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Labor Day 9.6.2010

I labored to get my plane out to A39 - PRA and go FLY!

Took off at 78 degrees OAT for a 77 mile flight. Flew out along the mountains West of Maricopa 2.5 hours of flight time - some airport work at the end with touch and go's just for fun

Pics of the flight

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Memorial Day Weekend - We got a great day of flying in 5.29.2010

Showed up at PRA and was setup by 6:30 am Norm was there and Terrel and his wife flew over from Casa Grande KCGZ and we were off to go play by 6:45 67 degrees out - 2.5 hours of great flying ended with a bunch of touch and goes and playing around the airport.

Pictures of our adventure here

In honor of Memorial day weekend we did fly over the Japanese internment camp and I am thankful for all that has been done by those who serve in the military to allow us this freedom in the good ol USA to freely fly and enjoy our lives.

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Finally after a month of windy weekends where the wind was blowing 20 to 35 mph we finally got a great day to fly - Saturday 5.15.2010. I think every person who owned a flying machine was out this morning.

I was off the ground at 7:15 am it was 65 degrees out with a 3 mph wind from the South. I wanted to go someplace new so I headed East to visit Scott Casler of Hummel Engines who built my 1/2 VW engine. Nice 80 mile round trip flight. My plans were to go South from Scotts and fly around Picacho Peak but it was warming up and the thermal activity was quite active by 9 am so I just headed back to PRA. Finally found some clean air to escape the thermal bumpies at about 3000 ft AGL.

Pictures here

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They gave me Friday 4.2.2010 off from work - And a Good Friday it was!

I listened when my wife Joey told me what to do! Go play with your toys.

Off to PRA after a hardy breakfast burrito with Joey for some flying fun!.

Flying in the middle of the day from 11 am until about 3:30 pm make for an interesting flight as there are lots and lots of VERY active thermals over the farm fields and open spaces in the desert. The strongest points are the transition areas from green to brown. Quite a bumpy ride when you get into the activity but it was interesting to see bumps of 50 to 300 ft altitude gained in just a few seconds without touching anything on the plane.(other than some quick rudder action to get level again)

Total of 3 hours flight time and 110 miles traveled on the GPS.

Pictures here.

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After multiple weekends of rain and wind everything has turned green. Ok it is mostly grasses and weeds but it does not look like brown desert.

Flew 2 hours in beautiful 50 to 65 degrees OAT with a 4 to 6 mph wind. Took off at 9 am.

Pictures here

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Mr. Mo Sheldons Birthday and Arizona Flying Circus Fly-in.

A GREAT day on Saturday 2.6.10 good flying, lots of people and fun! Lots of rain at about 4 am so my airplane got a good bath to start out the year.

Saturday I flew a total of 78 miles. 54 miles from 11:30 1:00 PM on a nice cross country loop then a 26 mile 30 min flight later in the day at 5:00 PM.

Too windy to fly on Sunday about 9 AM the wind kicked up to 15+ mph. Everyone landed and hung out or packed up and headed for home around noon.

Pictures here

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12.30.09 - Last flight of 2009 A nice 1.5 hour flight

Bill Stewart and I went to Rittenhouse Airport for a bit of sightseeing.

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Day after Christmas 12.26.2009 Flying at Phoenix Regional with Bill Stewart. Some good pictures of Bill's trike.

Lots of rock-n-rollin flying through his prop wash to get some of the pictures!

Beautiful day about 45 degrees at 10:30 am. Total flown 60 miles in nice clean air.

Mo Sheldon volunteered his video skills to get some touch and go's and flyby's of the Green Lady showing off her wings.

Low and Slow Air Dancing with the Green Lady

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Friday after Thanksgivin flying sure beats going to the mall shopping

Flew a total of 101 miles 2 hours 49 min total air time! 75º and sunny! some pictures here

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11-14-09 Cold front moved in 55 degrees OAT to fly in and I got 1.5 hours of nice flying and also spent some time with good friends as this was the opening of Mo Sheldons AirParamo shop at Phonenix Regional Airport. Ended the flight with a really good rainstorm! pictures here.

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Copperstate Fly-in Oct 24, 2009

A group of us flew from Phoenix Regional to Casa Grande for the big event.

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I flew for 1.5 hours on 9/27/09 at PRA and at 11:00 AM. it was 100+ degrees I thought summer was never going to end! - no pictures just memories!

The hot streak finally broke! A friend who is also a Weedhopper and Trike pilot, Jackye Renolds came out to visit from North Carolina and she brought the cool weather with her.

We (Terrel & Jackye (2 up) Norm, and myself) flew 10/6/09 and it was 63 degrees when we took off at 8:00 and only 75 degrees when we landed at 9:30 AM. Beautiful day with no wind and clear skies. I logged 57 miles with an avg speed of 42 mph. Picture album here.

Large pictures here. some are 4.5 meg - total of all 109 meg.

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5-17-09 Finally got to fly again. 3 weeks of work in Virginia sure cuts into your flying time

short video of the takeoff. Windy and HOT summer is here! 94 degrees at 8:10 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C1etoNMl7A&feature=channel_page

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Ok it is not flying but it was still Fun - Motown Work Day!

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3/28/09 - Rittenhouse - just playing and having Fun.

Took off at about 10:30 am with an OAT of 65 degrees

Take off - long low run down the runway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dj3pARse2M

Practicing my crop dusting skills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEcVvPtO3pw

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Pictures from the Antique Aricraft Airshow 3-7-09 in Casa Grande AZ.

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February 15, Lake Pleasant AZ.

There really is a nice lake in the middle of the desert NW of Phoenix.

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Mo Sheldons Birthday Fly, eat, and party party!

January - 17 & 18 at MoTown 75 degrees and beautiful

Yup got some good videos of some of the fun!

Floating down the runway - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brd0AVkDqVU

 

 

Start up - Hand Propping the 1/2 VW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpGODmiB2y8

 

 

Take off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJIdkKe9zh4