Mowing and Flying

At the club meeting Tuesday night, I learned the club mower was broken.  I wanted to come down to Goble and fly today, so I loaded up our mower on the trailer.  After unloading a couple of planes, I mowed the runway and pit area.

Here I am getting ready for my first flight of the day, I ended up flying 16 flights today.

Next up was the F-4, the prime reason for mowing as it does not have very big wheels.

The F-15 got a good work out today, it was fairly inexpensive but I sure have lots of fun with it.

This is some of the planes I flew today.

I have been flying the Trex 500 quite a bit lately and I am starting to feel really comfortable with it.

I love my new shirt!

I was sure surprised on the second flight of the F-4 when the landing gear tore out during what looked like a nice landing.  I hadn't built the plane so I didn't know there was only a couple of small pieces of plywood in there that were mounted to styrofoam.  I will probably build new wings for it with the landing gear tied into spars.

As we got to Castle Rock, I had to pull over and take a picture of the beautiful sunset, a nice end to a great day of flying.