June 16, 2019 - Mid-Atlantic RV Fly-In
Today Mugsy and I headed over to the Seventh Annual Mid-Atlantic Gathering of RV's at Carroll County Airport (KDMW).  I had a passenger, Mark B., who has a hangar on my row A at the Skypark and is should finish his RV-8 this year.  Here we are safe on deck at Carroll County.
   
Mugsy explaining to Mark why he should build a compartment door on his RV-8.
   
A beautiful and newly completed RV-14 taxiis in.
   
Never seen this RV-3 before.  It's a nice one.
   
Bob G. in front of his AirVenture award-winning RV-7.   I met Bob a little under three years ago when I flew up to Arner Memorial Airport in Pennsylvania to give he and his Dad rides in the RV-7.  Bob went ahead and finished his RV-7 and what a job he did.  This is the first time I've seen his plane which I think has been flying a year and a half now.
   
Not only was the workmanship on the airframe amazing, but then there is the paintjob!  Do you know how hard it is to do checkerboard?  Not to mention the fading affect.
   
I like all the open space on the panel.
   
Beautiful plane.
   
Big RV-10.
   
There's that RV-14 again.
   
Very nice.
   
Looking down the flight line.  I estimate maybe 30 RVs flew in.
   
Hot dogs and Brats were to be had at far left.
   
Another look at the flight line.
   
Relatively new -- only a year old - RV-7 based out of Warrenton.
   
I've seen RVs painted like the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines but this is the first Coast Guard paintjob I've seen on an RV.  Nice.
   
I really liked the paint job on this RV-7.
   
And then I started looking at the workmanship and was totally blown away.  Look at the forward lower corner of that sliding canopy!
   
You don't see too many of these Burt Rutan glass canard ships around anymore.
   
Who says taildraggers are harder to land than nose-gear airplanes?  I maintain it is just as easy to bang up a nose-gear plane as a tailwheel plane.
   
We were parked at the end of the ramp.
   
 
   
One of my favorite planes:  the big radial-engine powered Cessna 195.
   
Jim T's RV-8.
   
Glen S. taxiis by in "The Devestator".
   
You don't see too many ultralights at an airport like Carroll County either.  But this isn't really an ultralight.  Maybe a light sport.  But it is fully-equipped, with two seats, and a ballistic parachute on top of the wing.
   
Hot looking Pitts.
   
After the fly-in, Mugsy and Mark/I flew air patrol over the Chesapeake Bay.
   
 
   
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