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| Ready to depart: Bonanza N4759M, "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of all who threaten it, Navy", 08/23/20 | 10,500 MSL... Autopilot is working correctly. Note AP coupled/approach, 08/16/20 | Smoke and haze all over the west, 08/16/20 | Still having fun, 08/16/20 | Green where they irrigate, 08/16/20 | ||
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| Big Bear Lake distant, looking southwest, 08/16/20 | Big Bear Lake, looking south, 08/16/20 | Fuel stop at Gooding (KGNG) Airport, Idaho, note prices, 08/16/20 | Helicopter at KGNG with water bucket for fire fighting, 08/16/20 | Jer/ in the Bonanza after fueling at KGNG, 08/16/20 | ||
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| Lake Owyhee, Oregon, just west of Boise, ID, 08/16/20 | Still smoky in Oregon, west of Boise, ID, 08/16/20 | Autopilot is tracking and doing great, 08/16/20 | 10,500 MSL, 158Kn ground speed, 11.8 GPH, 08/16/20 | Approaching Bend, OR, looking W, 08/16/20 | ||
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| Trees and development east of Bend airport, 1, 08/16/20 | Trees and development east of Bend airport, 2, 08/16/20 | The open spot is Bend airport, 08/16/20 | N4759M on the ground, Bend (KBDN) Airport, Oregon, 1, 08/16/20 | N4759M on the ground, Bend (KBDN) Airport, Oregon, 2, 08/16/20 | ||
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| Jer/ holding first grandchild Reina Bay Edmundson, 1, 08/16/20 | Jer/ holding first grandchild Reina Bay Edmundson, 2, 08/16/20 | Grandpa Jer/ with flying baby Reina!!!, 08/16/20 | Great landing, happy baby Reina, 1, 08/16/20 | Great landing, happy baby Reina, 2, 08/16/20 | ||
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| Moriah, Reina and Grandpa Jer/, 08/16/20 | Reina's first space shuttle, 08/16/20 | Ally, Reina, Moriah and Micah, 08/16/20 | Ally, Moriah, Micah and Reina, 1, 08/16/20 | Ally, Moriah, Micah and Reina, 2, 08/16/20 | ||
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| Moriah feeding the goats, 08/16/20 | Alpacas on morning walk, 08/17/20 | Jer/, leading the mama goat while Reina supervises, 1, 08/18/20 | Jer/, leading the mama goat while Reina supervises, 2, 08/18/20 | Reina watching the ducks, 1, 08/18/20 | ||
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| Reina watching the ducks, 2, 08/18/20 | Family dance after Reina bath, 08/18/20 | Moriah and Reina play time, 08/19/20 | Moriah, Reina, Mark, dog Arya, neighbor Mandy with her 1 yr old baby, 08/19/20 | Took the family flying. Bend, OR Airport, looking NW, 08/19/20 | ||
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| Ally and Micah in the Bonanza, 08/19/20 | Ally's school where she teaches art, 08/19/20 | Ally and Micah's house just below picture center, 08/19/20 | Ally and Micah's house just off the wingtip, left of the rectangular green field, 08/19/20 | Micah and Jer/ in the Bonanza, 08/19/20 | ||
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| Mark watching Reina and Grandpa Jer/ in the Bonanza, maybe a ride next time Reina!, 08/19/20 | Ally and neighbor Mandy's baby, Moriah in the window and Mandy in the front right seat, 1, 08/19/20 | Ally and neighbor Mandy's baby, Moriah in the window and Mandy in the front right seat, 2, 08/19/20 | Jer/ with Bonanza N4759M at KBDN, 08/19/20 | Micah with Bonanza N4759M at KBDN, 08/19/20 | ||
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| Alpacas on morning walk, 1, 08/20/20 | Alpacas on morning walk, 2, 08/20/20 | Dinner with neighbors. Riot was here at Monkless the previous night, 08/20/20 | Monkless dinner outside, 08/20/20 | Monkless patio looking S to the river, 08/19/20 | ||
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| Enroute Bend to Sandpoint, circle pivots SW of Spokane, WA, 08/21/20 | Ground speed 197kn, 08/21/20 | AP coupled in NAV tracking mode, still working correctly, 08/21/20 | Looking NNW across Spokane, WA, 08/21/20 | Columbia River, looking NW, near Spokane, WA, 08/21/20 | ||
