Alder Lake Flying

We were up at 6 this morning and headed for Alder Lake for some seaplane flying. We made good time and were the first ones there. People and the boat started showing up shortly after we got there. The weather wasn't the best, cool and a pretty good breeze, but we flew regardless.

There were 13 of us before long, and a pretty good selection of planes. I had the only electric planes there.

These are Gene's planes, he provides the rescue boat.

This is a brand new plane getting ready for it's first flight. He was a little nervous, but it went great.

Some of the planes were pretty big. This one with all the wires took a couple of hours to get going. Then he had some motor trouble (old fuel) and Gene had to rescue it with his boat. After changing fuel, it flew fine. Other that a couple of engines quitting, the rescue boat was not needed as there were no crashes today.

After the flying was done we stopped at Mayfield Dam and watched the fishermen while having dinner. Then it was on to home where a surprise awaited, my new radio had been delivered. I spent some time playing with it before I came in to write this.