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1. 05:47 AM - Re: Commander-List Digest: 1 Msgs - 05/04/04 (Robert C. Bullock)
2. 09:18 PM - GOOD TO FLY! (YOURTCFG@aol.com)
3. 09:27 PM - Re: GOOD TO FLY! (John Vormbaum)
4. 09:33 PM - Re: GOOD TO FLY! (YOURTCFG@aol.com)
5. 10:00 PM - Disturbing Commander Sighting (CloudCraft@aol.com)
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| Subject: | RE: Commander-List Digest: 1 Msgs - 05/04/04 |
--> Commander-List message posted by: "Robert C. Bullock" <rcbullock@cox.net>
Funny, the next message in my inbox has the title "Gear Up for Summer etc
etc." From TRU/Amazon...
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1. 12:08 AM - Gear down, check 3 green, or "How to make your gear
lights intermittent" (Alan Kucheck)
gear down is no
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--> Commander-List message posted by: YOURTCFG@aol.com
HI KIDS.
It is so good to be flying a Commander again!! I took a short trip
in triple 2 over ti Hillsboro. Met with Swede Ralston (Those of you who were
at our first flyin will remember the TCFG gave Swede pur lifetime achievement
award). He has a Commander 100-180 for sale and the buyer asked me to do an
apprasial. Great weather and the 680E is running great!! Flew a practice
approach to HIO (went pretty poorly) but what a great day to be in the air in a
Commander. Hope all is well in your Commanderland. jb
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| Subject: | Re: GOOD TO FLY! |
--> Commander-List message posted by: "John Vormbaum" <john@vormbaum.com>
Jimbob,
GREAT news that 222 is flying again! The world is once again back in order,
with the Renegade Commander tearing up the sky!
It looks like I'm going to have 353 Chicken Charlie painted in St. Louis in
late summer; hopefully that means I'll be flying a freshly painted Commander
to the fly-in in KC. I can't wait...can you imagine, the chance to show off
a newly painted Aero Commander to a crowd that might include Bob Hoover?
COOL!
/John
----- Original Message -----
From: <YOURTCFG@aol.com>
Subject: Commander-List: GOOD TO FLY!
> --> Commander-List message posted by: YOURTCFG@aol.com
>
> HI KIDS.
>
> It is so good to be flying a Commander again!! I took a short
trip
> in triple 2 over ti Hillsboro. Met with Swede Ralston (Those of you who
were
> at our first flyin will remember the TCFG gave Swede pur lifetime
achievement
> award). He has a Commander 100-180 for sale and the buyer asked me to do
an
> apprasial. Great weather and the 680E is running great!! Flew a practice
> approach to HIO (went pretty poorly) but what a great day to be in the air
in a
> Commander. Hope all is well in your Commanderland. jb
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: GOOD TO FLY! |
--> Commander-List message posted by: YOURTCFG@aol.com
In a message dated 5/5/2004 9:28:36 PM Pacific Standard Time,
john@vormbaum.com writes:
It looks like I'm going to have 353 Chicken Charlie painted in St. Louis in
late summer; hopefully that means I'll be flying a freshly painted Commander
to the fly-in in KC. I can't wait...can you imagine, the chance to show off
a newly painted Aero Commander to a crowd that might include Bob Hoover?
COOL!
YIPPI!! What great news!! What colors?? jb
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| Subject: | Disturbing Commander Sighting |
--> Commander-List message posted by: CloudCraft@aol.com
First off, I want to congratulate Capt. JimBob on getting his 680 airborne
again.
You've been very resourceful in coming up with engines, etc., and I salute
your dedication.
I heard an extractor exhaust powered twin fly over my house a few days ago
and paused to realize how rare that sound has become. Don't know if it was a
Commander or a Beech, just as when I hear radials I don't know what it is, but
I'm just happy to hear that sound.
Now, on to what was supposed to be a happy look at living history that turned
out to be a tragedy:
I was at Rockford, Illinois (KRFD) on Tuesday. Flew the Big Boss Man to a
meeting with Rubloff Aviation on the North East corner of the field. To my
thrill I spotted an AC-520 next to (well, a helicopter was in between them) a
Douglas A-26.
From a distance, it was a perfect picture. One of Ted Smith's projects at
Douglas -- and his first production model Commander. The lineage was so
apparent in the tail group ... don't know if any of you have seen an early Commander
next to an A-20 or A-26, but it's like looking at parents and child and
seeing the resemblance.
Anyway, I was shocked when I got up to N2636B. This is an AC-520, s/n
520-148. Both engines are off and the tires are flat. That's not horrible in
itself, but the copilot windshield is bashed in and there are 2" diameter,
pentagon shaped holes punched in the vertical stabilizer and right side aft
fuselage. There are what look like hatchet gashes on the pilot's side.
My first thought was that tornado blown debris hit the airplane, but the
holes I mentioned were all to consistent in shape and size and were on the side
as
well as the top of the aft fuselage.
Someone has viciously harmed this Commander. Does anyone know the story?
Wing Commander Gordon
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