I rent a Cessna 172 out of KBHB. I really wish I could win the lottery, they have a Cirrus SR22 fully equipped for $200 an hour there. Got a chance to fly it for a half hour and it was like flying the Avatar shuttle. Amazing technology, great to fly.
We have a long, thin 80 acres, (650 feet by 1.2 miles) with our own 4,700 by 90 foot grass strip here at the house. It is 16 miles from 2E5 by air, and 26 miles by road. We like to climb into either My Taylorcraft, or Ateyo's Cessna 140, and go fly to Dell city for Breakfast. I have a "T" hanger at T-27 where we fly into several times a month to do our "Big Shopping". We park the plane in it's hanger, grab the Crew Car, shop, come back, load up the plane, and fly home. The hanger at T-27 costs us 135 dollars a month, with the electricity included.
We play one lotto ticket a week, we feel that if we are meant to win it, that's all that we will need. I have this love for old aircraft. If I hit the lotto, Half our net winnings go to the Church, and the other half will go to this Martin 202 that is sitting at an airport in Paris, Texas. The guy who owns it was the stunt double for both John Wayne, in Flying Tigers, and flew Gregory Pack's B-17 in the movie Twelve O'Clock High. The Martin was ferried down to Paris by him in the early eighties, parked, and never flown again, though it's engines are fired up every once in a while. He told me that because if I do hit the lottery, I want to restore it as a 50's era Allegheny Airlines aircraft, and give rides at airshows, he would let me have it for 50,000 dollars. We would pull a ferry permit on it, and take it to Kermit Weeks for a total restoration. (THAT would cost several million). At that time I would go and get my Type Rating in the Martin.
EVERYONE has to have a dream, and that is mine.
Niri Te
