June 24, 2021 - Sentimental Journey Fly-in,
Loch Haven Airport, PA
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Mugsy called me Thursday morning and said, hey, lets fly to the Sentimental Journey Fly-In. Sure. We agreed to meet at Loch Haven Airport, Pennsylvania where the five-day long fly-in takes place.
As you can see, its a gorgeous day. Baltimore city is at left.
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Looking down at Shreveport North and Bermudian Valley grass-strip airports. Can you find them?
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| