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That Coronado is what my father flew in WWII - very surprised to see that!: Being on the Coronado's was a different kind of deal. Everyone was trained by the flight crew to fly the airplane - they could be gone for weeks and as the Captain said: "I want to get home - I don't care who is...

Somehow I skipped over your reply - but yours is as close to the mark as it gets. It is the act that is being paid for, and they do this very well, giving the feeling that you are truly special to be allowed in this special dining place. It's certainly not the food. Superior food can be found...

Complementary. But not really. There's a long explanation here: https://www.gamblingsites.org/blog/how-comps-work-in-gambling/ But the short explanation is this: "free" stuff (booze, food, a room) to keep you in the casino gambling and losing money. You have been identified mathematically as...

Good question - the meal was comped so I don't know the total but: 2 ways to look at it: probably not bad at all from a cash standpoint for someone who likes that kind of atmosphere since none of us ordered crab, lobster or market priced food ($100 and everything is an uncharge over that). The...

Yes! Had supper at Mignon’s (the hoity-toity restaurant of the Palace Casino, Biloxi (best fine dining on the Gulf coast they say) last Friday so the experience is fresh in my mind. We went in, guests of a friend that had over 2000 comps he said (must be quite a dreadful disease) - sat down to...

This would be the full exercise: As said above: we would do this at altitude with an instructor (usually Chuck Coe or Joe Rogers) in a 450 Stearman and then we were cleared to go low with Johnny Neile and then by ourselves in the field with the AgCat. The Cubs, Huskies, etc., being lighter...

If any of you stall practicing this: stay in ground effect and handle it - do not climb out until control is regained. As soon as you recognize the stall: 1. Full Power - we're going to power our way out of this 2. Keep Wings Level & Rudder Neutral - keep it that way until it starts flying...

Just try to keep the wings as level as possible.

Our (bigger) fish are at 30-40 feet. I know you'll drop more in AK. We've used these a lot for hybrid, white, and striped bass (a largemouth isn't above taking it either) with excellent results. The first cast out with the one shown for demo I got a big hybrid with the minnow trailer but...

Excellent. Looks very much like the one I flew in every way, even the paint scheme except mine had bright red flames coming off the engine cylinders extending to the gear. Looked like a circus act gone wrong. 450 1964 Light Frame with the open canopy like his. I did no spraying in it -...

Last thing I found (on Goldman & Hunt) - evidently they were friends and our little escapade had to be smoothed over. I get it now. The below on getting an honorary doctorate (after his death). Sam Goldman, who died in 2007, started Chesapeake Airlines in 1947, one of the earliest airlines in...

He's right, it jumped right off (unloaded), but any unloaded Cat with 450 or better jumps right off too so I can see how turbines would have really smoked. I loved the AgCat because it didn't trundle down the runway like a Thrush or Tractor, it takes right off and lands super short. Goldman...

Never thought I'd see that again! If you can figure out how to post more that's great too. Don't know if I've met your friend or not, frankly. We were in and out of so many airplanes and situations back then in that field it's hard to know. We did have an operator fly in from Louisiana and...

Thanks for that! Was your friend Denny? John Snead and I picked up 2 TIO 540's from Lycoming and headed to Sam's in Salisbury to convert the B (under Bogg's orders). Got about 1/3 way into the (Denny supplied the B-Cat) conversion and Sam was proving to be one giant pain, stalling us at every...

There are/were probably many of us here that are very grateful for meeting and in some cases flying with the stick and rudder generation. In my case George Cosgrove above was my main ground tutor and gave me major jump on things before I turned the first blade (well, actually I hand propped the...

You are George Cosgrove (“Dad” Cosgrove to me) a brand new minted B-17 pilot for the United States Army Air Force separated from your original crew by flu, but fresh off the transport at a field in England expecting to receive something similar to this on arrival: A brand spanking new B-17 to...

I made this primarily for the kids to learn from but it might have some info you're not aware of too. With the "Pineapple Express" fired up over the spring & winter there has been a tremendous amount of gold moved in the western lower 48. I know you guys that detect in AK find some whopper...

Yes it was called that. Joe wasn't the only pilot, I forget how many they had but he was the most famous name of course. And yes the world is very different beginning with 9-11. Flying changed forever shortly after that when a lone quack suicide pilot took off in a Cessna and rammed the...

Good to see - thanks for the memories. I too have a lot of Cat time, it was by far my favorite. I knew Joe K. - the airplane(s) were actually owned by Bob Snow (Rosie O'Grady's Church Street Station). He owned all kinds of stuff - I remember us leaning out the Allison of a P-40 to see how far...

Agree - but there was one slight problem in the last years there: the water kept rising. I won't get into the politics of that, but the fact was we were getting water under the house 3X a year when in the previous 40 years it happened once (1993). The neighbors ground level homes flooded -...