Flying Stories; I had one of my best trips in October this year. The flight was from Kansas City up to Granite Falls, MN (KGDB). I used the KR2S for business which is pretty rare, but in this case the weather looked good and the time I saved was even better. To get to Granite Falls you have to fly commercial to Minneapolis, then drive 2 1/2 hours to Granite Falls. Flying the KR was only 3 to 4 hours each way depending the headwind/tailwind. That wasn?t' the coolest part however. Granite Falls airport is the home of Ron Fagen (Owner of Fagen Inc.) My business visit was to see the Fagen folks regarding an Engineering project my company is developing with their construction folks. Ron Fagen is big in the aviation community and owns several warbirds. Two of the more famous ones are specifically the P38 ?Ruff Stuff? and the P51 ?Twilight Tear? which won the Grand Champion Warbird at Oshkosh this last summer. I got a personal tour of Ron's warbirds up close - wow! I also got to go into their restoration shop where they are now restoring a P40 Warhawk ? which will be at least the 3rd one flying that Ron owns. Ron saw my little KR2S on the ramp and had to come out and look it over himself! You wouldn?t think a little KR would get someone?s attention like Ron, but he was genuinely interested and asked several questions about it. Ron is building a WWII museum on the airport which will probably be open sometime in 2012 for pubic visitors. The Hanger will be a direct replica of a WWII facility with his airplanes in it. Definitely, this will be on my future flight lists.
Link to the Oshkosh story on Twilight Tear is http://www.airventure.org/news/2011/110728_p51.html Thanks, Rob Schmitt N1852Z www.robert7721.com List-Post: [email protected] Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:28:58 -0600 From: Mike Sylvester <[email protected]> Subject: KR> flying stories ? To: KRNET <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
