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 This week my cousins invited me to stay with them at Nags Head, North Carolina. They rented an efficiency at the Blue Heron Motel. It is on the beach at mile marker 15.5. This is a nice place to stay and I do recommend it. While they enjoyed an entire week there, I was able to make it down on Monday and stayed untill Wednesday.
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 For while now I have been taking flying lessons at Curtis Eads Flight School. On May 5, 2008 it paid off! Well, kind of. I got to fly solo for the first time! I had about 14 hours at this point.
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 My buddy Jim and I have been planning a hike for some time now. After some research and some recommendations by friends, we decided to do the Billy Goat Trail. This trail is located along the beautiful Potomac River in Maryland. Three sections make up this trail for a total of a five mile hike. We chose to hike Section “A”, the longest, at 1.7 miles, and most physically demanding of the three sections. It consists mainly of rock, boulders, and steep precipices.
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 Well gang, I went for my first helicopter ride on Thursday! The bird I flew [in] was a Huges 369E. Huges developed this style of helicopter in the early 1960's as an answer to the US Army's requirement for a light observation helicopter. McDonnell Douglass acquired Hughes in 1984 and continued to build this model and classified it as a MD-500 Series. This Helicopter is equipped with a Alison 250-C20B turbine engine rated at 420shp (shaft horsepower).
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