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[*] posted on 8-10-2015 at 04:26 PM
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[*] posted on 8-10-2015 at 04:32 PM


Nice picture. Did they finish the little chapel they were building?
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[*] posted on 8-10-2015 at 05:47 PM


Thanks for the nice photo. Is that the runway in the background?



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[*] posted on 8-10-2015 at 06:35 PM


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.

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[*] posted on 8-10-2015 at 11:25 PM


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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[*] posted on 8-11-2015 at 12:27 AM


Anybody remember Harry (hairy) Mormon?



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[*] posted on 8-11-2015 at 07:15 AM


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:




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[*] posted on 8-11-2015 at 08:27 AM


LOL, I thought you could relate! Thanks!



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