RV-12 737G - 500 hours! | Bob Bogash
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On
Thursday, March 29, 2017, my Vans RV-12 airplane reached 500 hours of flight
time.
About 1000 flights into about 100 airports It was just under four years since her First Flight The following photo essay recounts (just) some of her many adventures. Departing Paine Field 500 Hours! March 17, 2012 - Arrival of the kit Working with Tony T. - my Bro and Mentor August 2012 - Where do all these wires go??? Electronics work! We're almost there - 90% done.... and 90% yet to go Wings on - starting to look like a real airplane A Big Day! Inspection and Certificate of Airworthiness from the FAA. January 23, 2013 A Bigger Day! April 3, 2013 - First Flight! A little airplane in a big, big sky What a day! The famous "Van's Grin" Two months of flight testing First Climb to 10,000 ft. Testing, testing... and then, after about 20 hours and two months completion of the testing Dot - my first passenger! Exploring the great Pacific Northwest by air Astoria, Oregon Olympic Mountains Ocean Shores, Washington Waterville, E. Washington Hoquiam, Washington Friday Harbor - San Juan Island, Washington Flying over Mt. Rainier climbing to 16, 214 ft altitude On oxygen at 16,000 ft over Mt. Rainier Frequent trips to Museum of Flight at Boeing Field Hampshire Field at Grant's Pass, Oregon Lunch at Nancy's Airport Cafe in Willows, California Bedded down for the night with a Grumman F3F Sonoma, California Some of my many passengers Dave Waggoner - Paine
Field Airport Manager - Everett, Washington
Jon Proctor - Aviation
Author - Sandpoint, Idaho
Dan Dornseif - Southwest Airlines 737 Captain Jim Brown - Retired Boeing colleague Peter Morton Jack Wimpress My Eastern Bro Kevin Lacey from near Syracuse, New York Visiting Ron Ochs on his farm near Madras, Eastern Oregon Cascade Mountains Starting to support my Museum work - Boeing 727 Prototype Medford, Oregon Mount Shasta, California Lockheed Super G Constellation Boeing B-29 Working on American Airlines Boeing 727-200 My airplane is truly unique - hanging out with the Big Airplanes See what I mean! My (late) good friend Joe Blank from Vans Aircraft said..... "she looks like she's nursing from Mom!" Boeing B-17 10 years later - the Boeing B-47 Lockheed C-130 Hercules Seattle Seahawks Stadium Grain elevators - Brewster, Eastern Washington Boeing Flight Line - KC-46 Tankers Seattle Mariners baseball game at Safeco Field Olympic Mountains from Tony T.'s airplane Lake Washington Ship Canal Air Force One and 727 Prototype Hope, British Columbia Arctic oil drilling platform Point Roberts, Washington From the Boeing 727 Prototype - N7001U - before Last Flight Landing, Pt. Townsend, Washington Landing, Boeing Field, Seattle The Big Time! Landing Runway 16R at Sea-Tac - Seattle Tacoma International Airport Harbor Island, Seattle Seattle Fraser River, east of Vancouver, B.C. Langley, Whidbey Island, Washington Boeing 787 Dreamliner Boeing Field - my RV-12 is my volunteer work taxi Paine Field, Everett With Big Sisters at Paine Field - Everett Forest fire near Roseburg, Oregon Pacific near Tattoosh, Washington along the Washington Coast Dot's Birthday - lunch at Roche Harbor on San Juan Island 20 minutes vs 2 days and 4 ferry rides! Cruise ship .... heading for Alaska Douglas DC-2 Darrington, Washington Paine Field, Everett Concorde Photographing my friend Mort in his Cub ....and my pal and mentor Tony T. in his RV-12 From the pilot's seat of N7001U - the Boeing 727 Prototype Two of my loves Dancing with clouds Seeing the world as only God...... and pilots can Outside her hangar - Port Townsend, Washington Saddle Mountains - Eastern Washington Departing Eastsound on Orcas Island Mt. Rainier and Seattle poking through the morning fog Taxiing in at the Museum - I've now been targeted by the Plane Spotters! Wore out a set of tires - new tire installed on the right Mt. Hood - east of Portland, Oregon Mothball aircraft carriers - Bremerton Naval Shipyard Space Needle and Lake Union Wow! Never get tired of seeing the Cascades. Short final for Runway 27 at Pt. Townsend Visiting one of my Ladies - the 727 Prototype before her Final Flight My home base - Port Townsend, Washington Getting used to looking down on other airplanes Here - an Alaska Airlines 737 departing Sea-Tac and..... another one! An Air Force C-130 climbing out of McChord AFB An EA-18G Growler above near Whidbey Island NAS and another one below! Following a Boeing 737 into Boeing Field Friends Fred McCarthy and Peter Morton on Whidbey Island And Dot - my constant Co-pilot - at Anacortes Heading out for a new adventure.... Looking down on home - Hansville - after a long day working on the 727. 20 minutes of beauty vs 3 hours fighting traffic on the ferry. Much have I traveled in the Realms of Gold A lot of adventures - and these are just a few - a very few...... Airplanes are.... magical.... which is why I love them - so. "I'm on the top of the World, looking down on Creation...." |
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