Ken Bondy
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Rancho Meling
carpe diem!
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ehall
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Nice picture. Did they finish the little chapel they were building?
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David K
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Thanks for the nice photo. Is that the runway in the background?
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Ken Bondy
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David - yes it is. Can't believe I lived through 20+ takeoffs and landings there.
ehall - don't know, it's been 10 years since I've been there. Sorry.
[Edited on 8-11-2015 by Ken Bondy]
carpe diem!
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David K
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There were once hundreds of airports in Baja... a private pilot's paradise to go everywhere on the peninsula! So sad that most of them have been
ditched to stop drug runners from using them!
Here is a map you might have used, from 1975. Every number in a circle is an Airport (landing strip) in Arnold Senterfitt's book. The other two
numbers (for non-pilots here) are the strip's elevation and the runway length (in hundreds of feet). Meling's airstrip shows 2,280 feet above sea
level and a 2,700 foot long runway.
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chuckie
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Anybody remember Harry (hairy) Mormon?
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Ken Bondy
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David my first trip to Meling was in 1975. I was using Senterfitt's 1973 edition - here's what Meling looked like there. I met him once - at Meling.
He was on a search and recover in the mountains:
carpe diem!
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David K
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LOL, I thought you could relate! Thanks!
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