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First flight! September 9, 2001, with Tom Irlbeck flying.
Minneapolis is the the background.
A little inverted fun with an RV8 built and flown by Tom Irlbeck
These planes are fun! Picture taken by a brave passenger.
I was honored to fly #4 in a missing man formation for a good friend and fellow
RV builder named Herb Nemeth who was taken from us far too early by cancer.
My RV mentor and all around good guy, Tom Irlbeck (he learned to do this in the
Navy).
Just north of Naples, Florida, on the way from Key West to Ft. Myers, 2002
Heading north, west of Tampa Florida, April 2002
Jumped a B17, this was just before I shot it down, July 2003
North Yellowstone area, August 2003. We were about to pass through an
approaching cold front, which was really turbulent!
Southern MT, August 2003
Snake River, between ID and OR.
About
35 nm east of McCall Idaho, August 2003.
Descending into beautiful McCall, ID, August 2003.
Coming in on Bernie Weiss' Bonanza for a photo shoot near Mt. Hood, OR, August
2003
Near Mt. Hood, Oregon, August 2003, with friend Steve Foster in his -8.
The layer below is smoke from forest fires.
Descending in a canyon towards Mt. Rainier, enroute to Packwood WA, August 2003.
Just on the north side of Mt. St. Helens, WA, August 2003.
Flying east along the Columbia River, between WA and OR.
Left to right, Mts. St. Helens, Rainier and Adam in WA, August 2003
Columbia River, through forest fire smoke.
Smoke from forest fires south of Missoula, MT, August 2003.
On final at Helena, MT "Big Sky Country" defined, August 2003
Near Rock Springs, MT, August 2003.