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My brother Noel and Kola |
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Heather Reekie Renz ~ webmaster maestro. |
Postcard of Old Elie Harbour |
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A friendly Hielan Beastie |
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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.
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Building
19. The Tektronix Metals and Plastics component manufacturing plant where super
dedicated individuals created ultra precision state of the art components. One of the
many buildings on the Tektronix campus. (Right next to the Beaverton Oregon
airstrip.)
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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 (Now a
shopping mall.)
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 landing on a dime 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, on the
part before the jog to the right. (The opposite of a low, drag-in, power all
the way. carrier landing.) The roadway on the right is Cedar Hills Boulevard.
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Beaverton pilot? |
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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.
photo
taken by Jim Brown from his Navion
Me
above Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle
Me
with 69November and Marlow Butler with 36Delta refueling at Hillsboro
Oregon
For
12 years this was home Marlow's
Navion held 100 gallons of fuel to safely fly 1200 miles For
25 years I was 36Delta's "crew chief" 
Julie
Clark |
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This is my second set of
wheels, a '37 Ford.
My first was a similar '29
Lea Francis.
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September 29, 2007 ~ Heather
& me ~ Middle Sister in the background |
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September 29, 2007 ~ Macduff
~ Heather & Mike's Golden Retriever |
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September 29, 2007 ~ Me and
Mike with the North Sister in the background |
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November 5, 2007 ~ On
the summit of Black Butte. Mt. Jefferson in the far background |
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November 22, 2007 ~ A view
of the North and Middle Sister from above the clouds
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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
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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.
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