---------------------------------------------------------- Commander-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Wed 08/20/03: 6 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 06:30 AM - Re: Commanders For Sale (ProgSearch@aol.com) 2. 10:19 AM - Re: Commanders For Sale (Bill Williams) 3. 08:54 PM - Shrike Photos (Andrew & Bridget Watson) 4. 09:08 PM - Re: Shrike Photos (css nico) 5. 09:08 PM - Mystery plane (css nico) 6. 10:00 PM - IGUANA FLIGHT (YOURTCFG@aol.com) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 06:30:42 AM PST US From: ProgSearch@aol.com Subject: Re: Commander-List: Commanders For Sale --> Commander-List message posted by: ProgSearch@aol.com Bill, The two Commanders from Chile are now in the United States. The broker has them in the Miami area and is wanting to sell them both. Do you have any interest in them? A 1973 Shrike and a 1976 Shrike. Let me know if you want me to email you pictures of the aircraft. Kevin Coons ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 10:19:50 AM PST US From: "Bill Williams" Subject: RE: Commander-List: Commanders For Sale --> Commander-List message posted by: "Bill Williams" Kevin: Yes, we'd be interested in the two shrikes. Do you have more details? Bill Williams AirMatrix 17705 49th Place N.E. KAWO Hangar D Arlington, WA 98223 360-435-7343 ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 08:54:19 PM PST US From: Andrew & Bridget Watson Subject: Commander-List: Shrike Photos --> Commander-List message posted by: Andrew & Bridget Watson Hi everybody, I'm developing a website to publicize my book and I need some Shrike photos. Does anybody have some that I could use, please? If you have a couple of a Shrike in flight, I'd really appreciate using them. Naturally, I'd credit the owner and photographer. Thanks in advance. Regards, Andrew. ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 09:08:53 PM PST US From: "css nico" Subject: Re: Commander-List: Shrike Photos --> Commander-List message posted by: "css nico" Snoop around here a bit, Andrew. I am the photographer of only some of these. http://www.acu.org/images/aviation/Others/AVTEK/ Thanks Nico ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew & Bridget Watson" Subject: Commander-List: Shrike Photos > --> Commander-List message posted by: Andrew & Bridget Watson > > Hi everybody, > > I'm developing a website to publicize my book and I need some Shrike photos. Does anybody have some that I could use, please? If you have a couple of a Shrike in flight, I'd really appreciate using them. Naturally, I'd credit the owner and photographer. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Andrew. > > ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 09:08:53 PM PST US From: "css nico" Subject: Commander-List: Mystery plane --> Commander-List message posted by: "css nico" Folks, About a week or so ago I mentioned the weird plane that I saw at Camarillo CA. Well, I went out there today and took a few pictures of it. It is not such a big mystery afterall. Its an Avtek pusher. Here's the link to the pics on my website. I have posted other aviation related pics on that site also that I collected here and there, still without captions, which will be added in due course. So, snoop around if you wish. Some pictures you guys would recognize and some not. I resized files larger than 150k and posted them with the same name as the larger files but with a suffix 'small', so if you have a slow connection, you may want to open those instead. I will post more pictures of weird stuff that I come across as I go from airfield to airfield, hardly ever passing through a town without wanting to find the airfield. I have pictures of a weird warbird that I saw on (what seemed like) an abandoned airfield in France, which I have only on video. I will transfer it to a still image and post it perhaps someone knows what it is. http://www.acu.org/images/aviation/Others/AVTEK/ Thanks Nico ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 10:00:59 PM PST US From: YOURTCFG@aol.com Subject: Commander-List: IGUANA FLIGHT --> Commander-List message posted by: YOURTCFG@aol.com HI KIDS. Well, The newsletters are finally in the mail!! What a wrestling match!!. Everybody should have them in a few days. I will be sending another right after the flyin to get back in schedule. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had a rather unique mission to fly delivering a couple of iguanas from a rescue in Seattle. It is finished. I flew triple 2 2100 Nautical miles over three days. It began with a short run from PDX to a small private field in the Seattle area. Apex is great little airport. I met the gal form the rescue and placed aboard two great iguanas. Cleo is a 7 year old female with some serious health issues. She suffered from Metabolic bone desises as a baby and now has a badly deformed face. She also is missing a total of 5 tows, but she is now healthy, happy and a real survivor. I delivered her to a new home in Billings Montana (BIL), 579KM form here. The trip was short with a bit of a tailwind, but lots of TFRAs for forest fires. One was identified by a 5 corned box (" the 030 radial from the xyz vor, 22miles to a point 033 radial and 26 miles to a point......") I spent a couple of hours helping her adjust and then was off to Caldwell Idaho, about 400KM. I was met by my Son, Chad, and a close friend Jim Raeder. Jim is a pro photographer and works for the EAA. He had arranged a photo shoot of a new homebuilt Super Cub clone on amphibious floats. I will be writing an article for In Flight USA about the airplane. I flew the camera ship on this mission and then did a flight test on the airplane the next day, what a great airplane. Why would anybody want a "certified" Cub?? My Son's flight instructor is red hot to own a 680E so I gave him a demo flight. What fun!! He is now really looking for his own Commander. The next day I left for Stockton CA and had lunch with Morris Kernick. I had an appointment to deliver the second iguana, "Pox" to her new home late that afternoon from Hayward. Pox stole my heart. She is truly a wonderful pet. Shortly after t.o. from Billings, I let her out of her cage (I removed the RH center seat to accommodate a couple of iguana cages). She sat on my leather flight bag, on the co-pilot seat and looked out the window. She really had a great flight and acted like she actually enjoyed flying. On the trip to Stockton, she also rode on the seat or on my shoulder. She had no problem dinning on collard greens 2.5 miles high. I have some great photos of her including one of her reflection in the spinner while sleeping on my arm. She is truly a little doll. I got finished up with her delivery about 9pm and made a night t.o. out of Hayward. What a great night flight home!! 12.5, not a cloud in the night sky. I had a ripping tail wind and saw 248KTS ground speed (287mph!!) I made the nearly 500 KM trip in about 2 hours. I flew by the east side of Mt. Shasta and with the full moon, I could see it clearly! Old triple 2 worked perfect. Never missed a beat and always delivered 200mph. I really do love that old airplane. Hope all is well in your Commanderland AN THAT ALL OF YOU MAKE IT TO THE FLY-IN!! DOOONNNTTT MIS THIS ONE!! jb