Herb won another award
 

Congrats to Herb are in order again. His plane won another award. This time it was at sun n fun.

Guess all that hard work, tireless effort, and money invested has all come back in spades.

Well done !

-Robert Morris
rmorris@agsi.us
________
HONDA VTX1800F

Congratulations Herb!

Dave

Congratulations
 

Congratulations

Award
 

Do you know what the award is for??

Herb
 

i just heard from Herb. He won best twin at Sun 'N Fun.

I guess that would pretty much do it.

award
 

here's a picture
i'm sure Herb will post more when he returns to civilization, and his feet actually touch the ground. :D:D

Great Job :)

Ya done it again! Congratulations!

Congrats!
 

Herb~ Congrats!


I was only able to make it on thrusday afternoon, and was able to meet one gentlemen whos name I dont remember, and got to see Herb's STUNNING skymaster... took a couple pics of it and wanted to share... The nite airshow was amazing, and again, congrats on your award and beautiful bird Herb! When i made it over to your airplane, you werent around... so i took my pics and went to the bar~ Congrats!

Blues

Scotty Burns

To see the rest of what I shot in the brief time I was there, you can see them at:

www.scottyburns.smugmug.com

look in the aviation folder..

just a couple more pics i know youll like~
 

Enjoy~ Ill fly in next year~

I finally made it home today. It was a great show and fun time.

Thank you to everyone for the posts. It's just truly an honor to have such a great airplane. I dedicate this whole program to my dad. He is my real inspiration.

Many thanks to all that helped in the huge project of restoring this wonderful Skymaster:

Larry Bowdish
Craig Griswold
Bill McFadden
Danny King
Jerry DeSantis
Doug Wyn
My Wife and kids
and all you who helped in many ways through this site.

Now let's see, Arlington Airshow and then Copperstate. Ok, look out more to come.

Nice pics Scotty

Glad you made it home safely Herb. I hope that when the Chicago Center controller asked if you were on board by name, did not cause you any undue concerns. It was just a "funny" sequence of events.

I was looking at the photos of your plane that Scotty had posted just a few hours before I went to work today. Then shortly after I sat down at the radar scope, I heard the controller next to me who was working the airspace over the PMM VOR respond to "Skymaster N712JF." After I heard that, I was thinking, why does that call sign sound so familiar? I could not recall if that was your call sign or not so I asked Mark (the controller working you) to ask you if that was in fact you. I figured you would not recognize my name as we have never met but thought possibly it would ring a bell if he mentioned this website.

Anyway, congrats on your awards and maybe one of these days I will make it over to 08C with my plane and we could meet. Take care....

Ed Asmus

Ed

That was really cool when the center controller asked me that. It caught me by surprise at first and then I figured out that he said "Ed Amus" and I knew who it was. Thanks for chiming in.

Would love to meet somewhere, I will be at PWK on Wednesday but have to go to some meetings so that may not work. Maybe on a weekend we can get together for breakfast.

Sounds good Herb. I occasionally get a weekend off. Working a rotating schedule has me working all sorts of weird hours. Are you usually hanging out at Riverview on the weekends? I'm based at Aurora (ARR) so we are not too far away.

Want some REAL competition?
 

Herb,

Seems like there is no real competition for your wonderful bird - in the USA!
$180,000 of upgrading later, it would have been interesing to see how my plane would have fared. Unfortunately I just don't have the time to enter into these competitions.

Congratulations!

Jakes

You win the award for spending money in my category. Don't know if there is an award for that or not but WOW, let's see that bad boy! Photos, let us judge the results. How about Arlington, WA, big EAA show out there. What ya say? Meet ya there?

Arlington
 

Looks like July 7-11.

http://www.arlingtonflyin.org/default.cfm

Camping is available.

http://www.arlingtonflyin.org/aircra...nu=flying%20in
Lots of amenities for camping
Grill stations located in aircraft camping areas to cook on.
Free shuttles to local area 8 AM to 8 PM.
Free cell phone charging (bring your charger)
Free Internet café open 6 AM to Midnight.
Ice for sale on site.
Rental cars on site.

Grand Champion Contemporary Class
 

This Comanche 400 won the Big Daddy award for my class. As you can see from the photos it is a work of art. Really nice owner and I had the pleasure to share restoration stories with him. I have not seen someone go to these lengths before. Reminds me of the roadster car shows.

Cruise speeds with this single engine IO-720 Lycoming are in the 200 kt range burning 20 gals per hour. Not bad for a single. Not many of these around but this has to be the best.

Cylinders
 

I told you that we needed to shine up your engine. Imagine what it would have looked like with Chrome valve covers, shiny intakes. Put those chrome exhaust extensions on, like you can find at Pep Boys.

Chroming up the landing gear legs would make it a grand champion. It might be a bit tricky to get the nose gear chromed up, and you need to get chrome hub caps too. Oh, and what about the inside of the gear doors?? Especially the nose gear.

I can see what we are doing this winter. Yup. MR CHROME, here we come.

The gear on the Comanche is actually polished, not chrome. But chrome would still look really nice.

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