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Wanted to share a few pics of a fantastic day yesterday. I haven't been actively flying for 15 years now so I got set up with Warren Pietsch in Minot, ND to give me some dual and get me prepared to start flying the Duster some day. We spent some time in a Luscombe and I realized I have allot of rust to chip away at 
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After we were done flying I spent the rest of the afternoon in somewhat of a dream world. Warren is involved with the Texas Flying Legends museum http://www.texasflyinglegends.org/ and they were busy doing annuals/maintenance on the planes which they bring up to Minot, from Texas, for a couple months. I got to hang out, watch them run up and fly the Corsair and Mustang and then helped move some of them around to and from the museum to the maintenance hanger. What a day to be around all that fantastic history. I never would have thought there would be something like that going on in Minot, ND!
Note in the second to last pic, the Starduster TOO hanging above the TBM. This was his dad, Alfred's, plane. He flew it all over the country in airshows. The subject of aileron size came up in another thread. I asked Warren and he said the ailerons were lengthened one bay inboard and outboard.
If any of you ever get up this way it is well worth the time to stop in. There are two Mustangs, a Corsair, P-40, Wildcat, TBM, B-25, and the Zero.
. After we were done flying I spent the rest of the afternoon in somewhat of a dream world. Warren is involved with the Texas Flying Legends museum http://www.texasflyinglegends.org/ and they were busy doing annuals/maintenance on the planes which they bring up to Minot, from Texas, for a couple months. I got to hang out, watch them run up and fly the Corsair and Mustang and then helped move some of them around to and from the museum to the maintenance hanger. What a day to be around all that fantastic history. I never would have thought there would be something like that going on in Minot, ND!
Note in the second to last pic, the Starduster TOO hanging above the TBM. This was his dad, Alfred's, plane. He flew it all over the country in airshows. The subject of aileron size came up in another thread. I asked Warren and he said the ailerons were lengthened one bay inboard and outboard.
If any of you ever get up this way it is well worth the time to stop in. There are two Mustangs, a Corsair, P-40, Wildcat, TBM, B-25, and the Zero.
