Good evening all... .........

Oh yes...HALLOWEEN...

Halloween is just fifteen (15) days from now...are we ready?

How many of you would like to share a Halloween story with us members who still have our heads?

Perhaps some spooky stories from those aviators amongst us about real flying experiences?

How many here do not believe in witches, sorcerer's or sorcery?

My family and I love visiting Salem Massachusetts "The City of Witches" and we have relatives there....       

With more than five decades in the left seat, three Log Books of Tall Tales, Close Encounters and Poor Landings here is one landing I just thought about...

It was a late evening flight with a professional co-pilot on the Eve of Halloween.

I was going deer hunting within thirty hours and it was a long four wheel drive into the hunt camp after the flight.

The lads were already there and probably had sampled some of my wobbly pop...

The back end crew had orange and black candies in small dishes set out for the passengers along with the latest editions of many magazines, especially the Halloween editions which had some great recipes for pumpkin and other dishes.

It was about 23:00 hrs with eight minutes to go and the weather was CAVU "Clear Air Visibility Unlimited".

There was no Weather Radar, VORs, ILS back then and we were in constant contact with the GCA Controller.

I had control when number one hollered traffic, it happened so fast and he did not announce where, I was looking in every dam direction I could.

He finally said it passed overhead in front of us.

Well I could not see anything and neither could Air Traffic Control.

At that point a window in the passenger cabin popped out, now there was no evasive action on my part to make that happen as I was too busy scanning the sky ahead and watching the runway lights get closer.

The only thing we could document that was sucked out were the October Halloween Magazines, black and orange jelly beans and nothing else, nope, nothing else.   

My thoughts were that these were the newest monthly magazines and were probably on top of the others and that is the way I left it...

As for all the black and orange jelly beans, who knows, but probably the back end crew ate them...

BOO....

Nope Chuck, some farmer must have found a use for it...

I remember just down the road from the first home I bought which was less than my car in price there were two DC-3 Airframes and a PBY5 Airframe being used as chicken coops....

Hi Chuck...

We were out for a drive the other day to look at the Fall/Autumn colours which are still beautiful.

The old girl had me stop at one of those road side stands to purchase some squash, turnips and a couple other things.

It was on a road we have seldom travelled and behind the main barn with just it's nose sticking out I saw an aircraft.

The farmer did not know what it was, only that his father had stored things in it.

Well he allowed us to go look at it.

It was an AVRO Anson, sitting on it's belly with no wings or rudder.  She had been stripped clean and was in poor poor shape.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Anson

Many years ago some folks had came and bought parts off it from his father.

Lots of old trainers sitting around farm yards from the BCATP "British Commonwealth Air Training Program" during World War Two.

Many were used as chicken coops or storage sheds.

There are a few good spooky stories floating around here about haunted hangars from that same time period but I would like to read about some other members stories...

Hi Mark...

Thanks for the reply...much appreciated...

Was going to do a post for those of you living in Merry Old England as I am sure there must be stories from World War One and Two about haunted airfields and aircraft...

My grandparents used to tell stories about those time periods but we children were supposed to be in bed....

It was hard to get grandparents, parents etc. to talk about those war years and so much has been forgotten.

Even today, the men and women comming back from the hot spots on the planet do not talk about those encounters...

Would love to hear other stories, real or not...

Love it...awesome "Groundbound1"...

Who said Halloween is just for kids...

Awesome Larry...awesome...

There was a family of at least six last year that dressed as the Flinstones including a replica of the vehicle from the show...

It must have taken some time and thought to put that all together but what really amazed folks was there was a cold rain falling and yet they still put on their show...

Halloween decorations are out and it is a week today.

So where are your spooky stories folks???    

Hello!

No spooky stories for All Hallow's Eve, but I do remember the "good old days" when:

-- we used to go out in groups of 20 or 25 kids and roam the neighborhood free; no parents, wherever we wanted to go.
-- we actually came home early to drop off the first chock full bag of goodies before heading out again!
-- folks in the neighborhood turned their whole houses into haunted houses, and we went in without a care in the world.
-- after canvassing our neighborhood, the parents would drive us to another one and we'd start all over again!

Of course, in this day and age the Frankenstein get-up and accompanying festivities would offend some parent out there, resulting in a visit from local law enforcement... 

Ahhh, the good old days...

Have a Happy and Festive All Hallow's Eve!

Alan