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Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: FiLtH on February 08, 2005, 09:23:24 AM
Any New Englanders out there...

      Would you be interested in finding a place to meet and tell war stories, get to meet the faces to the names in here, and brag about our RedSox and Patriots?

       Its a drab time of year, and would be fun to do this.
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: Manedew on February 08, 2005, 10:42:29 AM
Don't know about meetings ..... i'm awefully lazy...

But if your ever in Northwestern VT, I'll grab drink with you-if ya don't mind a VT freak :D
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: cav58d on February 08, 2005, 11:18:04 AM
Connecticut???
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: FiLtH on February 08, 2005, 12:25:29 PM
Well im thinking southern NH as a good place, or northern MAss. More centrally located.
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: Midnight on February 08, 2005, 12:47:13 PM
I work in Gardner, MA (North Central on RT2 and RT140).

JonnyB is in NH, but works in Tewksbury, MA

Where to meet? I like North Central, MA idea because I live in Oxford, MA (South Central, MA on RT395)
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: DaPup on February 08, 2005, 01:26:20 PM
ManeDew, Burlington works for me. I'm in St. Albans a few times a year, I have numerous Aunts, Uncles and cousins who live there. Cav, where in CT. are you? I live in East Hampton which is east of Middletown.
  Filth, I will meet up anywhere in New England to pound down some rum and cokes with ya :aok




DaPuo
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: BlueJ1 on February 08, 2005, 02:10:51 PM
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: FiLtH on February 08, 2005, 04:57:11 PM
Sounds good Dapup! Lets see if we can get a few more Chow-dah Heads involved :)
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: cav58d on February 08, 2005, 05:15:01 PM
Trumbull CT here....Yeah I'd definately love to meet up with all you suckers....Blindbatp@aol.com is the e-mail address....lets get an e-mail circulating through us NE'ers and try and plan something out


cav
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: FiLtH on February 09, 2005, 12:10:14 AM
my email addy is fluxputz@hotmail.com
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: Delirium on February 09, 2005, 07:02:56 AM
I'd definitely be up for it as well, I live in Connecticut.
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: Anchor on February 09, 2005, 06:18:59 PM
Heck, I would drive up for that, but everyone talks funny.

heheh (N.C.)
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: Icer on February 09, 2005, 08:54:08 PM
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Originally posted by Delirium
I'd definitely be up for it as well, I live in Connecticut.


CT? Nothin there but steers and queers...





I got horns BTW... :rofl
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: FiLtH on February 09, 2005, 09:52:45 PM
I didnt know they had steers in CT!
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: sickbird on February 09, 2005, 09:54:48 PM
They don't.
Title: New England meeting
Post by: TwrATM on February 09, 2005, 11:08:52 PM
Connecticut here to, Bridgeport area....would be awesome to set something up. Let us know when...:-)

BTW....in June my airport here in Bridgeport is having a WWII anniversary as this is the home of the F4U Corsair.....they are supposed to have 6 of them here for that with alot of other WWII stuff.

Rob
TwrATM
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: DaPup on February 10, 2005, 08:26:59 AM
It seems like there are quite a few of us from Connecticut, I say we have our own little get together at Kahoots :D  
  TwrATM, I will be there in June in Bridgeport, it's only about 45min from me.


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Heck, I would drive up for that, but everyone talks funny

Anchor, where would you stay we don't have many trailers up here  ;)   J/K bro

Pete DaPup
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: streetstang on February 10, 2005, 08:45:13 AM
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Originally posted by cav58d
Trumbull CT here....Yeah I'd definately love to meet up with all you suckers....Blindbatp@aol.com is the e-mail address....lets get an e-mail circulating through us NE'ers and try and plan something out


cav


LOL

Lived in Newtown then moved to Southbury.
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: streetstang on February 10, 2005, 08:49:12 AM
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Originally posted by Icer
CT? Nothin there but steers and queers...





I got horns BTW... :rofl



Dont you live in Wooooodbury!?! :D
Title: New England Meeting
Post by: TwrATM on February 10, 2005, 09:04:47 AM
Looking forward to meeting you guys. The event here in June should be fun, will be sweet to see that many F4U's together.

If ya want I'll get ya a tour of my tower at the airport too. Heck...maybe even go flying.

