Flying

I was up early and headed to the flying field shortly after 7. I had planned on getting breakfast on the road. BK and Subway were not open yet so I ended up stopping at a Chevron Food Mart and got donuts and chocolate milk for an All American breakfast. It was beautiful when I got to the field. Light winds and warm, I flew one flight with the red Cub and discovered a problem. The field had not been mowed, there were 6 inch tall dandelions all over the runway. I got the mower out and started mowing, a little over an hour later I had it done. Then I tried the Eurofighter, same problem the nose wheel was turning and tipping the plane over. I found out this evening that the steering arm was cracked.

Right after my last attempt with the Eurofighter people started showing up. There ended up being 8 of us out there flying.

Everyone had a good day except Rob, first his RV-4 Crashed way out in the field. It is pretty much a total loss.

Then the muffler fell off his Space Walker and it made an off field landing but was not hurt! After that he flew his Triplane and it quit in the air. Rob made a nice dead stick landing with it and discovered the fuel line had came off the tank. Next he flew his helicopter and it quit a couple of times. Some days are like that. I remember one year I crashed a plane a week for seven weeks. I had thought I was ready for a summers flying but I was soon down to one plane. It was pretty warm by 2 and I headed home to work on the Eurofighters nose gear. It looks like the aluminum one I am making will cure the problem. Vera made Cocoa Mounds this evening and are they ever good!