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| Sandpoint (KSZT) Airport, ID, is just over the ridge, 08/21/20 | First view of Sandpoint (KSZT) Airport, ID, and Pend Oreille River, 08/21/20 | Bonanza N4759M at Sandpoint (KSZT), ID, 08/21/20 | Bonanza N4759M at Sandpoint (KSZT), ID, Ed and Ali Lawrence's van, 08/21/20 | Sandpoint City Beach from the Restaurant, 1, 08/21/20 | ||
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| Sandpoint City Beach from the Restaurant, 2, 08/21/20 | City Beach, Sandpoint, ID, note Chinese Junk (boat), 1, 08/21/20 | City Beach, Sandpoint, ID, note Chinese Junk (boat), 2, 08/21/20 | City Beach, Sandpoint, ID, note Chinese Junk (boat), 3, 08/21/20 | Ed demonstrated that his watch sets itself from WWV Fort Collins, Colorado NBS time station, 08/16/20 | ||
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| Sandpoint Statue of Liberty at Lake Pend Oreille, the 38th-largest lake in the USA, 08/21/20 | Wintery day at Sandpoint Train Station, 08/21/20 | East entrance at Ed & Ali Lawrence's home, Oldtown/Sandpoint, ID, 08/16/20 | Ed Lawrence's shop, 08/21/20 | Pend Oreille River NW of Lawrence's, 08/21/20 | ||
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| Looking NE across Lawrence's house, 1, 08/22/20 | Looking NE across Lawrence's house, 2, 08/22/20 | Year old white flowering plant, 08/22/20 | At Lawrence's, looking NE to the Pend Oreille River, 08/22/20 | We drove to Coeur d'Alene (KCOE) Airport to see the Bird Museum, 08/22/20 | ||
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| Museum sign on garage doors, entrance is to the right. 08/22/20 | Flightline entrance to Bird Museum at KCOE, 08/22/20 | KCOE self service fuel is near the Bird Museum, 08/22/20 | Ali helping Ed with his wheel chair, 08/22/20 | Ed on his wheel chair and ready to roll, 08/22/20 | ||
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| "Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center" is the correct name, 08/22/20 | Entrance to Bird Museum hangar, 08/22/20 | Entrance shelter at the Bird Museum, 08/22/20 | Interesting home/office/hangar combination, 08/22/20 | Curious sign... "SkiGull Parking Only", 08/22/20 | ||
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| Yup, Burt Rutan's hangar at KCOE is next to the Bird Museum, 08/22/20 | Coeur d'Alene (KCOE) Airport, ID, Terminal Building, 08/22/20 | "Unattended children will be given an espresso and a free puppy", sign at the Bird Museum entrance desk, 08/22/20 | "If it has tires or testicles, there;s going to be trouble.", 08/22/20 | Inside, looking south toward the entrance door of the Bird Museum, 08/22/20 | ||
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| Staggerwing Beech Aircraft, F-17-D, 1, 08/22/20 | Staggerwing Beech Aircraft, F-17-D, 2, 08/22/20 | "Pam and Forrest Bird" on the Staggerwing, 1, 08/22/20 | "Pam and Forrest Bird" on the Staggerwing, 2, 08/22/20 | WWII display, note pedal car, 08/22/20 | ||
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| Matchbook collection, 08/22/20 | Bob Hope: "Have Tux, Will Travel", 08/22/20 | C-123. Our Docent Col "Buck" Bender donated his memorabilia, 08/22/20 | Our Docent Col "Buck" Bender's citations, 08/22/20 | WWII Women Service Pilots (WASP) display, 08/22/20 | ||
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| WWII women pilot's uniforms and suitcases, 08/22/20 | WWII women's stories and other memorabilia, 08/22/20 | "Chicks Fly" hat, 08/22/20 | 1936 Piper J-2 Cub, 08/22/20 | Ed explaining the J-2 Cub to Ali, 08/22/20 | ||
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| Piper J-2 Cub in the foreground, SGS-2-33 sailplane behind, hanging from the ceiling, 08/22/20 | Republic RC-3 Seabee seaplane, SGS-2-33 training glider (sailplane) overhead, 08/22/20 | Republic RC-3 Seabee seaplane, with a Piper Cub fuselage frame in the foreground, 08/22/20 | "Home is where your story begins", 08/22/20 | USA Space display, 08/22/20 | ||
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| Kid interactive display denied operation for COVID-STUPID, 08/22/20 | Waco 1927 GXE, 1, 08/22/20 | Waco 1927 GXE, 2, 08/22/20 | Dr. Forrest Bird's Polio Lung Machine, 08/22/20 | Dr. Forrest Bird's inventions, 1, 08/22/20 | ||
