Dan Lawler Posted December 23, 2021 Report Posted December 23, 2021 Thanks for adding me to the group. I brought my new (to me) airplane home to KPRC yesterday, and it brought a wave of nostalgia. There are almost 55 years between these two pictures. Both airplanes are nearly identical 1962 "C" model Mooneys. The brown one was the first retractable landing-gear airplane I ever flew. It is still flying, based in Wisconsin. I had many wonderful adventures in that bronze bird when it was nearly new in the late '60s. I have about 100 hours Mooney time, twentyish in a wood-wing M20A and the rest in the M20C, none of it more recent than 40 years ago. A friend and I used to shut down the wood-wing and we could ridge-soar it, prop stopped, in the orographic lift from the Estrella mountain ridge SW of Phoenix. I bought this blue Mooney from a friend. I can tell I'm going to have a fun time with my new bird. It's old now, but so am I! 22 Quote
LANCECASPER Posted December 23, 2021 Report Posted December 23, 2021 3 hours ago, Dan Lawler said: That's not fair. you have more hair now than you had 54 years ago 1 Quote
aviatoreb Posted December 24, 2021 Report Posted December 24, 2021 Hey - just like me! I am 54...almost 55. Quote
EagleDriver Posted December 24, 2021 Report Posted December 24, 2021 That’s really cool - congrats on being reunited, even if by (very) reasonable facsimile. Quote
Boilermonkey Posted December 24, 2021 Report Posted December 24, 2021 That's very cool. I wish I had a side by side like that. Frame it!!! Quote
Oscar Avalle Posted December 24, 2021 Report Posted December 24, 2021 Awesome!!! Congratulations. Really nice birdSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Quote
amillet Posted December 24, 2021 Report Posted December 24, 2021 Welcome back into the Mooney fold. My father was born in Chino Valley in 1923. Quote
cliffy Posted December 25, 2021 Report Posted December 25, 2021 Congrats Come on up the KSGU (St George, UT) lunch is on me OR 1st Saturday of every month there is a hangar breakfast on the west side of the airport in the most northerly/west hangar starting about 8AM. Sometimes we see 20-25 pilots there. Quote
carusoam Posted December 26, 2021 Report Posted December 26, 2021 Great pics Dan! here’s to another 50 years! Oldest Mooney pilot to fly solo in his Mooney was 100 years old this year…. -a- 1 Quote
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