{"id":31633,"date":"2024-06-01T08:52:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=31633"},"modified":"2025-04-27T17:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T23:13:58","slug":"the-no-fly-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2024\/06\/01\/the-no-fly-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"The No-Fly Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes flying on a Saturday is the most fun you can have, and sometimes factors as fickle as the wind and the weather bring that all to a halt.<\/p>\n

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Your host poses with the Douglas A-26 Invader this morning at Ada Regional Airport.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today was one of those Saturdays.<\/p>\n

I was invited by General Aviation Modifications Inc. President and fellow pilot Tim Roehl to be the photographer for a high-visibility demonstration of their newly-certified G100UL<\/a> unleaded aviation gasoline.<\/p>\n

The plan was to fuel up the Douglas A-26 Invader that lives on the field here at Ada Regional Airport, an aircraft I wrote a news story about in January 2022 (link)<\/a>, and fly it in formation with GAMI’s Beech Bonanza A36 with the right side door removed so I could photograph the Invader as it flew from Ada to Chickasha, Oklahoma for an air show.<\/p>\n

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Patchy dense fog rolled into the area just as we got the word that our pilot couldn’t make it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Right around our planned departure time, Tim got a text from the A-26 pilot that he needed to go to Florida unexpectedly, and at that same time, dense fog rolled up all around us.<\/p>\n

We finished the last of the prep work, including fitting the new safety harness on me and testing it, so we will all be ready – hopefully – when the pilot and the weather are good to go.<\/p>\n

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Your host poses in the doorway of our camera ship, a Beech Bonanza A36, with a brand new safety harness. Hopefully we will be able to put this mission together again soon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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