Who has other Hobbies?
#44
Instructor
I'm with Skip on this one. I've had a private pilot license since 1992, since then I've had the opportunity to fly Pitts Specials, Extras 300s, and even 1.1hrs in the backseat of an F-16D in 2005. During that ride I did aerobatics and my pilot took us out to 1.22 Mach or about 860mph! Nowadays I'm relegated to 180hp Cessna 172s.
My biggest hobby is writer/photographer for Warbird Digest magazine which I've been doing since 2007. In the last six years I've flown in and/or with Corsairs, P-51s, Wildcats, Avengers, SNJs, and a Val dive bomber replica that was used in Tora! Tora! Tora! Even my wife got an Avenger ride about a month ago! I've also met and interviews many veteran pilot from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam some of whom were my childhood heroes.
Airplanes and Corvettes...never remember a time when I did not love them!
Chappie
My biggest hobby is writer/photographer for Warbird Digest magazine which I've been doing since 2007. In the last six years I've flown in and/or with Corsairs, P-51s, Wildcats, Avengers, SNJs, and a Val dive bomber replica that was used in Tora! Tora! Tora! Even my wife got an Avenger ride about a month ago! I've also met and interviews many veteran pilot from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam some of whom were my childhood heroes.
Airplanes and Corvettes...never remember a time when I did not love them!
Chappie
#45
Burning Brakes
I'm with Skip on this one. I've had a private pilot license since 1992, since then I've had the opportunity to fly Pitts Specials, Extras 300s, and even 1.1hrs in the backseat of an F-16D in 2005. During that ride I did aerobatics and my pilot took us out to 1.22 Mach or about 860mph! Nowadays I'm relegated to 180hp Cessna 172s.
My biggest hobby is writer/photographer for Warbird Digest magazine which I've been doing since 2007. In the last six years I've flown in and/or with Corsairs, P-51s, Wildcats, Avengers, SNJs, and a Val dive bomber replica that was used in Tora! Tora! Tora! Even my wife got an Avenger ride about a month ago! I've also met and interviews many veteran pilot from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam some of whom were my childhood heroes.
Airplanes and Corvettes...never remember a time when I did not love them!
Chappie
My biggest hobby is writer/photographer for Warbird Digest magazine which I've been doing since 2007. In the last six years I've flown in and/or with Corsairs, P-51s, Wildcats, Avengers, SNJs, and a Val dive bomber replica that was used in Tora! Tora! Tora! Even my wife got an Avenger ride about a month ago! I've also met and interviews many veteran pilot from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam some of whom were my childhood heroes.
Airplanes and Corvettes...never remember a time when I did not love them!
Chappie
Last edited by Skip Burney; 09-04-2013 at 07:23 PM.
#46
Instructor
Hey Skip. Tora Tora Tora is one of the top aviation/war movies in my opinion. Its been an honor to fly in that Val three times and photograph twice! I even logged some stick time. It was my photo plane with I did a air-to-air photo shoot with an FM-2 Wildcat.
If you like warbirds check out Warbird Digest! The newest issue has my story on Col Charles McGee- a Tuskegee Airman who flew a record 409 combat missions in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. Myself and the CAF organized a flight for him in a BT-13 that was painted like one he flew in Tuskegee in 1943.
Shoot me an email sometime and I'll send you a few photos. I'm not smart enough or patient enough to learn how to post them here.
Chappie
#48
Drifting
nice reef tank ddawson! i'm also a saltwater enthusiast, cars, and motorcycles (have a harley and a '66 Triumph Bonneville that i restored...oh, and saltwater fish is what i do for a living, here is my store...www.theaquariuminoldtown.com Rick
#49
Pro
Where do I begin? Let's see...Painting, drawing, sculpting, fitness (mostly weight lifting), nutrition, restoring my house, playing guitar, hiking, camping, biking, baseball, trivia contests, metal fabrication, I am sure I have more I am forgetting. I like doing things.
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Burning Brakes
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I have a Lionel O Guage Set and started to build a track years ago then had to move so it all sits in boxes until I get a basement again. One day I will build a town. I used to buy LGB Train Cars for my Father who also has a large Train Collection of American Flyer, Loinel, LGB and Bachman
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#58
Racer
My most expensive hobby would have to be flying, despite every captain I've ever talked to who have tried to steer me away from doing it professionally. Maybe one day.
#59
Le Mans Master
I build customized models, mostly aircraft and some cars. I like to build them for specific people or life events, but sometimes just do it to challenge myself. The following are some of the customized aircraft I built in the last several years.....
1/32 F-16CJ (award winner)....
1/72 WC-130J for my wife's current base (Keesler AFB)....
1/72 AC-130U for my office (when I was stationed at Hurlburt Fld, FL)....
1/72 B-52H for me (when I was stationed at Castle AFB, CA. This was the name of my B-52 when I was the crew chief....
1/48 F-16CJ for my son who is a Maintenance Officer at Misawa....
1/144 C-17 for my wife's Afghanistan deployment....
1/32 F-16CJ (award winner)....
1/72 WC-130J for my wife's current base (Keesler AFB)....
1/72 AC-130U for my office (when I was stationed at Hurlburt Fld, FL)....
1/72 B-52H for me (when I was stationed at Castle AFB, CA. This was the name of my B-52 when I was the crew chief....
1/48 F-16CJ for my son who is a Maintenance Officer at Misawa....
1/144 C-17 for my wife's Afghanistan deployment....
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