KirbyForDonna
It's made of cast aluminum and can be polished and made to look like a mirror. You can buy every piece for maintenance and it can easily last 30 years. It has a 7amp motor that can pick up a bowling ball.
If you're into that sort of thing...
FMI: https://www.greatvacs.com/education/KirbyVsDysonVacuumReview.html
The route out of DFW class B (yellow route out - blue route back). Talked with KAFW tower to go through their airspace. Image courtesy http://www.AirPRS.com .
Jeff, the gentleman from the ad in craigslist, showed up at 11 AM and we went to a burger joint down the street a local at the airport recommended. Bill's Hamburgers. What was nice about this place was the owner was a woman named Jeanette, maybe in her 80s and wonderfully sweet. She walked around the dining room checking on everyone, giving some of the regulars shoulder rubs.
After lunch an RV-8 was parked on the ramp next to me. Looked around but never found the owner.The launch out of Burnet (blue line). Jeff works for the Inks Dam Fish Hatchery, and I promised I would overfly it and get a picture. Pic courtesy http://www.AirPRS.com .
Back on deck USS Monkeytown, going through the hardware. Note carpet shampoo attachment hasn't been taken out of the box. Never used. The brown tape was from Jeff's move recently from New Mexico to Texas. Note 'Zipp' head to the right of that (a $70 option).
Very good deal, very fair price ($400 me - $1,100 Jeff paid) from a very nice person.
This vacuum cleaner will easily last three decades.
Read https://www.greatvacs.com/education/KirbyVsDysonVacuumReview.html if you want a comparison between a 2004 Kirby and a 2007 Dyson.The entire route. 53 min down. 1hr 2min back.
Sis worked her tail off squaring away our late parent’s estate these past couple of years. She did way more than I did, and this is the first of many gifts from me to her. A way to say thank you.
You have to know my sister to realize how excited she is about this.
Her idea of ‘clean’ and yours might be different. She C.L.E.A.N.S.
I’ll add another pic down the road when I deliver it to her.
She’s a great sister.
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drMarch 25, 2017. The story picks up with my sister's 'new' vacuum cleaner ready to be put in the airplane and flown down to Waco. My sister had planned to drive up from Houston and spend the weekend with her old college roommate. We agreed that if the weather looked flyable that I would meet them for breakfast.
March 25, 2017. I grabbed this off the http://www.AirPRS.com website after I got back home to show my route out of the DFW airspace. We usually head to the Ranger VOR at 1900 feet and then you can gradually start to climb as you get further south.
March 25, 2017. My childhood home. It was about five blocks from where we ate breakfast. I broke that large picture window with a soccer ball around age 12. My parents room was the far two windows on the right. One of my hamsters is buried under those bushes. I remember having dreams as a kid being able to fly by flapping my arms. In those dreams I would fly up to the top of that power pole on the left and stand on the top of it. Isn't it interesting the things you remember…
My first business venture as a 10-year-old was selling Gillows balsa wood gliders from the concrete step there at the far left. Also parts from the gliders that I had broken...
In the one-day that business was open I had no customers and no sales.March 25, 2017. Speaking of Cynthia Collier, here she is about to get her first ride in my airplane (after my sister went). I worked at Leland Collier Electric company as a teenager (Cynthia's parents started it). She still works there, and of course that's where we went in the air so she could see it. Cynthia and my sister were college roomates.
Same ground track except with the satellite view on. You can see McGregor airport on the left side and the lower portion of Lake Waco in the center. My childhood home is in that clump of trees over at the right, and my dad used to set me on his lap and let me drive his truck as a six-year-old across that bridge on the lake (how terrifying is that?).
McGregor airport is where I had my very first airplane ride. My father worked at the Owens Illinois glass plant and somebody there had an airplane. My dad got me a ride in that person's Cessna 150. I believe I was 10 years old. I wish I knew the name of the gentleman who gave me a ride.