19 January 2012

phone interview with central louisiana ultralight pilot travis bennett

early one morning, back in late august 2011, a small ultralight flew over our house. luckily our camera was close at hand and we managed to get a short vid clip which we posted that morning to youtube:

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7:16 am cdt, saturday, 27 august 2011.
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flash forward, to december 2011, when we noticed a comment at that clip from the youtuber tkben002
Cool, I like the plane....(cause it is mine, and that is me flying it). This has to be around Alexandria somewhere. Just curious where you caught me flying at?
instead of replying to the comment we messaged him through youtube and asked him to email us which he did and we exchanged some information such as the location where we filmed him from.

we asked him if he would be game to our phoning him up for an "interview" about it all and he said sure after the holidays to email him, which we did this afternoon and he replied that he was free this evening.
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link to audio download page
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below is the video playlist of footage he shot during his recent trip to the hope/mena arkansas area:


playlist direct link
www.youtube.com/user/tkben002

eaa 614 facebook
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as you can tell from the "interview" mr. bennett sounds like a really nice and helpful guy so if you're interested in learning to fly or just want more information, check out their facebook page at the link above.
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    UPDATE 11 february 2012. in the conversation we mentioned seeing a gyrocopter flying around in the '90's. we just found an old newspaper clipping we have about it:
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    photograph of the13 august 1995 alexandria daily town talk news report
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    scan of the news report
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    scan of the news report
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    EXTERNAL LINK

    Posted by wst... at 19:59