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This highly modified 300 HP
1958 J Model Bonanza with tip tanks transports its
owner/pilot to his day job as an anesthesiologist at various
hospitals and clinics in the state of Washington. Leaving his
own strip,
WN18, from his home on
Anacortes,
WA, each morning, the doctor flies to work generally
in less time than it takes to drive to Seattle.
Anacortes, on Fidalgo Island, is homeport to the San Juan
Islands and is situated in the Pacific halfway between Seattle
and Vancouver, BC. WN18 is a never-ending adventure: 50 X 1900
with 100 foot tall evergreens on all four sides and is in the
Microsoft Flight Simulator database, if you want to try it.
When you mouse over the Bonanza picture, you will see Mt. Baker.
The picture was taken from the plane at 8,500 and beautifully
captures the majesty of the Mt. Baker volcano in the northern
Cascade chain. The second (to Mt. St. Helens) most active
volcano in the Cascade chain,
Mt. Baker is also one of the snowiest places on earth,
recording a world record 95 feet of snow in 1999. In fact, the
volume of snow and ice on Mount Baker is greater than that of
all the other Cascades volcanoes (except Rainier) combined. The
10,788 foot mountain can be seen from Seattle to the south and
Victoria and Vancouver to the North.
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