Identifying a Motorola chip - MC14544?( OT)(actually grass ai rports)
> Ethan wrote
> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated; Particularly since the people
> that
> >> own the property have sold off the end of the strip to a local farmer
> who
> >> keeps cows there... And the other pilots are a bit too soft to leap the
> >> fence and wander through a herd of cattle in the middle of the night
> just
> >> to turn on the lamps...
> >
> >I've been to a strip in NW Ohio, Fremont, that has a grass strip butting
> >into a narrow asphalt strip in a Tee shape... the State airport guide
> >warns that cows may be present on the grass runway and to perform a
> >flyover before attempting a landing there.
>
> I live across the street for an inactive grass field, main problem for
> pilots was deer
> and dogs on the runway. We could never fly kites or launch Estes rockets
> this close to an airport.
> I once had my dinner interrupted by a pilot who crashed and walked up to
> the house and asked to
> use the telephone. His Globe Swift's alternator had failed. He couldn't
> manually crank down the
> landing gear and wanted to land on grass to save the plane. Now we have a
> sixty acre park, we
> still mow the runway, great for walking dogs and exercise, no cars
> allowed. Occasional wood chucks,
> deer, turkeys, and foxes however.
>
> Mike
Received on Tue Feb 25 2003 - 12:48:00 GMT
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