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| Dr. Forrest Bird's inventions, 2, 08/22/20 | Dr. Forrest Bird's inventions, 3, 08/22/20 | Dr. Forrest Bird's inventions, 4, 08/22/20 | Dr. Forrest Bird's inventions, original baby respirator, 08/22/20 | In the Invention Center room, Apple signed by Woz! 08/22/20 | ||
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| Dr. Pamela Bird's inventions. Well behaved women..., 1, 08/22/20 | Well behaved women..., 2, 08/22/20 | Dr. Pamela Bird, 08/22/20 | Don't ever let... girl, "Chemistry is everywhere", 1, 08/22/20 | Don't ever let... girl, "Chemistry is everywhere", 2, 08/22/20 | ||
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| Picture gallery, 08/22/20 | Dr. Forrest Bird and WWII buddies, 08/22/20 | Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Young Eagles, 08/22/20 | Capt Eddie Rickenbacker, autographed picture, 08/22/20 | General Chuck Yeager, autographed picture, 08/22/20 | ||
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| Amelia Earhart, storyboard, 08/22/20 | Amelia Earhart, autographed picture, 08/22/20 | 1927 Model T Ford, 1, 08/22/20 | 1927 Model T Ford, 2, 08/22/20 | Dr. Forrest Bird, 08/22/20 | ||
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| Sandpoint Airport sign, 1, 08/23/20 | Sandpoint Airport sign, 2, 08/23/20 | Sandpoint Fuel sign: "Keep Calm and Love Aviation", 08/23/20 | KSZT ramp. looking SW from the FBO, 08/23/20 | KSZT ramp sign... "The Sky Is Home", 1, 08/23/20 | ||
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| KSZT ramp sign... "The Sky Is Home", 2, 08/23/20 | Caravan taxiing for departure at Sandpoint, 08/23/20 | Departed Sandpoint for Thermopolis and home. Green forest off Sandpoint, 1, 08/23/20 | Green forest off Sandpoint, 2, 08/23/20 | Lake Pend Oreille, looking NW to Sandpoint, 08/23/20 | ||
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| Lake Pend Oreille, looking SE from Sandpoint, 08/23/20 | Autopilot still coupled and working great, 9,500 MSL, 08/23/20 | 172Kn ground speed, 08/23/20 | Getting smoky, 08/23/20 | Jer/ having a blast flying the Bonanza, 1, 08/23/20 | ||
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| Jer/ having a blast flying the Bonanza, 2, 08/23/20 | Still smoky. There is an airport about mid picture, 08/23/20 | Bonanza N4759M on the ground at Thermopolis (KHSG), WY, 1, 08/23/20 | Bonanza N4759M on the ground at Thermopolis (KHSG), WY, 2, 08/23/20 | Bonanza N4759M on the ground at Thermopolis (KHSG), WY, 3, 08/23/20 | ||
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| Bonanza N4759M on the ground at Thermopolis (KHSG), WY, note ramp neighbor, 4, 08/23/20 | The FBO at Thermopolis (KHSG), WY, is Owl Creek Aviation, 307 921-8579, 08/22320 | Entrance sign to Thermopolis, WY Hot Springs State Park, 08/23/20 | Star Plunge, hot mineral pools, 08/23/20 | Star Plunge and picnic shelter from State Bath House, 08/23/20 | ||
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| State Bath House... thru courtesy car window cracks, 08/23/20 | State Bath House, COVID-19 hours. I was just a little bit late. 08/23/20 | State Bath House, COVID-19 limits, 08/23/20 | State Bath House, thru the windows, 08/23/20 | Hellie's Tepee Pool, 08/23/20 | ||
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| Waterslide at Hellie's Tepee Pool, 08/23/20 | Famous Calcium Carbonate Travertine Mound, 1, 08/23/20 | Best Western, across from the Safari Club Restaurant, 08/23/20 | Days Inn and the Safari Club Restaurant, 08/23/20 | Days Inn, attached to the Safari Club Restaurant, 08/23/20 | ||
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| Wyoming Pioneer Home, Assisted Living, 08/23/20 | Thermopolis Safari Club Restaurant, 08/23/20 | Cruising 9,500 MSL, off Thermopolis, 08/23/20 | Smoky SE of Thermopolis, 08/23/20 | N4759M Home again, "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of all who threaten it, Navy", 08/23/20 | ||