2014 Flying Seniors Day Recap

Every fall our airport sponsors an event for the nearby retirement community. It’s a really nice deal where they bus between 100 and 150 senior citizens over, and they grill out and serve them in the big hangar while airport residents take anybody who wants to for rides. The airport picks up the fuel bill, […]

2014 Oshkosh Part 2

Part 2 – (I was about to break our hosting software if I continued Part 1 – I won’t bore you with the details) I forgot to mention the night air show and women fly events on the Part 1 page. air launched pyro, what could go wrong? wall of fire Elizabeth and Laurie at the […]

2014 Oshkosh Part 1

Update 1: Congratulations to Andy and Theresa Millin on winning a Bronze Lindy. I’m going to start trying to do more travel reporting now that we’re flying to more interesting locations. First up is Oshkosh, our longest flight to date, and a very significant one. So, without further adieu, Part 1… (continued in Part 2) Thursday July […]

Traveling to Football Camp

My nephew and my brother have been staying with me this week for football camp in Columbus (FBU Top Gun Middleschool Showcase). Columbus is about an hour and a half drive typically, and given all of the folks going to this event, it was taking about 2 hours to get there. The first night went […]

Spring Velocity Visit, 2014 Edition

So, I’m really, really late posting this, but it’s understandable since I just finished my trip to Florida. The Thursday before I left to get my factory flight training my buddy Andy called wanting to fly down for the weekend as we were forecast for great weather. This is what owning airplanes is about, so […]

Flying to breakfast with the Stockman’s

Bill and Terry Stockman’s standard elite fixed now has it’s new Garm G3X panel up and running, so we met them at Urbana’s Grimes field, home of the MERFI fly-in, for breakfast. It’s far enough to be a somewhat interesting flight, a bit over 20 minutes, but close enough to be fairly stress free. I’ll […]