[f-AA] Merry Christmas to you and your family!

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Merry Christmas to you and your family!

 

Ray & Judy Johnson

Marion, Indiana

 

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[Ray Durham]

Thank you!

['Botijo G' via aeronca]

Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad and happy new year!!!

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On Dec 20, 2025, at 12:31 PM, Ray Durham <raydu...@gmail.com> wrote:



[John Rodkey]

And to each of you, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and Happy Hannakuh (recently passed) as well.

This morning, a 1/2 hour flight with two full-stop landings with a friend in crisp winter temperatures (50 degrees in usually balmy So. Cal) was a good post-Christmas celebration.

Yesterday was cloudy and rainy - finishing several days of rain that dropped 6 inches in Goleta - Jeanne and I spent 9 hours packing boxes of over 1000 books to go to the Philippines, where they will no doubt make a very merry belated Christmas to 6 families there.

May God grant you a safe and blessed New Year!

John

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John (poobah) Rodkey - N9361E 11AC at Goleta

[Richard Murray]

Belated Christmas greetings 💐 to everyone. Christmas day found the Champ getting a test flight in 50 degree Ohio weather. Rain Friday kept me grounded and then this morning I started the Champ on the first blade at 39 degrees. I didn't get to fly until this afternoon under 600 OVC skys. 300 AGL patterns hone the skills for the unexpected engine issue.

[Mark Peterson]

Happy New year ahead for us all on this merry group. . .may the Aeronca flights to come be safe, happy and filled with perfect landings!

It's been a good ride for many years and everyone is appreciated with best wishes!

Mark Peterson

Seattle

[John Rodkey]

Happy New Year, all! May your days be filled with meaningful relationships, good health, and safe and joy-filled flights. May you have tailwinds each way, whisper-smooth kissing of the tires to the pavement (grass, if you're lucky), and may you have many opportunities to pass on your wisdom to the next generation of pilots!

Happy New Year. 

I'm hoping to fly more than this last year: I only managed to be in the air 27 hours in 2025 (28, if I manage to sneak in a flight before the end of the year.)

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John (poobah) Rodkey - N9361E 11AC at Goleta

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['Botijo G' via aeronca]

Happy new year! Hopping to have a first flight in my ‘38 after 25 years of being put back together

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On Dec 29, 2025, at 1:28 PM, John Rodkey <pooba...@gmail.com> wrote:



[Richard Murray]

Happy New Year everyone. John inspired me a decade or so back to detail my flight time over the last year. 74.2 hours as of Saturday with 247 landings.

Richard in OH remembering when everyone would follow John's lead disseminating their times and praying a '39 can still fly after setting 25 years.

['Botijo G' via aeronca]

Ha ha well the closer I get (7 pieces short….the cowlings) the least prayers it needs until it’s ready to fly and then I will need even more 

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On Dec 29, 2025, at 2:25 PM, Richard Murray <murra...@gmail.com> wrote:



[Richard Murray]

Well amigo you've got a  big cheer squad supporting you. If you're apprehensive about the first flight let me know and I'll take it around patch. Those first flights really raise the stress level especially when a gauge fails. You just fly the wing.

['Botijo G' via aeronca]

Thanks Richard but I’m all the way in CA! When I did test flow the Groooooooman after bringing it back from beyond the dead I spend close to 2 hours making traffics at 2000 feet, all right turns doing the Lycoming breaking process. Haven’t flown a Grumman in 20 years and after 2 hours of right turns the tower wanted me to turn left! Mentally I was not ready for a left turn and for that matter I didn’t know if the plane would turn left but it did! Yeah it was stressful and looking for the runway at all times.

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On Dec 29, 2025, at 4:03 PM, Richard Murray <murra...@gmail.com> wrote:



[Richard Murray]

You know what I'm talking about. I've been fortunate to have worked off of uncontrolled fields. 

Lost an airspeed indicator once in a Cessna 140 after the owner had recovered the wings and missed a hose.

Lost the manifold pressure gauge in a Brantly and got it back on the ground.

['Botijo G' via aeronca]

Never a dull moment of those first flights!

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On Dec 29, 2025, at 4:25 PM, Richard Murray <murra...@gmail.com> wrote: