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I keep having strange dreams. In this one somebody had been tampering with the brakes on my airplane. I quickly did a field repair while speaking in a Germanic dialect that had died out centuries ago. The dream seemed so real that I wasn't sure if it happened or not b/c i woke up in the pasture next to my plane holding the same gun that was in my dream.
Dream-time ends with the sounds of John Graham on my cell phone telling me it's time to fly. We rallied the flying troupe back together. First stop was Graham's front yard now named "Twisted Cow" for the crippled pet beef cow that they keep on a healthy diet of corn because they love her so much.
Graham and I fly on with the Chief of Comentary, Bushy, in Graham's back seat. We then meet up with Bill Tracy and Don Emslie.
Emslie was previously seen in the clip called "Progressive Party". He's the owner of "Roswell". He's one of those guys whose life story can't be told until he's passed on to the next life b/c he would be stripped of all his metals, credentials and belongings and quite frankly we need him and his belongings around. That doesn't stop me from asking him a couple incriminating personal questions every now and then.
Emslie and Graham were Ohio Bush Pilots before i could fold a paper airplane.
Speaking of little flying things, we land at a model field en route to our next hillside landing and Bill whips out a remote control helicopter. Instant aviation entertainment.
We continue on to "The Wart" It's a part of Don's Aviation Paradisio (tm). He made like Graham and invented a few landing strips for us, with the belief that if you drag a mower across it, it's an airport. He even put parking zones atop the hills. The Wart is a pretty long grass strip with a knob 2/3rds the length of it. From the side the strip looks like it has a wart. "Everything Bagel, which is right next door has little tree stumps, erosion lines, bumps, and even sea salt. A tasty little landing strip that is steeper than "The Wart" and on a slight sideways grade too.
Don stops on the Wart and taxi's backwards about 5 feet, but of course I came up short with the video.
Then I threw in some gravel bar footage that seemed also like a dream, but I'm pretty sure it was real. No comment there.

Thanks for tuning in.
  • Zane Jacobson 2 years ago
    I rarely have the patience to watch flying videos without scrubbing through them a little, but I was glued to that one. Nice work, Greg! That outtro was great.
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  • Chad Wirsig 2 years ago
    Your videos are better than Anything on TV! Thanks for posting 'em.
  • Greg Swingle plus 2 years ago
    Yall are too kind. Thanks. I'm a video scrubber too Zane!
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  • Lynn Gardner 2 years ago
    Did you fly this weekend? I saw the rain was mighty. Still pissed I couldn't come up.
  • Greg Swingle plus 2 years ago
    We flew but it was nothing worth traveling from Florida to participate in. We've had really strong winds ever since.
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  • Benjamin Watkins plus 2 years ago
    I agree on the outro. Super cool. You need to do more stuff like that. I loved the soundtrack on this one. You guys in that crick / sand bar - insane! Makes me want to have a plane.
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