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Yesterday was a banner day for me, and today shaped up pretty well, too. I slept in pretty late, took a look at the TAFs and decided I'd probably not rent a plane today, but called Gus anyway, to see if maybe the gliders would be flying at 47N later. Well, nobody else in the club showed up, but his Plan B was to take the "Silver Bullet" for a little spin, and I was invited to tag along again.






Takeoff roll on Runway 25:








The sun was still high at almost 1600 hrs, and the clouds were dropping sunbeams everywhere. Just gorgeous.






Landed at Sky Manor and quickly left again... who can identify those interesting amphibs on the ramp?
     





After giving me a little stick time (during which I did some steeper turns than last time- weee!), Gus got under a cloud and throttled back to about 1900 as the RV4 hitched a ride on a thermal. I don't recall the exact climb rate, but it was pretty impressive
     


I climbed out at the pump back at 47N to get this nice photo: I also hung around later and took some more tpyical-day-at-a-small-airport shots; I'll post them soon.
     



I was also shooting video, and unfortunately missed a moment of taxiing mastery: I walked ahead to the T-hangar, and Gus taxiied 490 briskly down that taxiway to the right, and in one quick motion, looped her around so the tail came to rest on the T-hangar ramp just as you see it here... perfectly positioned for "pushback" into the hangar.
 Very nice, but I had to bust his chops about winding up with the tailwheel 5 inches left of the centerline...
     


Yep... not a bad weekend. And wx permitting, next weekend I'll rent the SP and take Gus for a ride.

The aircraft in the shot were a

Beriev Be-103 Nice set of shot's

YOU ARE SO LUCKY! I ENVY YOU!!!!!

Nice pictures, and yes, those are Beriev 103s

I can well imagine how hard it was for you to endure this kind of weekend !......

........good for you !

The aircraft in the shot were a

Beriev Be-103 Nice set of shot's

Yep; I already knew. The "hangar talk" is that some guy bought several of them, hoping to corner the local market, but they're not selling so well.  Looks like a fun plane, but not sure they're so much fun to operate and maintain... $ $

I can well imagine how hard it was for you to endure this kind of weekend !......

Yes... sigh... well, you know; "stiff upper lip" and all that; someone  must carry the standard, after all...sigh...    :D


It worked out well: I got a total of about 1.75 hrs of very good fun-flying, more than half of it as "sole manipulator", and it only cost me about $400.
Sure, that's over $200/hr, but four hours of bug-smashing in a Cessna, although enjoyable and practical, just can't compare to these two adventures!

........... but four hours of bug-smashing in a Cessna, although enjoyable and practical, just can't compare to these two adventures!

.........No kidding ! ! !

You Lucky S.O.B.!!!

 

Well Sean you certainly had a busy weekend and an enjoyable one buy the looks and sound of things.

This has been a great summer for grass root aviation, the weekends have been wonderful thanks to Mother Nature who loves Bug Smasher Drivers

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Someone had fun!  ;D

You were at Sky Manor!? Bah! I could've been there in 10 minutes on my bike.