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- Jun 10, 2006
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G^2
Saturday morning and the sky is clear. Didn't get out yesterday, had our second Thanksgiving Dinner with our daughter who had to work Thursday at the hospital. So Saturday is my day to fly.
Headed for N99 Brandywine, PA, just under the Class B airspace of Philadephia, PA and home of the American Helicopter Museum. Sideways winds cost some time, 2.3 hrs down. The airport is very active with all sorts of aircraft. Privately owned airport, not county run makes a big difference. Very clean, and well run.
The Museum is on the opposite side of the runway from the FBO. You can not miss it, with the massive tilt rotor Osprey on display facing the runway. Not exactly the largest museum however it was very interesting and learned much about our distant cousin, the helicopter.
IF you think early aviators were brave souls, you should look at the machines early helicopter pilots strapped themselves into. Complex to fly and tedious to maintain, helicopters found a natural home in the armed forces changing the way we go to war forever.
My hats off the the designers of these intricate machines and to the pilots who fly them.
Gary Gembala
Headed for N99 Brandywine, PA, just under the Class B airspace of Philadephia, PA and home of the American Helicopter Museum. Sideways winds cost some time, 2.3 hrs down. The airport is very active with all sorts of aircraft. Privately owned airport, not county run makes a big difference. Very clean, and well run.
The Museum is on the opposite side of the runway from the FBO. You can not miss it, with the massive tilt rotor Osprey on display facing the runway. Not exactly the largest museum however it was very interesting and learned much about our distant cousin, the helicopter.
IF you think early aviators were brave souls, you should look at the machines early helicopter pilots strapped themselves into. Complex to fly and tedious to maintain, helicopters found a natural home in the armed forces changing the way we go to war forever.
My hats off the the designers of these intricate machines and to the pilots who fly them.
Gary Gembala