Drools

The otter is actually too big for the hangar. To get it in there, they have a couple of us big guys get in the back, and then the drop the tail and swing it in.

Some nice aircraft, they still haven't made anything to replace what those old Twin Otters can do

Yeah, the pilots say she's damn near impossible to stall (Though we saw quite a dive today after everyone on the plane exited at the same time,) she'll get a LOT of us to altitude in a reasonable amount of time, and the doors are nice and wide! My first few jumps out of the king air were miserable because I was trying to exit from inside the door, with 1 or 2 instructors. You pretty much HAVE to climb out of that thing for that type of jump. I can dive out of a king air with no problem now, but unless I'm sitting on the floor right in front of the door in the king air, the otter is much more comfortable.

I got some dude landing his loud-ass radial engine plane yesterday. The joys of hanging out at an airport! Make it full screen and you can get a decent look at his plane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHrwnW440fw&feature=plcp

Looks like an old Sea Fury or something

They thought it might be a Zero or a Zero Replica, but I'm not sure it looks quite right for that. One of the other guys said something about some Russian radial engine plane that it could have been. It was loud as hell taking off, that's for sure! We thought he might do a touch-and-go, but he just landed and taxied in. I got drafted into pushing the Cessna around (This happens quite often if you hang around there after hours!) and lost track of where he went. I'd have loved to have talked to him and found out more about it.

There are some neat planes out there. A couple of biplanes fly out of there regularly too.