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December 6th, 2006, 12:17
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: KC
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|  decided I'd get engaged... Took a while to get around to posting this. My dear boyfriend proposed to me on Thanksgiving night, which was also my birthday. He's a pilot as well, and it happened while flying back from having dinner with his family. We had left KSGF and dropped off his mother at the Warrensburg, MO airport and were enroute to MKC. He asked if I wanted to call up Approach and cancel IFR, so we could circle the Plaza a couple times since the lights had just been turned on that night. (I do Plaza scenic flights so it's not a big deal, but ok, it was a nice evening...) So then it happened. He proposed to me in the A36 while circling over the Plaza. Then he showed his ability to handle distractions by landing at MKC 5 minutes later in a stiff crosswind, no landing or taxi light (both having conveniently gone out while taxiing in Warrensburg) and with me hanging off of him bawling. Well done, Jim! Anyways, here's to a lifetime of cockpit arguments!  Sarah |
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December 6th, 2006, 12:29
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Utah
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  | Re: decided I'd get engaged... Awww! So sweet! Congratulations! I hope you have a beautiful wedding and happy life together! |
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December 6th, 2006, 12:44
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| Big Chief's Woman  | Re: decided I'd get engaged... Congratulations Sarah!! did you set a date? |
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December 6th, 2006, 12:46
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| Agent Smith  | Re: decided I'd get engaged... Congrats SBE! Same guy who was at the NYE party?
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December 6th, 2006, 12:52
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| Moderator  Join Date: May 2003 Location: GRR
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... Excellent! Best Wishes!
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December 6th, 2006, 13:07
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2005 Location: California, USA
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|  Re: decided I'd get engaged... Congrats that's excellent news!! |
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December 6th, 2006, 13:16
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Warrensburg, MO/ KC, MO
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... Congratulations on the great news! Taxing at Skyhaven can be a little tricky without lights because it is so dark out there.
__________________ "Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you may miss it." |
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December 6th, 2006, 14:01
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: KC
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... Thanks guys! The date is June 23rd of next year. So yes we went right into planning this deal. Yes Doug, it's the guy from the NYE party.  We are being total aviation geeks, and getting married on an airplane...and we're having the reception in a large hangar yet-to-be-determined, it's going to be styled like a WWII/USO hangar dance complete with large swing band (already determined  ).cmsu - you are right on that. Those reflective taxiway markers don't exactly work well when there is nothing to reflect. Luckily they went out when we had almost made the runway, and they flickered sporadically enough to let us make it the rest of the way. The plane had just come out of annual/engine overhaul and they'd done some work on the nosegear - it was all a wiring issue. Sarah |
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December 6th, 2006, 15:57
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Los Angeles soon to be phx
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... hey congrats best of luck to the both of you. that sounds cool about where you are getting married. i guess that means it will be a small wedding. |
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December 6th, 2006, 16:28
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... Congrats!!! and the plans so far sound awesome |
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December 6th, 2006, 16:49
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Frigid NWA Hub
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... Congratulations!
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December 6th, 2006, 17:22
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: KEWR (by way of Brooklyn, NY)
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... Congratulations!!!
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December 6th, 2006, 18:35
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Albemarle, NC
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... Congratulations to both of you!
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December 6th, 2006, 18:35
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... congrats!!
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December 6th, 2006, 18:41
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| Old Skool Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Winchestertonfieldville
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... Way to think it through... Naw, congrats!
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December 6th, 2006, 19:12
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| Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Boston, MA
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... if only all of us could find a woman that wants to be wed in an airlplane! and a ww2 theme reception ahhhhbest of luck congrats! |
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December 6th, 2006, 22:54
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| Old Skool Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Utah
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... That sounds really special! What size plane/how many people will be able to watch? Do you know what you are going to wear? |
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December 6th, 2006, 23:48
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Chicago, IL
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... Congrats Sarah!
__________________ Tough times do not last. Tough people do. |
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December 7th, 2006, 00:12
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: DFW, based in ONT, wishing I was in Maine
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... That's Awesome Sarah! Congrats! Bob
__________________ My head is in the clouds and my heart is still in Maine... but my devotion and love belong to my wife and children. Pics! |
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December 7th, 2006, 02:21
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| Big Chief's Woman | Re: decided I'd get engaged... Quote:
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December 7th, 2006, 08:45
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: KC
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... TheWife - we are most likely going to charter a King Air or PC12. It sounds extravagant, but when you consider that we are not doing a church wedding, due to the plan will also have no wedding party, will have no rehearsal dinner, and our reception site will be very low cost, it's not a big deal! (plus the charter will be for a very short amount of time.) So, we will only have room for 8 most likely. It will just be the two of us, our mothers (they are both widows) the officiant and the photographer most likely. In using a hangar for the reception we can just taxi up to the reception! I am making some calls today about getting a hangar. Fingers crossed. Luckily there are lots of airports in the metro area with large hangars so I know we'll find something. Starting with MKC first, especially since we can charter right out of there as well. Kristie, I am trying to decide if I want to go 'retro' with my hair and makeup. My dress is floor length and slinky - no pouf - so it makes for ease in getting on and off the plane as well as dancing! I am wearing opera length gloves and a birdcage veil so that will give a retro look, though I'll lose both at the reception. I just did a prelim. design on the invites and such and they have a subtle aviation feel to them as well without being hokey. It's fun doing something different! Sarah |
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December 7th, 2006, 13:01
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: LAS - the northern part
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| Re: decided I'd get engaged... Congratulations, Sarah! I love the idea of an aviation-themed wedding...good luck with all the planning. |
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December 7th, 2006, 13:06
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| Old Skool  | Re: decided I'd get engaged... SWEET!! did the proposal include the ring and everything? I'd be worried about droppin it and having to fish around for 20 minutes!
__________________ Charter Member - JC Pilot Motion Picture Society (JC PiMPS) "There needs to be more drinking here on JC. We need more ******* partying!" -Doug Taylor |
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December 7th, 2006, 13:30
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| Moderator  Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: The Looney Bin
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 | Re: decided I'd get engaged... That's very cool! A big congrats to you both
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December 7th, 2006, 14:49
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: KPHX, KFFZ, KIWA
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 | Re: decided I'd get engaged... SBE & bf (future husband ) were at the NYE party??? Or did they leave before I arrived...late? And congrads on your nuptials! |
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