Three days of Flying

4-15-2021

We were up fairly early and headed to the flying field to spend a couple of days.  I had everything set up by eleven and started flying, during one of my first flights this eagle joined me.  I landed after a couple of minutes, grabbed the camera and took some pictures of it.  They sure are pretty!

 I flew, charged batteries and watched TV with Vera all day.

There was a nice sunset when I went out to lock the gate.

4-16-2021

It got down to 31 last night, and guess who forgot to put the thermostat on heating.  My cold feet woke me up early, I got up to correct my error and snuggled in for a little more sleep.

I flew the Kitfox about 8:30 for my first flight of the day.  There was lots of dew on the grass, I had to wipe down the plane after shooting a bunch of touch and goes.

Gene, Jim, Leonard and Audrey showed up today.  Notice how the windsock is straight out, it blew like that most of the day.

This is Jim coming in to land with his Sukhoi, a very nice plane that was built by a friend before he passed away.

Leonard has flaps on his Ultra Stick and shot lots of touch and goes.

I had the Walrus (weird name for a glider) along to night fly with. 

I put in two flights with it, this is after the last one.  It shows up pretty good except when it is going away then the lights hardly show up.

This was the sunset today.

4-17-2021

I was up fairly early and flew the Edge 540 from the dewy grass again this morning.

Some different flyers showed up today, Bruce is flying and those are Mike B. planes on the table.

I have seen the jump plane takeoff several times the last couple of days.  Today was the first time I saw any jumpers come down.

It was getting pretty warm so we packed up and left a little earlier than normal.  It always feels good to get home.

It seems the warm weather caused the magnolia to bloom while we were gone.  We didn't notice it for quite awhile, it was after eight when I noticed it and took this picture.  It was a good three days, I got in lots of flying and really enjoyed the evenings kicked back watching the Olympic trials with Vera.  The new radio worked out great providing background music during the day.