VAA 16 Fly-in
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Not a great start for a fly-in
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View from the FBO looking east about 8:30 a.m.
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The CAP ready, waiting and hopeful.
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Activity begins
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The name says it all for the day thus far, Funk
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Ron and Bob pull the Funk out to move to the flight line
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Taxiing the Funk
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Ron decides to fly the Funk and do a couple of low passes with me on board for my first Funk flight...really great fun!
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A view of the few planes and people gathered as we do the first low pass.
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The Funk is moved into place on the flight line.
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Jerry and Nancy Gippner's pretty Luscombe, Lucille with the very nice and spunky "Air Force" RV.
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The CAP goes into action.
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A really nice, beautiful Cessna 170.
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Attention getting Stinson Gull Wing.
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Jeff Sullens, Fly-in Co-chair, checks out a project he's put lots of hours into, the Flybaby.
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I don't care who you are, that's pretty!
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Another view of the Chapter project, the Flybaby.
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Great if you are a rice grower.
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Not all the pretty are airplanes!
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An essential part of the big picture.
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John Swander's hangar with great vintage transportation inside and out
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The 2011 T-shirt artwork planes together again--Bob Williams' PT-22 and Mark McCasland's Waco UBF-2
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One of several really nice Stardusters that came.
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View of the field.
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When Bill Hare gets ready to announce...it's really a fly-in!
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Party at Swander's hangar....great observation area looking right out to the flight line.
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From breakfast done by Dick Hartzler to lunch organized by Bob Gandy...everyone was well fed at bargain prices!
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Loy's Toys. Always a favorite looking and photographing, Loy Hickman's Corvette and Piper Cub.
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Could have been a long time ago....
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This looks like ghost of fly-ins past as well....
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Proud owner .... Loy Hickman in the blue shirt on the left.
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Bob Williams back from doing some flying
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One seventy reflections...
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My self-protrait
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More one seventy reflections
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The flight line
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Dick, Linda and Nancy manned (and womaned) the Registration tent and t-shirt sales.
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Kevin Pratt (Flybaby currently lives in his garage) with an interested aviation buff.
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More technical talk.
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One of the really nice RVs that came.
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Modeling this year's shirt in the granite colored ladies "burnout" style, Mackenzie and Linda Pratt, daughter and mother.
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2011 t-shirt artwork
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All in the family...Carol Womack and Kevin Pratt pose in front of Kevin's beautiful Staggerwing. Kevin is the fly-in co-chair and Carol's son.
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One of the last to leave, this pretty little RV with the BEST LOGO anywhere! :) And yes, it was headed to Lawrence!