Leg 309, Fort Worth, Texas via Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Missouri to Quincy, Illinois, USA
DAY06_26.PLN (20.5 KB)
A mega marathon leg. The longest for being active at the controls, all over dense terrain including 9 photogrammetry areas. Data consumption for this leg was 21.2 GiB. 6 states, 58 stops and too many pictures.
06-26 Fort Worth Meacham Intl KFTW 7:14 AM
06-26 Ft Worth Spinks KFWS 7:21 AM
06-26 Mims Farm 01TX 7:32 AM Ellis County History 32°23’7"N 96°50’52"W
06-26 Harbor Point 74XA 7:47 AM
06-26 Tyler Pounds Rgnl KTYR 8:02 AM
06-26 Kilgore 4TX6 8:17 AM Longview PG Area 32°28’6"N 94°43’46"W
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06-26 Kilgore 4TX6 9:08 AM
06-26 Harrison Co KASL 9:24 AM
06-26 Shreveport Rgnl KSHV 9:36 AM Shreveport PG Area
06-26 Shreveport Downtown KDTN 9:55 AM
06-26 Barksdale Afb KBAD 9:58 AM
06-26 Arcadia-Bienville Paris 5F0 10:13 AM
06-26 Ruston Regl KRSN 10:22 AM
06-26 Monroe Rgnl KMLU 10:43 AM Monroe PG Area
06-26 Hooks Meml M79 10:51 AM
06-26 Gustafson 71LA 11:02 AM
06-26 Scott M80 11:06 AM
06-26 Freebird 7MS7 11:20 AM
06-26 Hawkins Field KHKS 11:26 AM Jackson PG Area
06-26 Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International KJAN 11:42 AM
06-26 Dee’s strip 5MS6 11:52 AM
06-26 Kaehr 6MS6 11:57 AM
06-26 Harrell Field MS08 12:02 PM
06-26 Carthage-Leake County 08M 12:11 PM
06-26 Kosciusko-Attala Co KOSX 12:20 PM
06-26 Winona-Montgomery County 5A6 12:31 PM
06-26 Grenada Mun KGNF 12:40 PM
06-26 Panola Co KPMU 12:55 PM
06-26 Williams Field 08MS 1:03 PM
06-26 Berryhill Farms MS64 1:09 PM
06-26 Memphis Intl KMEM 1:15 PM Memphis PG Area
06-26 General Dewitt Spain M01 1:55 PM
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06-26 General Dewitt Spain M01 3:34 PM
06-26 McNeely 63AR 3:41 PM
06-26 Delta Regl KDRP 3:49 PM
06-26 Stans Field KBRR 3:57 PM
06-26 Carlisle Mun 4M3 4:09 PM
06-26 R V Stewart Field AR55 4:18 PM
06-26 Adams KLIT 4:22 PM Little Rock PG Area
06-26 North Little Rock Municipal KORK 4:59 PM
06-26 Bobwhite Hill Ranch AR84 5:05 PM
06-26 Arkavalley 12A 5:12 PM
06-26 Clinton Mun KCCA 5:25 PM
06-26 Searcy County 4A5 5:34 PM
06-26 Misty Meadows MO65 5:52 PM
06-26 Lake Taney Como 1MU1 6:00 PM Small field
06-26 Gimlin 18MO 6:11 PM
06-26 Childress Airstrip MU12 6:15 PM Springfield PG Area 37°11’47"N 93°16’48"W
06-26 Springfield-Branson National KSGF 6:36 PM
06-26 Textor 41MO 6:41 PM Internet down again
06-26 Stockton Mun MO3 6:52 PM
06-26 Skyriders MO52 7:03 PM
06-26 Bar-Vik MO89 7:16 PM
06-26 Eldon Model H79 7:26 PM
06-26 Jefferson City Memorial KJEF 7:40 PM Jefferson PG Area
06-26 Columbia Rgnl KCOU 7:48 PM Columbia PG Area 38°56’58"N 92°19’32"W
06-26 White Cloud Flying Field MU23 8:12 PM
06-26 Bradley KMBY 8:23 PM
06-26 Shelby Co 6K2 8:33 PM
06-26 Quincy Rgnl-Baldwin Field KUIN 8:49 PM
06-26 Mt Sterling Mun I63 8:58 PM
Flight time 11:14 58 stops
Departing from Fort Worth Meacham International Airport
Fort Worth at dawn
First stop at Ft Worth Spinks Airport
Sunrise over Johnson County
Midlothian
Yes, lightning as usual, every single day
Ellis County Historic Courthouse, a lone landmark in Waxahachie, Texas
This courthouse is the fourth one to stand on this site, starting with an 1850 log cabin costing $59, a wooden frame structure in 1854 for $1,999, and two-story yellow limestone structure with a tower for $40,000 circa 1870. Finally the most recently restored courthouse was formally accepted in 1897 at a cost of approximately $130,000 plus the supervising architect’s fee. link
Cedar Creek Reservoir
Harbor Point Airport / Gun Barrel City Airpark LLC
Tyler Pounds Regional Airport
Home to Historic Aviation Memorial Museum
Kilgore Airport-4TX6
Longview, mostly located in Gregg County
Gregg County Historical Museum (small red building on the left side)
Longview Transit Station
FTSI on E Whaley St
Harrison County Airport
Arriving in Shreveport, Louisiana, next to Cross Lake
Independence Stadium and Hirsch Memorial Coliseum - George’s Pond, home to the Shreveport Mudbugs
Shreveport Municipal Auditorium, 1920’s venue, the building lust left of my nose
Downtown at Milam St an Edward St
At Cotton St and McNeil St
Shreveport Fire Department along Twelve Mile Bayou
Sam’s Town Hotel & Casino, Shreveport on the Red River
Shreveport Aquarium at Downtown Riverfront
Boomtown Casino Hotel
Diamond Jacks, heading for Shreveport Downtown Arprt-Dtn in the distance
Landing at Aeroportul Arcadia-Bienville Parish
Monroe on the Ouachita River
Monroe Downtown Rivermarket
Monroe Civic Center
Youngs Bayou (small river crossing the road and tracks)
Monroe Regional Airport behind the Pecanland Mall
Hooks Memorial Airport in Richland Parish
The Mississippi River in Warren County
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Hawkins Field Airport in Jackson
Jackson, the capital of Mississippi
Mississippi State Capitol
Jackson Volcano underneath the Mississippi Coliseum
Settled 2,900 ft. beneath the city, this extinct volcano is said to be about 70 million years old
Jackson State University
Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, home to the Jackson State Tigers
Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport
Ross R. Barnett Reservoir at Spillway Overlook, Pearl River flowing out
Pearl River winding through Leake County
Carthage-Leake County Airport
Kosciusko-Attala County Airport in Attala County
Grenada Lake Dam in the Yalobusha River
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Enid Lake
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Panola County Airport
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Safari Wild Animal Park in Panola County
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Williams Field in Tate County
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Arriving in Memphis, Tennessee at Barnhart Crane & Rigging
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So many great songs have come from Memphis, yet this one automatically sticks in my mind FedExForum on the right, Mississippi River on the left Orpheum Theater on Beale St Silly Goose, vintage styled lounge on Peabody Pl Memphis Music Hall of Fame (red building) with a statue of young Elvis in the park behind Autozone Park, minor league baseball stadium Civic Center Plaza with Memphis Police Department and the Fire Museum of Memphis Sun Studio, birthplace of Rock 'n Roll, opened by rock-and-roll pioneer Sam Phillips in 1950 https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/z5XhmlJsDSc
Stax Museum of American Soul Music and Elmwood Cemetery dating from 1852 Richardson Oilseed Products, on the way to Graceland Elvis Presley’s Meditation Garden Graceland Mansion, home of Elvis Presley from 1957 to 1977 Graceland with Lisa Marie Airplane, Elvis’s Convair 880 Jet, built in 1958 Landing at General Dewitt Spain Airport Crittenden County Stans Field at Cotton Plant, Arkansas Lonoke County Lonoke Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport at Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas North Little Rock on the Arkansas River William J Clinton Library and Museum next to Heifer Village & Urban Farm First Security Amphitheater Little Rock Downtown area Arkansas State Capitol War Memorial Stadium, hosting Razorback & other college football games, plus special events Kavanaugh Blvd in Hillcrest Historic District Big Dam Bridge at Cook’s Landing Park The longest U.S. pedestrian & bike bridge (4,226 feet), spanning the Arkansas River atop Murray Dam I 430 at Two Rivers Park Bridge, safe to fly under Greers Ferry Lake Landing at Clinton Municipal Airport in Van Buren County https://i.imgur.com/51QW3W3.png Buffalo River in Searcy County Tomahawk Creek in Marion County Misty Meadows on Bull Shoals Lake in Scott Township, Missouri Taking off from Misty Meadows over Bull Shoals Lake Edgewater Beach, Ozark Beach Dam on the right (not visible in game) South Linn Township Arriving in Springfield, Missouri at Conco Quarries Inc Along E Republic Rd Wonders Of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium Robert W. Plaster Stadium at Missouri State University Missouri State University with JQH Arena, home to the Missouri State basketball teams Hammons Field, home of the Springfield Cardinals and Central Bank (tower) Park Central Square Birthplace of Route 66 Roadside Park BNSF yard in Northwest Springfield BNSF Springfield Signal Shop Bona Glade Natural Area on Stockton Lake Wasson Bluff, Hwy 215 crossing the lake Pomme De Terre Dam and Lake, potato lake, why not Lake of the Ozarks Village of Four Season in Camden County Arriving in Jefferson City at the Missouri State Capitol Cole County Circuit Court (building with the tower) Missouri State Penitentiary Museum, showing an old lethal injection machine US District Court Clerk and Missouri State Penitentiary (museum) from the 1800s Columbia Regional Airport Faurot Field and Hearnes Center at the University of Missouri University of Missouri, located in Columbia Boone Quarries at Columbia Cosmopolitan Recreation Area Columbia Cosmopolitan Recreation Area A closer look at the Quarry While it’s starting to rain again https://i.imgur.com/v8fMhG3.png Bradley Airport Above (some of) the clouds on the way to Quincy https://i.imgur.com/2BlWcUW.png Quincy below Quincy is known as Illinois’s “Gem City” https://i.imgur.com/BRiEtJa.png Quincy Rgnl-Baldwin Field One more flight to Mt Sterling Final stop of the day at Brown County Flyers Association Airport Next leg, more of Illinois, fewer hours
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The building behinf the Music Hall of Fame (to the right) is gone, all parking lot
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Elvis Presley, B.B. King and Johnny Cash recorded albums here
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On April 30, 1926 a telegram was sent from Springfield’s Colonial Hotel—demolished in 1997—proposing that the road from Chicago to Los Angeles be named Route 66. It is for this reason that Springfield is recognized as the birthplace of Route 66
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(The tv series, good show, is mostly filmed in Atlanta, Georgia)
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Fun for a rainy day, but that was a long sitting.