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| Flight Test Nation. Lakebed Fly-in, October 1, 2010. | Front Range Airport (FTG), Watkins, CO, dawn 09/30/10 | Front Range Airport turnoff, dawn 09/30/10. | Front Range Airport entrance sign, dawn 09/30/10 | FTG terminal building. | ||
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| FTG ramp is quiet at this time of the morning. It has a few airplanes. | Cherokee 180, N2127R. | Our pilot taxiing for takeoff. | FTG tower (out standing alone in its field) | First leg FTG to Los Alamos Airport (LAM), NM. Airborne! | ||
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| Southbound from FTG. Pikes Peak in the far distance. | Looking W into Denver, SE of Buckley AFB. | We are not landing at Buckley today. | Old Lowry AFB, looking NW. Wings over the Rockies Air and Space Museum is in the large hangar visible left of the old runway. | Sundog of our airplane | ||
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| Looking W into Mount Princeton and the hot springs. | Los Alamos Airport (LAM), NM is on the mesa. | Final approach to Los Alamos Airport (LAM), NM. | Arrival LAM. Fuel is at the far NW end of the runway. | Motorglider and glider trailer at LAM. | ||
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| LAM terminal building, wind sock, crosswind! | LAM has some old hangars. | Fueling at LAM. | LAM, looking E down RWY 9. | LAM, looking E down RWY 9. | ||
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| Blast Fence at W end of LAM. Note houses on the other side. | Forest fire SW of LAM. | Double Eagle Airport (AEG), Albuquerque, NM. Added oil, tightened the oil temp connection, all OK. | Double Eagle Airport (AEG) tower. | Runup at AEG, departing SW. | ||
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| High desert W of ABQ. | Dry wash W of ABQ. | Winslow Airport (INW), AZ. No girl, no flat-bed Ford. | INW, turning final, landing Winslow. | MHV tower before dawn 10/01/10. | ||
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| MHV, getting ready for a pre-dawn preflight. | MHV, preflight before dawn. | Mojave Air and Space Port (MHV), CA. Unicom is in this old tower. | MHV wall art inside the FBO. | MHV wall art inside the FBO. | ||
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| MHV wall art inside the FBO. | MHV wall art inside the FBO. | MHV wall art inside the FBO. | MHV wall art inside the FBO. | The Crew at Mojave, loaded, ready to go MHV to EDW. | ||
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| Scaled Composites at MHV is the large hangar. | Another airplane and crew that departed for EDW before we did and arrived on the lakebed after we did. | N2127R ready to go... MHV to EDW. | Windmills around MHV. | EDW Rwy 23 on our go-around. | ||
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| EDW. The white dot is the event tent. | EDW is not wet. It just reflects. | EDW event tent and some airplanes. | EDW Rwy 20, right base. | Edwards AFB (EDW), Roasmond Dry Lakebed, right base turning final 20, landing "in the dirt". | ||
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| EDW, looking at the "other runway", mis-marked as 5, then remarked as 23. | EDW, short final 20. | Yes, you can taxi anywhere. The lines don't matter! | EWD, safety crew watching the taxiing aircraft on Rosamond Dry Lakebed. | Found the taxi line. | ||
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| Taxiing for parking. | Oil is the runway marking of choice. | Turning for parking. | He took our picture! | Excellent ramp partner. | ||
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| Airplane and truck tire tracks on the dry lakebed. | Arrival greeting. | Our pilot being interviewed by the local TV media. | Taking pictures of each other. Note the plastic hammer for tiedowns. | Looking from airplane parking to the event tent. | ||
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| Looking from the event tent, N2217R is second from the far end of the row. | A different Cherokee. | Finally, we get the pancake breakfast! | Flight Test Nation. Lakebed Fly-in, October 1, 2010. | Check in Here. | ||
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| Wrist bands: Different colors if you flew in, or if you drove in. | Schedule of Events. | Graphic of EDW Rosamond site. | Car parking area. | Looking E from the event tent toward the parking area. | ||
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| Command center (trailer), with fire trucks and EMTs. | CAP cadets working the flight line and parking. | They said this glider is the only GA aircraft that had landed here before this fly-in. | Glider aft cockpit. | Glider forward cockpit. | ||
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| CAP Cessna 182 N899CP from Wisconsin! | CAP Cessna 182 N887CP from California! | Both CAP Cessna 182s: N899CP, N887CP. | EDW Museum promotion. | Parachute jumper. | ||
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| Parachuters under canopy. 1 | Parachuters under canopy. 2 | C17 flyby. I think this was the jump plane. | Safety briefing in the event tent. | Poncho Barnes re-enactment. | ||
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| Poncho Barnes' personal airplane, restored. 1 | Poncho Barnes' personal airplane, restored. 2 | Poncho Barnes' personal airplane, restored, with newer avionics. 3 | Warbird flight line. 1 | Warbird flight line. 2 | ||
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| Cool paint job! 1 | Cool paint job! 2 | Cool paint job! 3 | EDW taxiing for takeoff to Rwy 5. Note: black band is camera artifact, not weather. | Muroc ground control, EWD, Rosamond Dry Lakebed. | ||
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| Muroc ground control #2, Cessna about to turn left for takeoff. | Cessna on the runway. | N2127R departing Rwy 5. | Muroc Tower. | EDW, Airborne from Rosamond Dry Lakebed. | ||
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| Bread trucks were used for runway end markers. They were the only obstacles in the landing area! | EDS, Rosamond, looking back at the Rwy 20 markings. | Dry, dry lakebed. | Rotor, lift, turbulence, virga! | Headed across the desert for Prescott, AZ. | ||
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| 3 fires in the distance, W of Prescott, AZ. | Someone took this picture of us departing in N2127R. The End. | ||