The Big Helicopter Adventure and excitement on the way home.

Ken bought this little helicopter at a garage sale for two dollars.  Leonard (in the red jacket) said it should run on some 50% nitro fuel I had so we planned on trying it today.

We got it running on the bench without too much trouble, then we decided we should be out in the field to try flying it.  It refused to run out there so we took it back to the bench after getting harassed a little by the peanut gallery.  We didn't have any better luck there, we finally gave up on it and started flying our planes

Our friend Steve used my camera to take most of the pictures at the field today.  He did a great job, I really like the color scheme of his MXS.

I got two flights on the glider today.  The thermals were pretty good, the first flight was thirty minutes and the second was twenty five minutes.  I also flew the P-39 three times, the Corsair four or five, the Turbo Bee twice and the Sebac 342 twice.  It was a little foggy in the morning but cleared off and was really nice in the afternoon.

As we came up the hill to home we could see all these flashing lights ahead and this car on the left with a smashed fender and door.

When we got up to the wreck it turned out that Tierney had gotten rear ended by the pickup that is on the wrecker.  She was waiting to make a left turn into their driveway when she got hit.  The pickup some how managed to hit the car coming down the hill as well before pushing Tierney into the right hand ditch.  This picture is a little blurry because we were moving.  I talked to Bob later and Tierney had developed a head ache and sore neck so Cathy took her to Urgent Care to get checked out.