
This photo of the early lineup in front of Bill Vandersande's hangar
shows (L to R) Bill, Ernie Buenting, Tim Lucero, Mike Harms and Ben
Favrholdt. |
 This has got to be some kind of
a record for WAMM -- three generations of the Favrholdt family were in
attendance. |
 Garry Gramman stands in front
of Tony Terrigno, Ernie Buenting, Bill Vandersande, Dennis Vest, Jeff Palmer and
Tim Lucero. It was 92 degrees in Bill's hangar. |
 Garry Gramman takes 119C for a stroll,
showing how light these airplanes are. |
 Ben Favrholdt points out the
left aileron movement on 66MX to his grand-nephew, Kai. |
 Tony Terrigno sits in Mike Harms'
201MM while Mike and Garry Gramman look in. |
 Mike Harms flew his big C-55 Mite,
201MM, instead of his LA to this year's fly-in. |
 Dennis Vest of Fort Bragg, CA
is the new owner of 4154 and a first-time visitor to the
Porterville.gathering. |
 An unfamiliar airplane, in this case Dennis
Vest's 4154, always stirs a lot of interest. |
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Eight Mites, twelve Mite owners, and at
least eight Mite enthusiasts attended. Not all are shown here.
(L to R):
Cullen O'Brien, Jeff Palmer, Bill O'Brien, Ben Favrholdt, David
Favrholdt, Kai Favrholdt, Garry Gramman, Ernie Buenting, Tony Terrigno, Bill
Vandersande, Tim Lucero, Denver Jacobson, Craig Ortet, Gil Gilbert.
(Missing: Norm Douthit, Dennis Vest, Allen McInnish, Dave
Rutherford) |
 Long-time WAMM member Ernie
Buenting of Upland, CA sits on the wing of his plane. |
 Bill O'Brien and his son Cullen
came from Watsonville in their rare Mooney M-10 Cadet. |
 Tim Lucero, Ernie Buenting and Mike
Harms discuss the fine points of Mike's Garmin GPS. |
 Once the WAMM honcho and Mite owner,
Tony Terrigno came in his beautiful Pacer. |
 Gil
Gilbert unloads his Piper Arrow while David and Kai Favrholdt look on. Gil flew
three of us down from Bellingham,WA. |
 Tim Lucero in 325M scoots away
over one of the many orange groves in Porterville. |

Garry Gramman in 119C. |
 Michael
Harms in 201MM. |
 Ernie Buenting in 496M. |
 Ernie Buenting again. |
 Ben
in 66MX and Garry in 119C peel off over Porterville. |
 Bill Vandersande in 4105. |
 Mite enthusiast Allen McInnish sits on
the wing of 210MM. |
 Bill Vandersande and Ben
Favrholdt looking on while Michael Harms looks in. |
 Dennis Vest does a low pass over the
grass in N4154. |
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Tim, Ernie and Tony waiting for Jack Lucy's
barbecued beef to be served. |
Michael Harms, Ben Favrholdt and Dave Rutherford. |
Tony Terrigno at the controls of his Piper
Pacer which acted very capably as the platform for the aerial photography. |