Mighty Favog Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 The company Lorrie's son works for said it was o.k. to take one of the company jets for a spin. Nothing like playing with an $8,000,000 plane !! (avg. $5,400,000 used) 1. Looking over the Ohio River 2. Lorrie and I 3. May Lee (Daughter-in-law) with Case at the controls. 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted May 6, 2022 Author Share Posted May 6, 2022 Stock exterior picture. Seeing it's a private corporate jet, not even the tail number will come up in the registry. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted May 6, 2022 Author Share Posted May 6, 2022 The Cessna Citation Ultra he used to fly looked a lot more sleek but definitely more cramped inside. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OO1 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 looks like it was a lot of fun . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 How nice. So Case is Lorrie's Son-in-law? I wonder what 2 hours rental on a plane like that would be? $10K maybe? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted May 6, 2022 Author Share Posted May 6, 2022 1 hour ago, JL Sargent said: How nice. So Case is Lorrie's Son-in-law? I wonder what 2 hours rental on a plane like that would be? $10K maybe? Case is Lorrie's son (but not my son). May Lee is her daughter-in-law but I call her my daughter-in-law too. In turn she calls me her father-in-law even though Lorrie and I aren't married. But we tell people in public Lorrie and I are (God awful complicated). I asked Case how much my ticket would have been considering there were six passengers on board for time and fuel. For 10-12 minutes, one passenger would have been about $700. The plane was going in for maintenance for 8-weeks about 30-miles away at another airport. So we all tagged along for the drop-off. Case is the captain, the co-pilot is to his right out of camera view. This plane always has to have two people at the controls. A couple of years ago, when Case and May Lee got married, if was his idea to fly the families from southern to northern Arizona (they lived in the south). But even though he was borrowing the Cessna (above) the company he worked for (and made a lot of money for) wouldn't cut him any deals. Including the paying for the co-pilot's hotel bill till they flew back the next day. The whole point was Case wanted to pilot the plane filled with the families to their own wedding. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted May 6, 2022 Author Share Posted May 6, 2022 Last summer Case had a very close call. You guys out west will probably remember this. During his off hours he would fly recon for the wild fires out west. Taking a retired fire chief to assess where the chemical drop tankers should go. So, one day he was scheduled to go up but couldn't because the Cessna was due to come back from maintenance in California to Arizona. And Case was the only one type rated for that plane in the company. So, they sent up someone that could fly the Beechcraft King Air C90 for the recon. One wing of the plane came completely off, crashed, and killed both men. Case said last time he flew that plane the hair of his neck stood up cause things just didn't feel right. Turns out the company that owned the C90 was wayyyyy behind on all their maintenance. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/2021/07/11/jeff-piechura-among-2-killed-plane-crash-near-arizona-wildfire/7930508002/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 "One wing of the plane came completely off, crashed, and killed both men." Wow! Crazy. Talk about timing..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YK Thom Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 I've never flown in this type of aircraft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 You ballooned your carbon footprint. As penalty, you are commanded to spend an hour listening to your honky speakers! Too bad you couldn't have taken all of us for a ride. HEY WAIT....you could have flown a Chesters Pizza down to Knoxville. Pfft.... I'm upset at you now. Make it TWO hours of music. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 On 5/7/2022 at 5:35 PM, YK Thom said: I've never flown in this type of aircraft. Neither have most of us. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted May 12, 2022 Author Share Posted May 12, 2022 On 5/7/2022 at 8:47 PM, Coytee said: HEY WAIT....you could have flown a Chesters Pizza down to Knoxville. Pfft.... I'm upset at you now. Make it TWO hours of music. Just saw this ad on my phone from 1983. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 Mmmm I can smell it by just looking at that.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted May 14, 2022 Author Share Posted May 14, 2022 On 5/12/2022 at 8:02 PM, Coytee said: Mmmm I can smell it by just looking at that.... Do they have eat-in dining? Thinking of a place to take Lorrie for a date-night. It's about 20-minutes from us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 3 hours ago, Mighty Favog said: Do they have eat-in dining? Thinking of a place to take Lorrie for a date-night. It's about 20-minutes from us. Quick answer is no. It's strictly carry out. 20-30 years ago, they DID have a number of sit in locations. I don't know the story but those closed down and they're back to their original location on Route 4. Side comment.... they are right at the intersection of Bobmeyer Road. This is the road down which sits the Greater Hamilton Airport. I suppose by now, it's grown large enough to maybe allow Cessna's to come/go (HA). Back in High School, it essentially closed at night. I'd be out with my girlfriend, go down Bobmeyer to the airport or near it, shut car down and we'd have dinner in the car. A number of years ago (like 20) I met some folks and we went to the lounge AT the airport and had our Pizza. Watched the two planes take off & land.....or was it only one? (small airport) Tis a bummer. Now when I go, I might take it to a friends house who's nearby....but if that doesn't work, I'll just drive down the road and pull into one of the parking lots of the shopping centers and have at it. It will be blistering hot if you get it right out of the oven AND, it will be VERY messy if you use your hands, so if you do that, get a plethora of napkins. (I hate getting my hands all sloppy when I eat that) It might not work out the most romantic for you and Lorrie but you can pretend you're 18 again.... (just remember when you are making goo-goo eyes and she asks why are you making goo-goo eyes at the pizza.... find some way to turn it back to give your attention to her because that next bite WILL be tempting) Another side comment, man, I'm full of them tonight. Think of Thanksgiving dinner..... you eat/gorge yourself until you might say "MAN, if I eat another bite of this or even SEE Turkey for a MONTH, I might throw up" Nothing against the food, but your body is saying ENOUGH. I swear this is true.... Chesters is the only place I know of where I can stuff myself unable to take another bite....and (back when they had the sit-in's) they'd bring out someone elses food and I'd just oogle over it saying OMG, I'd love to eat that.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted May 14, 2022 Author Share Posted May 14, 2022 And to think my favorite place was Uno's but the only one left is in downtown Dayton. Impossible parking on the weekends and too much rush hour traffic during the week. They had one called the SeaDelico that I would KILL for. ....we still make goo-goo eyes at each other. 🤪 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 Just got the price of what this thing costs to charter....$4,500/flight hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the real Duke Spinner Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Schweeei I only get to play with Skylanes and Skyhawks. 😟 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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