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Trip to Alaska

Postby rbarber » Mon Feb 24, 2014 12:47 am

I see that Kitplanes has posted my Alaska trip article; Http://www.kitplanes.com. I will try to put something together to post here, but I have to be careful not to violate any copyright regs. Enjoy!

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Re: Trip to Alaska

Postby rbarber » Mon Mar 31, 2014 5:51 pm

All interested,

So I received permission from Kitplanes to post this finally. It seems they were only interested in making sure no commercial use of it came to pass.

Anyway, the original manuscript can be found here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/127 ... e-long.pdf

Enjoy!

Rob,

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Re: Trip to Alaska

Postby Rynoth » Mon Mar 31, 2014 6:52 pm

Rob, excellent article, I very much enjoyed reading it! I was born and raised in Anchorage and got my private certificate at Merrill Field before leaving Alaska for college/career. Great photos, very inspiring to me as a builder.
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Trip to Alaska

Postby Sonex1517 » Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:16 pm

Fantastic article and an inspiring trip! Thanks for sharing that!!


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Re: Trip to Alaska

Postby mfazio » Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:31 pm

Yes, excellent article and very inspiring!

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Re: Trip to Alaska

Postby fastj22 » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:57 pm

Your perseverance is commendable. I would have just turned back after the canopy episode.

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Re: Trip to Alaska

Postby rbarber » Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:17 pm

Your perseverance is commendable. I would have just turned back after the canopy episode.


Almost did. I felt like walking back...
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Re: Trip to Alaska

Postby vicdelgado9 » Tue Apr 08, 2014 9:03 pm

Excellent article and photos Robert! I pass many hours working on my project thinking about the places I want to go as well when my plane flies. It sure helps to read great stories like yours to motivate me a little bit more to get there.
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Re: Trip to Alaska

Postby nwawingman » Wed Jun 03, 2015 10:37 pm

rbarber wrote:All interested,

So I received permission from Kitplanes to post this finally. It seems they were only interested in making sure no commercial use of it came to pass.

Anyway, the original manuscript can be found here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/127 ... e-long.pdf

Enjoy!

Rob,

N157SX, AKA "Sexy Hexy"



I really enjoy the article about your trip Robert! Very very inspiring! Thanks for sharing this with us.
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Re: Trip to Alaska

Postby kevinh » Tue May 31, 2016 2:54 pm

oooh nice - thanks for sending me here Bryan. Robert, I hope to someday copy some aspect of your great paint scheme ;-)
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