Rob
TwrATM
Title: Re: New England meeting
Post by: streetstang on February 10, 2005, 09:36:19 AM
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Originally posted by TwrATM
Connecticut here to, Bridgeport area....would be awesome to set something up. Let us know when...:-)

BTW....in June my airport here in Bridgeport is having a WWII anniversary as this is the home of the F4U Corsair.....they are supposed to have 6 of them here for that with alot of other WWII stuff.

Rob
TwrATM


no way!!!

Oh that'll be sweet. I'm in on that.
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: FiLtH on February 10, 2005, 09:37:01 AM
Id rather see it more centrally located than Connectacu-t. :)
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: moose on February 10, 2005, 10:25:56 AM
didnt we try to do this once before midnight? :)

i'm in cape cod but i'll go anywhere. email is splitter at gmail dot com
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: Midnight on February 10, 2005, 05:22:28 PM
Yeah moose. We were going to go to the New England Air Mueseum for "open cockpit day" but for some reason they stopped doing it so we never finalized the plans.

Well, maybe this time someone will finalize some plan and I'll be there. With my schedule these days, I can't even finalize plans for what time I'm going to leave work each day.
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: Anchor on February 10, 2005, 08:02:48 PM
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Originally posted by DaPup

 
Anchor, where would you stay we don't have many trailers up here  ;)   J/K bro

Pete DaPup



Hehe, that's why we lernt to sleep outside. Same thang'

:)
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: Vudak on February 10, 2005, 08:37:35 PM
Tell me where to go.  Might I suggest the 7-11 in Quonnie, RI...  Best damn hotdogs in the world.
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: mars01 on February 10, 2005, 09:37:34 PM
TWR do you know the specific dates.  I'm there!  They are keeping airport open?
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: moose on February 11, 2005, 01:26:05 AM
we should do it at an airport so the guys with ppls can fly in :cool:
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: TwrATM on February 11, 2005, 05:14:08 PM
This is the original artical, of course no specific date in June as of yet.  I will let ya know when I get the word on it. As far as the airport remaining open it will probably be NOTAM'd for a short time to allow the arrival and most likely flyby's of the F4U's. Before and after should be normal ops for the day.

Rob
TwrATM

   
Corsairs Over Connecticut

Warbird Returns To Their Roots For 60th Anniversary Of WWII Victory
To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the end of WWII, June 2005 will see nine Chance Vought F4U Corsairs return home to Connecticut for the Veterans Salute, a celebration honoring the men and woman who worked on the home front and served in the military during WWII.

Designed and built entirely in Connecticut, powered by a Pratt and Whitney engine and Hamilton Standard Propeller, the Corsair represents the people and manufacturers who created the Constitution State's mighty "Arsenal of Democracy" during WWII. "The Corsair is Connecticut and it's people", stated Jerry O'Neill, Display Coordinator, "and we've put together an amazing program never before attempted outside of Hollywood!"

Visitors will be transported to back to Bridgeport during the height of WWII. Unique "set-pieces" will be arranged throughout the weekend including a recreation of the Chance Vought Corsair Factory, complete with aircraft parts, engines, props, shop equipment, "Rosie the Riveter's" and real Corsairs. A "War Bond Rally" and a factory "Test Flight" are also planned. Other displays include WWII aircraft, military vehicles and historical re-enactors.
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: streetstang on February 11, 2005, 05:25:42 PM
Last time I heard a hog fire up I thought my teeth were going to rattle out of my skull. Only thing louder I've ever heard other than that was being in the staging lanes next to an alcohol dragster when they fire that up while I'm right next to it. I love loud toys. :D

This CoC should be awsome. Im deffinatly going to make it to that.
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: mars01 on February 11, 2005, 05:31:47 PM
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Corsairs Over Connecticut

Warbird Returns To Their Roots For 60th Anniversary Of WWII Victory
To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the end of WWII, June 2005 will see nine Chance Vought F4U Corsairs return home to Connecticut for the Veterans Salute, a celebration honoring the men and woman who worked on the home front and served in the military during WWII.

Designed and built entirely in Connecticut, powered by a Pratt and Whitney engine and Hamilton Standard Propeller, the Corsair represents the people and manufacturers who created the Constitution State's mighty "Arsenal of Democracy" during WWII. "The Corsair is Connecticut and it's people", stated Jerry O'Neill, Display Coordinator, "and we've put together an amazing program never before attempted outside of Hollywood!"

