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- Robert Burns

 

 

 

 

Photo Gallery

 

Macduff's Cave ~ Earlsferry

My good friend Albert in Charlie's Chair

 

My brother Noel and Kola

 

  Heather Reekie Renz ~ webmaster maestro.

 

Postcard of Old Elie Harbour

 

A friendly Hielan Beastie

 

Bellerophon and Pegasus. 1966 Me and my homebuilt Baby Ace single place open cockpit winged horse 

 with which I often used to commute right from home to work at Tektronix. 

Shown on Charlie Bernard's Beaverton Oregon Airport.

 

 

The Beaverton Airstrip

 

The Tektronix campus is just out of this photo on the left. When landing to the north and just for the fun of it, we Beaverton flyboys "graduated" when we were able to come in high and do a semi-broadside full forward slip by closing the throttle to do a power off, all the way to the ground, landing. This was done by pushing the left wing down, pulling the nose high and crossing the controls by applying full right rudder, (What we called a helicopter descent.) to drop almost straight down over the power line and the creek at the south end of the field, then straighten up, flare and land very short on the taxi-way extension to make the turn off before getting to the actual runway, (The opposite of a low, drag-in, power all the way. carrier landing.) The roadway on the right is Cedar Hills Boulevard.

 

My favorite airplane

The Navion designed by North American Aviation in 1946 is the best 

and safest single engine civilian aircraft of all time.

Length, Wing Span and Height are the same as the RAF Supermarine Spitfire.

 

For 12 years this was home

This Navion held 100 gallons of fuel to safely fly well over 1200 miles

 

1952. This is my second set of wheels, a '37 Ford.   

My first was a similar '29 Lea Francis.

 

Reaching for the Top

 

 

September 29, 2007 ~ Heather & me ~ Middle Sister in the background

 

September 29, 2007 ~ Macduff ~ Heather & Mike's Golden Retriever

 

September 29, 2007 ~ Me and Mike with the North Sister in the background

 

November 5, 2007 ~  On the summit of Black Butte. Mt. Jefferson in the far background

 

November 22, 2007 ~ A view of the North and Middle Sister from above the clouds

 

November 25, 2007 ~ South Sister (left) and Broken Top (in front) taken from atop Tumalo Mountain

 

2007 Between Elie and St. Monans

All that's left of Ardross Castle. 

 

June 8th 2008  With Heather and Mike on the summit of Black Butte

 

 

Two great talented and gifted men, Jack Murdoch and Howard Vollum. 

For 24 years I was on their, "Committed to Excellence" Tektronix team and was one

of the many that were privileged to work with and know them as "Jack" and "Howard".

 Tektronix high speed cathode-ray, ultra precision oscilloscopes achieved world wide

renown and spawned the birth of the electronic, the information and the space ages.

Shown are the original, the 511, and a next generation mainframe "plug-in" oscilloscope the 545. 

 

Building 19.   The Metals and Plastics component manufacturing plant.Where state of the art,

 ultra precision components were created. One of the many buildings on the Tektronix campus.

(Right next to the Beaverton, Oregon, airstrip.)

 

July 30th. 2008 Faith, Hope and Charity from the top of Iron Mountain

 

 August 8th. 2008 Top of the Middle Sister

Son-in-law Mike took this photo. From the hiking trail it's 5,000 feet up to the top

 

 September 7th 2008. Yeah, did it again.

  On the summit of Black Crater. Elevation 7257 feet. 

Mt. Washington in the background.

 

September 14th. 2008

On the slopes of Three Fingered Jack Elevation 7841 feet

 

 

September 16th. 2008

On Tam MacArthur Rim Elevation 7732 feet

 

This is Heidi (a Havanese) at 9 weeks old, the latest addition to the family. Born June.'08

 

Fall colors at Clear Lake Oregon Oct 25th 2008

 

 

Oct. 27 2008. South approach to the North Sister

 

 August 21st 2009 Air Show, Madras, Oregon

1926 model S Reekie alongside of a 1926 model T Ford.

That was a very good year.