{"id":4101,"date":"2016-11-18T16:37:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T00:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.mechadigital.net\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:37:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:37:54","slug":"168-chock-travels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/168-chock-travels\/","title":{"rendered":"#168 Chock Travels"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d pulled the little Cessna 140 up to the self-serve fuel pumps at the Prineville, Oregon, airport.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have a parking brake, so I snatched a set of chocks from a pile at the base of the pump.\u00a0 There was something familiar about that set of chocks.\u00a0 They\u2019d been built by Marvin Benson.<\/h3>\n
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A few of Marvin’s chocks hang on a building near the ramp at Sisters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marvin is Benny Benson\u2019s dad.\u00a0 He has a little woodshop at Benny\u2019s airport in Sisters, Oregon.\u00a0 Marvin specializes in Intarsia.\u00a0 It\u2019s a method of producing somewhat three-dimensional art by joining different types of wood, their natural colors providing separation the way different colors of paint would on a canvas.\u00a0 Every year, Marvin cranks out lots of sets of nice chocks so that all the transient airplanes that flock in from all points can keep from rolling away during our annual Fourth of July Fly-in.<\/h3>\n
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Here’s a chock that goes way back. I found it in a corner of my hangar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This particular pair of chocks hadn\u2019t gone far, but what of others?\u00a0 A guy who stopped by in an airplane destined for a trans-Pacific flight might very well toss in a set.\u00a0 You never know when you may need some and I\u2019ve been known to toss some of Marvin\u2019s chocks in the back of my plane.\u00a0 So it wouldn\u2019t be such a surprise to find<\/h3>\n
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Simikot Airport in Tibet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

some of Marvin\u2019s chocks at Reykjavik.\u00a0 They might show up at London\u2019s Heathrow or Paris\u2019 Le Bourget.\u00a0 If only chocks could talk about the travels they\u2019ve seen.<\/h3>\n

It would probably be quite reasonable to see a battered old Super Cub sitting in the dust of the Simikot airport in Tibet, its wheels kept from rolling by a set of Marvin\u2019s beautifully crafted Sisters Fly-In chocks.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d pulled the little Cessna 140 up to the self-serve fuel pumps at the Prineville, Oregon, airport.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have a parking brake, so I snatched a set of chocks from a pile at the base of the pump.\u00a0 There was something familiar about that set of chocks.\u00a0 They\u2019d been built by Marvin Benson. Marvin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,67,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}