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This is a very special little airfield. Lots of taildraggers, antiques,
biplanes, etc, make this field well worth a visit if you're an oldtimer at
heart, like me. Plus, Bob's cafe makes a great breakfast or lunch, and
features its' 'World Famous Chili`, which I tasted and must agree that it
is world class.
This airfield is so much like the airfields I remembered as a boy where
my father I and hung out and on Saturday mornings with all the other
aviation enthusiasts - the camraderie and fellowship of other of men and
occasional women, who especially love early aviation, and the smell of
butyrate dope and avgas. There's a long bench in the shade next to the gas
pumps where mostly men in their 60's and 70's sit and talk airplanes where
they can see the comings and goings of aircraft from the active runway
25/07. I sat down and chatted with these men for awhile, wishing I could
have spent many hours there. I had a special feeling about these men from
a mostly bygone golden era of aviation, and a sad feeling as I watch that
era slip away into the past.
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