Catching Up!

Vera has been out taking pictures of flowers again and I really like this one of the geranium Dianne gave us.

Monday was pretty much a do nothing day here, we are still resting up from the weekend.  Tuesday we went flying at Toledo.  I still had the B-36 in the motor home so I put a couple of more flights on it.  I also had not had the Champ out for a long time and it is still a challenge to land and take off smoothly.  I burned up the speed control in the Sukhoi, the warm weather must have gotten to it.

Wednesday I had a dentist appointment to get a filling.  It was an early appointment so I had to skip coffee at the Vault.  The filling only took a half hour, but my jaw was numb for most of the day.  I did some work on changing the speed control in the Sukhoi, a bigger one is going in this time.  I also made some changes to the air flow inside the cowling.

Thursday morning I was on Facebook messaging with Jeff who provided the plane I won.  I had made a comment a couple of days ago about hoping I wouldn't need the trailer to transport the new plane.  Jeff offered to trade it for a smaller one with a motor, it sounded good to me, so when he gets back from vacation we will work something out.  I finished up the Sukhoi, went around the lawn with the string trimmer and then mowed the lawn and trails.  I also charged some batteries for flying on Friday.

Friday morning I went up early so I could mow Mrs. Herren's lawn.  Dan was there flying so we took both mowers over and got finished much faster than normal.  When we got back to the field there was a group of members putting Thompson's Water Seal on the new tables.  When they finished up we started flying.

They were towing a glider up at the Toledo airport today, they came over low enough that I got some pretty good pictures.

They make a surprising amount of wind noise while they are flying.  The Sukhoi flew fine with it's new speed control, in fact the motor runs smoother with this one.  I was racing with Leonard today and we had a midair collision.  When we hit there was a big bunch of white debris, since my Corsair is dark blue and was flying fine afterwards, I orbited around the field up high until Leonard landed.  Then I landed and I couldn't find any damage to the Corsair, only a couple of white marks on the prop.  Leonard lost part of the right wing's trailing edge and about half of the right aileron but was able to land without any problem.  One of Leonard's first comments was "I have been wanting to put flaps on this plane".