Low flying prop plane circling...

[LMSG30]

Does anyone know why there has been a fairly loud prop driven plane circling Salem the last 2 days?
Flying lessons?
Thx.

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[Hop Sing]

Does anyone know why there has been a fairly loud prop driven plane circling Salem the last 2 days?
Flying lessons?
Thx.

How many engines? I think there were gonna be Ford Tri Motor rides this weekend, and those are quite loud.

 

[The Heretic]

Ditto on the Tri-Motor

Also, being the son of a pilot who lived to take people up for joy rides so he had an excuse to fly, pilots often take people up and then circle their houses or other points of interest so they can take pics/etc.

Neighbor did that with Starks Airpark - paid to go up and took pics of his acreage - turned out fairly well, but he could have done the same thing from Google Earth if he had been patient.

 

[Stomper]

How many engines? I think there were gonna be Ford Tri Motor rides this weekend, and those are quite loud.

Yep, couple days ago I saw a loud tri-motor lumbering along from the North... made me think of a Amelia Earhart for some reason.

 

[Camelfilter]

It's just cover for the drones, plus that tri-motor is carrying an NSA pod. Obviously.

We don't have to worry though, got the anti-electronics up & running, and the roof looks just like a yard of fallen leaves.

Downside is how to camo my white truck & camper. I'm thinking "BLM" on the top in big black block letters. Would be good cover irregardless which alphabet agency sees it, and whichever way they dissemble the initials.

 

[LMSG30]

Thanks Hop Sing. It was a fairly large plane and could've been a tri-motor. I only caught glimpses of it thru the trees when it circled.
But just for safety's sake, I covered up the still and and pulled the drapes...

 

[Velzey]

Yep it was the 1928 Ford Tri motor. I was giving rides all day long Friday and Saturday for $75 per head.
A good friend of mine had a great time.

 

[PiratePast40]

I didn't see it from the front, but guessed it was a Ford Tri motor. You can't mistake the sound of those old radials. I had a ride in one about 20 years ago at an airshow in upstate NY. Had a chance to meet Leo Loudenslager at that airshow as well as hang out with the Christen Eagles team.

 

[Stomper]

Yep it was the 1928 Ford Tri motor. I was giving rides all day long Friday and Saturday for $75 per head.
A good friend of mine had a great time.

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Those always remind me of those German Fokker F.VIIb tri-motors...

 

[Certaindeaf]

Was the left turn signal on?

 

[xlsbob]

I'd empty the piggy bank for rides in that

 

[Certaindeaf]

I'd empty the piggy bank for rides in that

I remember my Dad bragging (he never bragged) about flying in them back in the day when they were a going concern.
he musta liked them or something

 

[PiratePast40]

I think they had one running a taxi service to Big Bass Island (Put-In-Bay) in Ohio some years ago.

 

[BanjoGeek]

Those always remind me of those German Fokker F.VIIb tri-motors...

I thought them fokkers flew Messerschmidts?

 

[Stomper]

I thought them fokkers flew Messerschmidts?

Only until they could get back and wash out their shorts!

 

[Capn Jack]

I thought them fokkers flew Messerschmidts?

The last of those Fokker's I saw flying Fokke-Tri-Motor's was the Spanish Air Force in '59
They also had a couple of HE-111's on the base.

 

[orygun]

Yep it was the 1928 Ford Tri motor. I was giving rides all day long Friday and Saturday for $75 per head.
A good friend of mine had a great time.

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Yup! A friend and his wife took a ride out of Aurora last weekend and I saw the plane on one of it's trips when I was at the dragstrip in Woodburn. He mentioned that it would be flying out of Salem this weekend. Wish I'd had the chance to take a ride, too.

 

[Jamie6.5]

Yep it was the 1928 Ford Tri motor. I was giving rides all day long Friday and Saturday for $75 per head.
A good friend of mine had a great time.

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Should have gotten more of that Bronco in that pic!

 

[orygun]

Should have gotten more of that Bronco in that pic!

Bill Stroppe?

 

[Libertas7]

How low?