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!