Why I Go Back to Coolidge

Given so few Adam A500 aircraft were ever produced (7), seeing one is indeed rare.

This plane has two engines providing a push-pull configuration. What I found interesting, with a full fuel load, the airplane apparently does not have the load capacity for even the pilot.

The airframe is largely built of Carbon epoxy. The cabin is pressurized and there is room for five passengers.

Then there is this gyroplane with its 80 HP engine. I think it is called a Rhoads Mark E Woodstock ll.

There was general agreement among those at Coolidge last weekend that it would take a special kind of courage to head into the clear blue sky on one of these.

 Dale Ison's, Heroes Monster Truck was also on display, at Coolidge last weekend. It took five years to build Heroes, at a cost of $650,000.

Heroes has toured the U.S. in support of veteran causes over the last decade. It was purchased at Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale in January 2013 along with the trailer that hauls it for $357,500 to Kent Lundine of Casper, WY. Herores full body paint was done by famed airbrush artist Mickey Harris of Cosby, TN.

Heroes travels in this Kenworth Semi, which also has Mikey Harris airbrush work. Named, Dragon Master, there is said to be over 3,800 man-hours of airbrush work, which apparently cost in excess of $130,000.

Lundine plans to keep both vehicles in public view in support of veteran causes.