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Post by Piston Paul on Jan 18, 2010 6:57:42 GMT -5
Welknown actor, (707) pilot and aviation enthusiast, John Travolta read about our Connie-ferry, and insisted that we dropped in on his private airfield, Greystone, Fla (17FL) for a party at his estate on the airfield.
Who are we to refuse?  take-off Panama City, FLORIDA in the morning.  Crossing the eastern-Florida coast near Foley.  Lots of small airstrips here, but no trouble in finding Greystone.  On finals.  touch down...nose to go. Mister Travolta's estate in the background.  Taxi-in on the private 'drive way'.  No room to manouvre...throught the grass. Who cares?  Helicopter view of our place for the night. Not bad uh? John Travolta's Gulfstream landed later that afternoon with some more famous guests  8-)for the pool side BBQ & party. (Ever met Angelina Jolie? Well, I just did!!  ) 
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Post by coenraad on Jan 18, 2010 7:16:10 GMT -5
Haha, nice pictures and story man. Was really fun to read/see.
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Post by jesse on Jan 18, 2010 9:16:14 GMT -5
Nice, Paul. Where did you find the scenery with JT's house and strip?
Jesse
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Post by okami on Jan 18, 2010 10:37:05 GMT -5
Hi Jesse, I just checked, and they're two packages, available from Flightsim.com: respectively dbwgrs05.zip for the 17FL Jumbolair scenery, and jt_fleetpack_fltsim.zip for John Travolta's private fleet.  |
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Post by jesse on Jan 18, 2010 10:46:10 GMT -5
Thanks, Okami. I think I'll got to flt sim.com and check it out. I've seen the place in the real world and the file is very close.
Jesse
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Post by guestairways on Jan 18, 2010 14:08:07 GMT -5
haha really funny ;D
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Post by okami on Jan 18, 2010 16:23:33 GMT -5
... Is there anywhere you haven't been, Jesse? ;D
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Post by simkarus on Jan 19, 2010 2:28:43 GMT -5
Oh yes Nikko, there are. I've never seen Jesse e.g. at DUS airport. ;D ;D ;D
Hans
@ Piston Paul: Very nice pictures.
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Post by Werner on Jan 19, 2010 4:12:53 GMT -5
Hi Paul, great pictures and a famous idea. Werner
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Post by emfrat on Jan 19, 2010 4:58:48 GMT -5
Now that is style - a porte-cochère for your private B707. Pools are nuffin' - there are thousands to be seen, on approach to YSSY from the West. Great photoshoot, Paul MikeW |
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Post by jesse on Jan 19, 2010 12:16:04 GMT -5
... Is there anywhere you haven't been, Jesse? ;D There are a few places I have missed. A good friend of mine who was a test pilot for Glen L. Martin on the 202 and 404 aircraft retired from Baltimore and moved down to Largo, FL. On my drive down to Miami to catch the cruise ship to the Panama Canal, I stopped by for a visit and Jack said he wanted to show me something. We drove to John Travolta's strip and It was fantastic. During 21 years in the Military and another 20 with NASA, I did get to see quite a bit of this old planet. Jesse |
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Post by jesse on Jan 19, 2010 12:19:37 GMT -5
Oh yes Nikko, there are. I've never seen Jesse e.g. at DUS airport. ;D ;D ;D Hans @ Piston Paul: Very nice pictures. Hi, Hans. The DUS threw me for a loss. I don't recognize it unless you are referring to Dusseldorf. If so, you missed me when I was there. In the 60s I spent four great years in Germany working for ITT installing over-the-horizon Tropscatter equipment. I had 62 sites in Germany alone. I was all over Europe and the Med as far as Cyprus and Crete. ;D |
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Post by connie1649 on Jan 20, 2010 14:40:19 GMT -5
Love that shot coming in over the trees.
And Travolta's place looks just like that from the air.
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Post by okami on Feb 3, 2010 18:53:06 GMT -5
Oh yes Nikko, there are. I've never seen Jesse e.g. at DUS airport. ;D ;D ;D Hans @ Piston Paul: Very nice pictures. Hi, Hans. The DUS threw me for a loss. I don't recognize it unless you are referring to Dusseldorf. If so, you missed me when I was there. In the 60s I spent four great years in Germany working for ITT installing over-the-horizon Tropscatter equipment. I had 62 sites in Germany alone. I was all over Europe and the Med as far as Cyprus and Crete. ;D Sorry for bumping this thread, but I was intrigued by the ITT mention, Jesse - my grandfather worked for Bell-ITT at the time in Antwerp. His work there nearly earned him a spot on an Antarctic expedition - something he declined because of his family. I don't suppose your ITT-work ever brought you in Antwerp, though, right...? |
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Post by jesse on Feb 3, 2010 19:27:25 GMT -5
Quite to the contrary. My last installation in France was at Maison Fort near Orleans. At this time, General deGaulle decided to pull France out of the NATO military alliance so I received instructions from Frankfurt to remove all of the troposcatter equipment to include the electronics, the shelters, the 250 f towers and the 30 ft dia dishes. All we left were the concrete hard stands. All the equipment was placed in truck operated by the famous Red Ball Express (military) and shipped back to the supply depot at Kaiserslautern in Germany. We moved all of our equipment out of the five French sites and moved NATO Hq to Flobeck in Belgium. I went back to Germany, but made several business trips to Flobeck. I really enjoyed the area. My wife flew into Luxembourg on Icelandic Air Loft Leider and we toured the whole Benelux countryside in my little blue beetle.
Jesse
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