Visitors will be transported to back to Bridgeport during the height of WWII. Unique "set-pieces" will be arranged throughout the weekend including a recreation of the Chance Vought Corsair Factory, complete with aircraft parts, engines, props, shop equipment, "Rosie the Riveter's" and real Corsairs. A "War Bond Rally" and a factory "Test Flight" are also planned. Other displays include WWII aircraft, military vehicles and historical re-enactors.


Dude that gave me wood!!!  I can't wait!   If I miss this event I will go out back and shoot myself in the head.  :D

Every time I fly into BDR I go out and drool over the one on the Ped!

Thank god Danbury is close!

Thanks bud
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: streetstang on February 11, 2005, 05:35:31 PM
Danbury is Teh SUCK!

Too bad I'll be finishing up my comp sci degree there though! lol. :(

Oh yes. Lotsa stuff to do in danbury. Yeser. TK's, Colo. Brewery, ummmm whats the name of that strip joint now? The one down the road from the campus? They change their name once a month there. I dont think they'll let us back in there tho.
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: mars01 on February 11, 2005, 05:45:19 PM
HAHHA lol  it sure is.

Comp Sci.  What are you doing that for?  Jobs are overseas now being done by slaves.  No work in Computers in this country anymore.
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: streetstang on February 11, 2005, 05:54:26 PM
Thats why I put it on the back burner and made the move to uconn. Well the real reason for going to uconn is because I was up there almost every weekend from thursday night to sunday morning partying err um visiting friends. I dont think there is any other campus in the NE that literally shuts down for 4 days and nights for what has come to be known as "spring bash". Which is basicly thousands of kids drinking and doing various "other" activities in parking lots with bands on stages and kegs every 5 ft, cars flipped over, furniture on fire girls stri... you get the idea... lol... Good times. I am almost done with comp sci, I might as well finish it when I get back. Or not. We'll see.

Alrighty, I'll stop jacking this thread now. sry. stfu Mars!:D
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: FiLtH on February 11, 2005, 05:54:32 PM
Wow that sounds like alot of fun!
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: TwrATM on February 11, 2005, 06:05:54 PM
What do you fly into BDR with?
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: mars01 on February 12, 2005, 02:59:54 PM
152, V35.

We'll shoot the approaches for practice, havn't done em in a while tho.

We mostly run Poughkeepsi  ILS 6, then do the VOR A back into Danbury, once in a while we do Bridgeport or Oxford.

My buddy with the V35 has a brother in BDR so we'll pop into there.

BDR has a great terminal.  It's a shame that it is a ghost town.  Would be a great place to start an air taxi.
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: mars01 on February 12, 2005, 03:02:57 PM
No doubt finish it up Morph.  Network guys will always have a job here, it's the programming that has gotten very compettive and in jeopardy.

CS is still a good degree to have no matter what you do.

Uconn rocks.  My Sophomore year I drove from PSU to Uconn just for Home comming and it was on halloween.  potato peeling nutts.  I got two speeding tickets gettting there lolh.

Long time ago tho.
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: Dux on February 12, 2005, 04:18:28 PM
Sounds fun.

Moose, pick me up at Minuteman or Hanscom and I'll split the cost w/ ya. ;)
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: sickbird on February 14, 2005, 03:22:13 PM
LOL -- Sounds like UCONN hasn't changed in the past 20 years.

BTW, there are still some CS programming jobs....
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: moose on February 15, 2005, 12:15:26 AM
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Originally posted by Dux
Sounds fun.

Moose, pick me up at Minuteman or Hanscom and I'll split the cost w/ ya. ;)


could be fun! :) maybe we should do that. (if you can believe i wouldnt get us lost and fly into canada)
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: Westy on February 15, 2005, 07:33:31 AM
"With my schedule these days, I can't even finalize plans for what time I'm going to leave work each day."


 That was the case for me two years ago. I could not seriously plan on getting to a "meet" at the NEAM.

 But it's a couple of years later, the littlest is older now and my sons &  I would love to see the Corsairs.  I'll keep a tab on the dates and perhaps I'll finally meet some of you this summer.  

 
Title: A New England Meeting
Post by: Dux on February 15, 2005, 07:27:09 PM
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Originally posted by moose
could be fun! :) maybe we should do that. (if you can believe i wouldnt get us lost and fly into canada)


Don't worry, got my own PPL... only my Med ran out last year and been too busy to renew it. Flown to Canada once... pretty hard to get lost. :)

Although... if I could get it in time, we could get some formation time in... ;)