SMALL PLANES, BIG ART

WELCOME

to ANTON KRAJNC's studio in La Cholla Airpark,
his hide-away in the cactus desert, near Tucson, Arizona.

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  Bob Kelliher and his lovely wife Ann came to live here, then left us for CA,
  but just decided to move back into the Airpark. WELCOME again!!
  We shall see more of his "Tweety-Bird", a Lancair 4P with pressurized cabin, from now on.
  Bob built it himself, with the help of a friend, clocking six thousand hours. (It took five years!)
  
  
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  Gary Lichte built one of our most beautiful houses in the Airpark,
  and (all by himself in 7 years) a perfect Glassair, with which he won Second Place in 1996
  
  
  
  in Oshkosh!
  
  Besides Oshkosh, there are many other regional FLY-INs
  listed by
  You might enjoy visiting their Photo Gallery, too...
  
  
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  Pete Shepley manufactures Precision Shooting Equipment (hi-tech bows and arrows etc),
  has an arena on his grounds, where Mini Rodeos and Calf Ropings take place, and used to entertain us all
  - and sometimes scare visitors - when he practiced aerobatics above our heads in his Sukhoi.
  
  Unfortunately, new houses being built all around the Airpark at a positively alarming rate,
  have put a stop to this practice.
  
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  Mary and Skip Walker have joined our community in 1997.
  They are both pilots and Skip has been building a fabulous plane
  ( from a very complicated kit)
  in his spacious and well organized hangar right off the runway.
  Meanwhile, Mary has written a book about her 21st Century Aviation Adventure,
  following the Lewis and Clark expedition trail in a small plane
  
  - CHASING LEWIS AND CLARK ACROSS AMERICA -
  with fantastic photos by Ron Lowery, who travelled in his own very small plane.
  The link above brings you right to the book at the Barnes and Noble website.
  
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  Here's something truly "crazy" - it was forwarded by another lady pilot and neighbour in the airpark
  (her comment: "they can't be serious!!").
  She got it from Patty Wagstaff
  (Three Time National Aerobatic Champion, she doesn't live here, but visits sometimes)
  who found it looking for airshows on the Internet!!
  You be the judge if it can be done, if it is real, or a clever hoax??
  
  
  
  The Moscow Flying Ballet
  dancing atop a plane - have seemingly flown the coop.
  I shall supply their link when they reappear on my horizon!
  
  
  
  
  

  MORE OF OUR RESIDENT PILOTS AND AIRPLANE AFICIONADOS to be ADDED soon!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  !AVIATION HUMOUR ALERT!:
  
  WOMEN AND AIRPLANES
  Some not very serious comparisons collected on the 'net...
  
  
  Do we dare make fun of PILOTS??
  Of course, we do!
  
  Q: How do you know if there's a fighter pilot at your party?
  A: He'll tell you.
  
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  Q. What's the difference between God and fighter pilots?
  A: God doesn't think he's a fighter pilot.
  
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  On some air bases, the Air Force is on one side of the field
  and civilian aircraft use the other side of the field,
  with the control tower in the middle.
  One day the tower received a call from an aircraft asking, "What time is it?"
  The tower responded, "Who is calling?"
  The aircraft replied, "What difference does it make?"
  The tower replied "It makes a lot of difference.
  If this is an American Airlines Flight, it is 3 o'clock.
  If this is Air Force, it is 1500 hours.
  If this is a Navy aircraft, it is 6 bells.
  If this is an Army aircraft, the big hand is on the 12 and the little hand is on the 3.
  If this is a Marine Corps aircraft, it's Thursday afternoon."
  
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  Subject: Flight Instruction
  Forget all that stuff about thrust and drag, lift and gravity;
  an airplane flies because of money!
  
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  Interesting problem...
  You are a South African bush pilot.
  You fly in some critical medical supplies,
  enjoy a quick lunch at the hospital.
  It's a stifling 100 degrees in the shade
  and you're eager to get back up to the cool, high blue yonder.
  
  On the way back to your plane, you discover that
  the only bit of shade, within 1 mile, has become very popular ...
  You start calculating the distance to the plane door ...
  and wonder ... "Do I feel lucky today?"
  
  Go have a look! Then use your browser's "BACK" button to come back to this page!
  
  
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  If you have arrived here
  directly from the LA CHOLLA AIRPARK Homepage,
  or another Aviation site that links to us,
  do stay around a while and visit more of Anton's Studio and our other pages.
  Leave us a note, so we'll know you've come by.
  
  May you fly in clear skies
  and - ONCE UP THERE! - may all your winds be tailwinds...
  
  (THANKS for the recent email, reminding me that a tailwind is not
  something you'd want for take-off or landing!)
  
  By the way, let's check our weather here in Tucson!
  
  And just to be mean - here's the current weather in Austria:
  choose Vienna or Salzburg.
  Apropos: speak German? Hier ist eine interessante Seite:
  Österreich's virtuelles Militärluftfahrt-Journal
  
  Thinking of living in an Airpark?
  Visit AirportHomes.com, Michele Chambre's Complete Guide to Residential Airparks