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To: Robe
A possible business plan might be to tour various airshows hopping rides. I got a ride in a Ford Trimotor (Bushmaster) at the Copperstate airshow a few years ago. Paid 50 bucks, or so for a 10 minute ride. There's another trimotor that must fly 50 sorties full of people at Oshkosh every year.

A good friend of mine is with some WWII re-enactors in Ca. I'm sure they'd love to mess with a 3', but there's probably no real money there.

The movie business is very lucrative, when you can get the work. The guy I worked for at Chino is a regular in that business. He was the aerial coordinator (boss) for the recent "Pearl Harbor" movie. There is a listing of aircraft that is maintained for producers to pick from. Movies might bring in a rare buck, but don't count on it.

The touring idea might work. But you'd have to find people who could handle the airplane on a full time basis all over the country. A couple of retired guys (which I'm not) might be the ticket.

Doing rides is NOT a part 135 operation. It's under part 91, so things like TBO's etc. don't apply. The only exception is drug testing for the pilots under part 135 rules.

18 posted on 07/02/2003 11:37:32 AM PDT by narby (I love the smell of Liberal fear in the morning...)
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To: Robe; narby
See:

http://www.PlanesofFame.org

2-A1E Skyraiders:
"WE WERE SOLDIERS"
"FLIGHT of the INTRUDER"

"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Sgt/Maj BASIL L. PLUMLEY parachuted with the 82nd Airborne into Nazi-Occupied France the night before the Normandy Invasion, possibly off of this very plane..?



Signed:..ALOHA RONNIE Guyer / "WE WERE SOLDIERS" Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com
43 posted on 07/03/2003 12:21:07 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.com)
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