April 2012
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Wow it has been (3) years since my last post! WOW!...
Well, 3 years is quite awhile. Lot has gone on since then. After my trip to Reno, I went home to Hubbard, OR and back to work at MII. Almost a year later I started on my float rating with Ryan Smith in his PA-12 on the Willamette River, just above the Oregon City Falls. Later in the year I had the oppertunity to get my Inspection Authorization (allows me to inspect and sign-off aircraft). Then...
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Going to see an old friend.....
Well before I get to involved with the pictures, this is what is going on. I decided that I had a need to get out of the valley for a vacation and originally I was going to fly to Nimpo Lake in Canada with our first turbo STC customer John. As it turned out John had to work at grading for a contract that his company was awarded, so since I had already had the time off I thought it was a prime time...
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Meeting of more Helmericks family and another...
So over the years I have only to have talked and met with Bud, Martha and thier son Jeff. As always I do a little research every time I blog to see if I can find another bit of info on Bud and his family and life in the Arctic. Well the other night I ran across a web page http://www.goldenplover.org/index.html which is a family website for Jim and Teena Helmericks. I have since contacted them and...
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Updated complete!
Amazing isn’t it!? It is actually up-to-date for once! Thank you for your patience and I hope to be bringing you more fun photos and stories in the next couple months before the flying season diminishes into winter. 2 things that are coming up is a fly-in /airshow in Madras and the Hood River fly-in at the WAAAM museum again. I am trying to work out a group of 140 drivers to meet up in...
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