Ron Freiberger
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Mark Jones said;
 Wouldn't it be nice to have big round runways then we could always
land directly into the wind.


[Ron Freiberger]
 We have one at Converse, Indiana.  It was built for the Navy at Bunker
Hill NAS, Now Grissom AFB.  This was for touch and go practice for
beginning aviators.  It's an 800 foot Octagon.  For many years it was
kind of abandoned, 'cause there was a drainage trough across the middle.
It was wood, and had rotted out.  The city of Converse repaired it, and
it sometimes the site of Giant scale model airplane meets, with enough
room for flying and all the campers.  Drop in if you're that way.  More
facilities at Kokomo, which was a satellite base of BHNAS, now operated
by the city.  *00 feet is nice for most of us, when it's straight into
the wind and easy approaches,

Ron Freiberger 
mailto ronandmar...@earthlink.net 
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