Recent content by Jonathan Baron

Gentlemen: As expected, the insurance company totaled my Cruisemaster. What I didn't expect was the absurdly high price they're asking for the salvage: $13,485.00. How they came up with that number is anyone's guess but it's simply too much money for me to buy and pay to have fixed properly...

Damn...the silence is deep. Monty...what are you doing? Randy...I am asking the same. Lynn I am sure is pissed off at something. Why don't you "share?" I know what Peter is doing. Smiling. That's what he does best...when he's not doing things that are just a wee bit more important than that...

I’ve not posted about Columbia, and some of you on this merry forum know why. How does one describe the grand endeavor that ends…poorly? Well…begin with the adventure. My ‘Master became our Club’s Air Force One on the Sunday before the event as I flew from Orange, Virginia to Wayne Delp...

My 14-19 is undergoing an annual at the moment. The folks doing it are smart, have worked on my airplane very competently, and can probably figure out what to do based on the logs of previous annuals. Still, I could *swear* I saw a checklist posted here awhile back but, despite some hunting and...

Apart from laying in stores of Night Train (time to economize) to endure the holidays this year, here's something that looks interesting.... http://www.theonion.com/content/news/blue_angels_hold_first_ever_open Jonathan

Brethren: Okay, I know just how important this forum is for getting info and help to get or keep your Triple Tails in the air. Occasionally, though, it's useful to wonder why. Now I figure you folks in my previous haunts are getting weathered in for the year. Out here in Virginia, though...

Okay, I know this is anything but Bellanca related, but I got bored this evening and came across this. No matter what you fly, people love P-51s. I first came across this a few years back. Lee Lauderback - the Stallion 51 guy - and the fellow who made the video flew in formation at Oshkosh, but...

All of you who regularly monitor Barnstormers probably do so, as I do, in place of the news....like the news, it's essentially dignified voyeurism, but Barnstormers features stuff I care about rather than what CNN.com has nowadays. And, like the news, it's filled with hidden drama. Comedy...

Bad news: that fragile back-plate for the spinner on my 14-19 finally decided to crack beyond what stop drilling has so somewhat accomplished over the past half century. Good news: I have been keeping a *new* one for just such an occasion for the past 6 years. I would have kept it in a safety...

Although we all have to endure the vagaries of life, sometimes there is point beyond which you cannot compromise. I'd waited for my 'Master a long time. My particular friend had to put in a lot of work to make it so. Thus, now that it is here, no force in the known universe can keep me from...

Fellow devotees of Giuseppe Mario Bellanca's genius: Promoting the Triple Tail Tour has involved numerous forum topics, a forum poll, postcards sent to all Club members, and promotional bits in the Newsletter. Although interest in the notion is there, reciprocal response beyond words has not...

I saw an ad on Barnstormers yesterday for a Sky Rocket project - a true project, though not as bad as one of those piles of rust they pull out of a swamp somewhere and try to sell as a P40 project. The guy wanted one hundred grand for it - 100 THOUsand bucks. I'm sure it will be snatched up...

I'm looking for a volunteer with some graphics arts skill to design a logo, for patches, caps, and shirts, marking the first Triple Tail Tour. Once I have something suitable, I'll take it from there and create the memorabilia from that. You've got three Ts, three tails, and a distinctive...

Given that most folks' eyes scan past the "stickies" at the top, I just want to point out that the sticky (a topic that that does change position in the list on a forum) at the top is a poll meant to gauge interest in specific prospective Triple Tail Tour destinations this year. I don't expect...

Bellanca Brethren: To gauge interest, and help organize the Triple Tail Tour, please take this poll of events we've proposed and discussed on the forum. Vote for events you are either interested in attending or are planning to attend. I've left out the Columbia and Princeton Bellanca Fly-Ins...