2j4

[Dave S]

Lowell,

Good news....the airport you landed at is unequivocally 2C4 (Chatfield) as Avidflyer suggested.

1) Around time 1:40 on the video - check out the three silos on the other side of the quonset barn...Two with round tops and one without.

2) The hangar with the trees in the SW corner - that's it. I believe the hangar has a newer white roof now.

3) The funny shaped row of trees south of the departure end.....that's linear/crescent shaped sinkhole.

If you have some footage of the area north east of the silos/barn across the road - there is a whole family of round shaped sinkholes. Can't farm sinkholes for crap - so the older ones get trees.


Google earth it.....works out.

100%

Dave S

[HighWing]

Dave,
Thanks for the help on this. I do keep a fairly detailed flight log, but I think this landing was one of those where something so good demands a minor change in plans. The change in plans thing is a perfect description of the eight of us when we flew together. Never advance reservations as we would rarely be at the planned days end location. My note - 2J4 was scribbled on my sheet likely from a radio transmission.

I have lots more to do on the California - Oshkosh and return. I am trying to keep them at around five minutes per segment. Maybe a couple of weeks and they will start coming online.

Thanks again for the help.

[Dave S]

Lowell,

Sincerely glad I could help...looking forward to your u-Tube posts when they are ready.

Chatfield is an excellent but underutilized grass strip. More people should go there....we'll even let people who don't fly kitfoxes land there...it's plenty long and has an excellent surface.

You know, there is a great deal of truth in your comment regarding not making reservations when flying out....being a gypsie is so much more fun and you can take all the side trips you want when something interesting shows up. I know I need to do more since we have an appropriate set of lightweight camping gear and decent tiedowns + aircraft cover now - with food on board we could easily travel & camp out of the plane for a week without seeing a store of any kind.

Your work with your video materials is a great source of interest and motivation.

[HighWing]

Dave,
Thanks for your help and comments. I guess if there are any regrets, it is that we didn't focus more on the Kitfox guys out there on the way to Osh. Then again, I was pretty much the only list or forum guy in the group. Some of us still talk of doing it again, but of the original 8 to Oshkosh, one sold his Kitfox, one sold his Rans S-6 and now flies a Glastar - behind the power curve if he flew with us again, another got married and that rightfully became his focus. Two moved out of state and one now sells Zippers. That leaves me and my buddy who now lives just down the street in our airpark Both of us are now closer to 100 than to 50 so the inevitable passage of time has a way to modify our dreams and goals.

[mr bill]

Time and gravity are not our friends