Barnstormer Era

[JohnReid]

I think the Waco and Travelair are the best looking airplanes of the era.Nice,moody pics.

[AAC Cadet Leader]

Baldeagle,
The Waco banking in the mist at sunrise is my favorite! Great pics and stories. No doubt that's Frank Pavliga's Pietenpol. Will you guys be barnstorming this summer?

Sold your Fleet?!

[ONEALM]

Sold your Fleet?!

More like passed it along. Tough to sell memories and experiences, but the hardware that produced them can be sold. I have the hardware now. The obviously tremendous experiences Andrew had owning and flying this great old airplane are still his - I have to make my own.....

[AAC Cadet Leader]

Well then, that's alright. I approve. If I can't own it, at least it's going to a good home and staying in the "family," - the aerodrome family, that is. Congratulations One Arm, Mike! BTW, the very best taildragger landing I ever made, (one of the few good ones, at least), was in Carl Pesceral's Fleet. Wanted to buy one immediately after that.

[baldeagle]

Yes, AAC, if we can afford the gas we'll be sleeping in the alfalfa again this year...

[AAC Cadet Leader]

Originally Posted by baldeagle

Yes, AAC, if we can afford the gas we'll be sleeping in the alfalfa again this year...

Sleeping in the alfalfa fields...ah, the stuff of summer flying dreams.

At $3/gal for auto gas, what's the price up to on av-gas these days?

[ONEALM]

Here's a good shot of the Fleet, in gray scale...just like in the 30's.

[AAC Cadet Leader]

That beautiful Fleet didn't at one time belong to Wayne Edsell of Bozemn, Montana did it?

[baldeagle]

No, I think Wayne still has his, which was once based in College Park, MD at the flying school. The museum there would like to have it, but Wayne doesn't want to part with it. Mike's Fleet was restored in the '80s by a guy in Illinois, then went to Florida for many years, until I bought it.

[AAC Cadet Leader]

Okay. Then was it Carl Pescarel's in St Augustine, FL??
I got rides in both Wayne's and Carl's Fleets in 1988.