{"id":4870,"date":"2012-09-10T13:14:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T18:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fitzvideo.com\/sky_surfing\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2012-09-10T13:14:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T18:14:05","slug":"kansas-citys-new-gooney-bird-by-bob-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/2012\/09\/10\/kansas-citys-new-gooney-bird-by-bob-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City’s New Gooney Bird by Bob Punch"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the beginning of a story I’ve been working on for many months and is somewhat out of the ordinary to say the least.\u00a0 The Gooney Bird that you see here performed spraying duties in Florida (with her sister ships) for many years and was delivered to the Ottawa, Kansas, airport some months ago. It had been purchased by an energetic, prominent local businessman\/aviation devotee, Mr. Danny O’Neil.\u00a0 N838M was taken apart according to plan, modifications performed for its new mission, safety issues resolved, painted, and then trucked in large pieces to it’s new home in downtown Kansas City.<\/p>\n

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N838M<\/p><\/div>\n

The IFR flight plan for N838M doesn\u2019t close out there however, as after being expertly reassembled in the rear parking lot of\u00a0The Roasterie,<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.theroasterie.com\/<\/a>\u00a0it will then be lifted by a two-hundred-ten ton crane and placed permanently atop a roof-top runway.<\/p>\n

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N838M being carefully dis-assembled<\/p><\/div>\n

The soon to be completed rooftop runway is visible for some distance.\u00a0 That’s Southwest Blvd at the end of 27th St. on the left of the photo.<\/p>\n

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And as the drawing below illustrates, N838M will be pointed skyward in her final ‘tie-down spot.’\u00a0 Both she and the runway will be lighted and easily visible<\/p>\n

from nearby I-35 and the entire neighborhood and will vie for prominence with the other KC landmarks.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been working on this one for some time and thought I’d share? Placing the bird atop it’s new mooring will be attempted on an absolute ZERO WIND day in about two weeks? I’m going to be able to do some shooting from the roof for the event and it shud be exciting?<\/p>\n

Bob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the beginning of a story I’ve been working on for many months and is somewhat out of the ordinary to say the least.\u00a0 The Gooney Bird that you see here performed spraying duties in Florida (with her sister ships) for many years and was delivered to the Ottawa, Kansas, airport some months ago. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-show-an-airfield","category-show-an-airplane","category-uncategorized","category-6-id","category-5-id","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4876,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions\/4876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}