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| Restored 1937 WACO Staggerwing |
The Florence Lion's Club puts on a magnificent outdoor breakfast on these fly-in Saturday mornings, and I ate my share of pancakes, sausages, and scrambled eggs, washed down with plenty of hot coffee. Pretty much all you can eat for $8, and all for a good cause.
You never know what you'll find sitting out there on the tarmac. This time, what got my attention was a recently restored 1937 WACO Staggerwing, which two men laboured over for more than seven years on evenings and weekends. Seeing it up-close-and-personal is such a treat, seeing it running, taking off, and flying off is something else again. We're talking aviation history here, and this is a rare diamond indeed.
Biplanes are in fact rare birds, and I must have a thing for them, because I did a YouTube video of a Coolidge fly-in back in 2012, and it featured a Beechcraft Stillman Model 17 Staggerwing.
If you're on holidays, in the Phoenix area, and interested in aviation, Coolidge is a great place on a Saturday morning. Go early, by 11 am the looking is over, and the pilots and their planes are heading home. I usually arrive around 8:30 am, and that works perfect. There is no charge, and you can wander about, feast your eyes, and even talk it up with some of the owners who don't mind taking time to tell you all about their planes. Enjoy, and bring your camera.
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| The smell inside this cockpit didn't come cheap - think Rolls-Royce |
Hey, Cam.... it works! I had actually wanted to add some comments concerning the topic "fifth wheel vs Park model" .
ReplyDeleteWe too faced that choice a few years ago as we had a 5th wheel that we really enjoyed and in fact liked better than the same size park model we bought, but..... if you want a garden and a bit of a yard you can call your own and a nice large two car port and you want to be sure you're going to be in the same place each year then a park model is probably best.
Love your blog! Your friend, Tom.