Flying in the Rain

A little rain and fog has never stopped us from flying before and it didn't today.  The lights on the Super Cub were sure showing up nicely!  It did not look good for us having our Fly-In/Swap Meet/Picnic today when we got there, but then out of town flyers started showing up and I posted on our forum that we were flying.  Pretty soon, we had 26 people there.  I managed to sell one plane and found out about another swap meet coming up in November.

I got a couple of more flights on the new Champ, Dick sat his small Champ on mine and took this picture.  They are both great flying airplanes.

After lunch, I go the F-4 out, it is a pretty big job getting it ready to fly.

This flight was much easier than the first one, but I was still nervous.  I had the doors fixed and the wheels went all the way up, so I got a GPS data logger readout of 136 MPH today.  When I pull up after those speed runs it seems to climb forever, I ended up pulling the power off and doing a split esse every time.  I really tested the nose gear wheels, I landed a little hot and just barely got it stopped before the end of the runway and they stayed on.  Things started to wind down after that, I visited with a couple of visitors, and started loading.  Vera and I had a nice peaceful ride home, only seeing a half dozen other cars on old highway.  After we took care of the left over food, we settled in for the night.  Vera had made one of the cakes for the fly in where you mix a cake mix with crushed pineapple and bake it.  It turned out great and so far I have had two pieces of what was left.  There is one more piece left, but it may not survive until bedtime.