The International Cessna^® 170 Association

A BEAUTIFUL DAY it was in Minnesota and we went flying .....me and my gal. It is AMAZING what you can find within 50nm of your house and didn't even know there were there We had our own little air show frount row just me and the Mrs. as Ron and Evan Fagan did the flying

Hope you all had a nice Palm Sunday

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w

love the sound of those airplanes going by fast, I need to get back to Reno this Sept, been way too long. we can zip down to Kindred or Wahpeton ND and see Odegaard's or Beck's air forces which is pretty dang cool too. where did you find those airplanes W?

we went flying today too, just a little tour checking on washed out roads and surrounded farmsteads. water's down in town but outside the city limits there's a lot of overland flooding still. and I can not believe all the snow geese, glad they are staying down low or it would be dumb to be out in a Cessna with no armored windshield...

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It was at KGDB (Granite Falls)
I have been watching the news, boys you guys sure do have water up there wow. Hope we have some dry days and lots of sunshine.
Roger on the snow geese. Last weekend I think they were worse anyway around here, they were up around 4000' and alot of them i got back down on the ground without mishap

W.

Snow Geese, what is that? Yes I had to Google a picture. All we have is Canada Geese around here. Lots of them. So many in fact that is ALL you see. Where ever a flock makes their home it doesn't take them long to destroy the area with their fecal matter. They were largely responsible for shutting down at entire park water system to recreation because of it. An entire industry has grown around them to chase them away without hurting them, of course their protected.

Always interesting to hear and see pictures of the different wild life that is taken for granted in the different areas of our great country but probably unheard of in others. Pictures of Deer over running W's place was amazing. I only took note of a TV documentary of our countries feral pig problem because George told a story of an impromptu piggy hunt at his place. My first thought was, cute little piggies.

A little while back Ron had some pictures of local alligators which had become a problem stalking the locals. Gators in your back yard I thought, I've got to see that some time which was one reason for my recent visit to his place. While hunting for the gator we saw a few big black birds. One swimming and diving for food. Out of the corner of his eye Ron saw one dive and thought it might have been a gator. When it popped back up Ron said "oh it's only a Phalacrocorax auritus". OK OK, he didn't really didn't call it that but he was going to till he realized he needed to dumb it down a bit for the visitor in his company.

BTW W, it is always a good day when you come across a P51 and a P47 let alone two P47s that you can view and see operate at such a small and personal venue.

Bruce,

Just wanted to let you know that you do in fact have snow geese around you, I come up to Middle Creek Wildlife reserve each year to hunt them...but they're hard to identify from the ground when they're in their V's. They look like Canadian Geese that far away. Either way both types will ruin your day if hit by your aircraft! I'm doing my part each year to help control the population!

[quote="HA"]love the sound of those airplanes going by fast, I need to get back to Reno this Sept, been way too long.

here is some P-51 music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwOzyVc4wek

All we have is Canada Geese around here.

I'd like to add to rupertjl's conclusion of the existence of snows (snow geese, Chen caerulescens) in the Mid Atlantic. Around Gettysburg, PA, their mornful whistling can be heard. One should then look WAY up to find large flights. I haven't noticed any for a few months, but they're around. They're much more prevalent on the Eastern Shore and in Southern Maryland, however. Also known as the Blue Goose as their alternate color phase is that gun-metal blue on most of its body.

The point being, my sightings of snows have seen them only in large numbers. A typically "small" flock would be about 500. They can easily exceed 1000 birds at a time. Would hate to encounter that many at altitude. Visions of the Me109 being brought down by the flock of gulls in that Indiana Jones movie come to mind...

They look like Canadian Geese that far away.

At the risk of sarcasm, I've never seen a Canadian Goose. I've seen and hunted many a Canada Goose (Branta canadensis , however.

This time of year we always have to watch for the Canadians and Snow because just SE at Middle Creek they have a resting time until going north. They are about 10mile as the geese fly to the SE.

John

Bruce,

Which P-47 were you refering to?

Blue, Bruce was just 7 digets off--------how about P-40's

And I was a few letters off How about DIGITS

I'd sure as hell hate to be fighting in a war with a guy who is having Bruces identification problem. I guess his problem is age. He's too young to be
inthe WWll class.

blueldr, Bruce is a youngster by some comparisons, but he's a goodun Only reason he identified those P-40's as P-47's is all that metal whirling around over his head everyday messes with his identification brain waves Now if he had been identifying some old whirlybird photo, I'll bet he would be right on. Don't ya think

170C wrote:blueldr, Bruce is a youngster by some comparisons, but he's a goodun Only reason he identified those P-40's as P-47's is all that metal whirling around over his head everyday messes with his identification brain waves Now if he had been identifying some old whirlybird photo, I'll bet he would be right on. Don't ya think

NOT Bruce:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uybbxn27wT0

ALSO not Bruce: (We've actually SEEN him make shorter landings using VG's):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG-WP34Z ... re=related

OK OK I deserve that. I knew they were P40s Can't figure why I typed P47. I suppose I was so taken back by the fact that they were P40s which are very rare and then there were two of them.