Country drives…
You find some interesting things…
Like wild marshmallows that need harvesting!
Seriously, I can’t remember seeing this much hay stacked in the fields in a long time! Hay’s going to be cheep this year!
One wag, either bored or tired of waiting for TXDOT, cut the ‘hay’ on the right of way for about 1/4 mile, on 82 between Sherman and Bonham, and got EIGHT rolls of hay!
The other interesting thing is to see an old airliner basically sitting in the middle of nowhere…
It’s an old Martin 404, sitting at a duster strip outside Paris, Texas… It seems totally out of place, as there doesn’t even look like there is an airport there…
However, there IS more to the story…
The former home of the Flying Tiger Airport, Junior Burchinal’s passion, and home of a number of WWII warbirds, in addition to his duster strip. I can remember in the 1960s seeing a variety of ‘strange’ airplanes when we drove by there… You can read more about it, HERE.
Nothing like that could happen today… sigh…
That was a great article!
Wow.
Yep, those marshmallow farms grow them giant-size!
Wow, neat, and too bad the opportunity isn’t still around. I sometimes wish I had been born in the 30’s/ early 40’s and had the opportunity to experience so many things I can only read about now.
airbum.com! That was one of the places I first researched my T-crate, having never flown one before I bought my project!
…okay, I’m about to click that link and lose the rest of my day!
Roger- It was!
Sam- LOL, yep!
Jonathan- Agreed! Or at least that was affordable… sigh…
Wing- Enjoy! 😀
Great link – thanks! Hay farmers in Missouri used to occasionally paint faces on those plastic wraps; it helped keep the cross-country drives interesting.
Or turn them into pumpkins, or stick an old set of coveralls and boots on the front (stuffed with hay to make them stick out) as a joke. I saw one that had been painted with colored stripes and someone stuck 6′ or so of white PVC pipe into the side as a lollypop stick. 🙂
Hey Old NFO;
YOu know that you could take that plane home with you and you could get it running…..project kinda thing…Just a thought….You know….Just a thought…..something to think about….something entertaining…something to pass the time….an idea…Just a thought…
Back in the sixties, I took a Cherokee 140 on a student pilot long solo XC to Flying Tiger Field. What I remember was that the runway was just barely wide enough for the main gear on the 140. Didn’t talk to anybody. Just a student pilot in a 140.
Hi Jim, Been a long time since I was in one but that thing looks like a Convair R4 Y-Z that I used to fly all over Europe in! Looks to be sporting a couple of R-2800 engines too! Also could be that I am getting a little soft in the head as I am about to trip over 80 here in about one month!
Rev- Haven’t seen those…LOL
TXRed- LOL
Bob- I don’t have the $$ sigh… or I should say I don’t have the $$$$ 🙁
Home- Yeah, I think it was 13 feet wide (the paved part)…
Ev- It’s a Martin 404, I checked… Built in 1952 for Eastern. Congrats on the upcoming B-Day!!!
Not enough $$$$ That’s why you get J.D., Ross, and others to chip it. Party plane!
I wasn’t fooled by the marshmallow idea, everybody knows they are giant rounds of cheese.
There’s an aircraft salvage yard just south of Rantoul, Kansas. Across the road from it they have an airstrip so that they can bring in planes that are still flyable, some of which can be seen from the road. There has been some interesting stuff parked there in past. My dad said he once saw a Ford Tri-motor parked there. I hope it was a restoration project.
JL? cheep or cheap? 🙂