incredible experience. My New Guinea experiences still bring a smile to my face. Thanks for your welcome.
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Post subject: Re: Hello From Calvin [Thread Split] Posted: 23 Aug 2013, 21:13 |
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Username Protected wrote: Calvin,
If you spent time in SoCal, did you ever run into a Sam Autrey based in Fullerton?
Joe No, Joe, the name is not familiar. Gordon Autry is the closest I can get. Who was Sam?
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Post subject: Re: Hello From Calvin [Thread Split] Posted: 23 Aug 2013, 21:17 |
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Username Protected wrote: Capt. Pitts,
Let me (late as usual) welcome you to BT as have the others! I will look forward to speaking with you in Knoxville. I spent sometime flying around PNG (mostly the highlands), and would love to hear your stories!!
Jay Jay, Nice to hear from Tenn. again. PNG? Were you a Mission Bush pilot? Did you ever get up to Lea? I spent a little time at Milne Bay, where my father was stationed during WWII for a time. Also flew over to Goodenough Island, where we had another incredible experience. My New Guinea experiences still bring a smile to my face. Thanks for your welcome.
Calvin,
Yes I was with a Mission group there flew out of Goroka, and I did not make Lea, but did see Madang....
We need to PM Chuck Perry and get him over on this thread and started on PNG stories 
Jay
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Post subject: Re: Hello From Calvin [Thread Split] Posted: 23 Aug 2013, 21:19 |
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Username Protected wrote: Calvin,
If you spent time in SoCal, did you ever run into a Sam Autrey based in Fullerton?
Joe No, Joe, the name is not familiar. Gordon Autry is the closest I can get. Who was Sam?
I purchased my S35 from Sam in January of this year. He was based in Fullerton for many years and just decided it was time to stop. He flew the plane all over ...Alaska, East Coast, Bahamas, Mexico, Panama, etc.... Retired Hughes engineer, very nice gentleman and many interesting flying stories.
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Post subject: Re: Hello From Calvin [Thread Split] Posted: 23 Aug 2013, 21:19 |
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Username Protected wrote: Calvin,
If you spent time in SoCal, did you ever run into a Sam Autrey based in Fullerton?
Joe Joe, I knew Sam well, he was also a deputy in Orange County Sheriffs Aero Unit., Don
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Post subject: Re: Hello From Calvin [Thread Split] Posted: 23 Aug 2013, 21:20 |
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Username Protected wrote: Calvin,
If you spent time in SoCal, did you ever run into a Sam Autrey based in Fullerton?
Joe Joe, I knew Sam well, he was also a deputy in Orange County Sheriffs Aero Unit., Don
One and the same.
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Post subject: Re: Hello From Calvin [Thread Split] Posted: 24 Aug 2013, 07:59 |
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Username Protected wrote: No, unfortunately, I don't fly much anymore. I'm a bird with a broken wing, I guess. How I miss it. If I'm ever in your part of the country, I would love to take you up on that offer. Would be like going to heaven. It would be my great pleasure, so feel free to let me know where/when you might have free time on your upcoming trip to New England and I'll see if I can accommodate. (Or maybe Kevin or someone else local can accommodate.) I saw the picture of your A36 outside Stead Aviation and recognized the building. I was based at MHT when I bought my first airplane. That was before they chased most of the general aviation off the field and expanded the runways. That field is a lot different than it was in the mid-90s (and Wiggins bought Stead, so the lineage is still there, but it's all glass and marble glitzy now).
Jim,
Great idea!
Calvin,
Jim and I are based at Hanscom Field in Bedford, MAssachusetts. My 1984 A36 is almost the same vintage as the one you flew RTW....however, it desperately needs a set of them thar fancy winglets you designed and built. I wonder what it would take to create a set of those again? 
Please let us know if you get up this way....it would be an honor to meet you.
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Post subject: Re: Hello From Calvin [Thread Split] Posted: 24 Aug 2013, 16:07 |
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Kevin,
This morning I submitted an answer to your posting, but upon looking for it, my answer is not in this thread.
I wrote ... hit submit ... and it disappeared. Any idea what I did incorrectly?
Cal
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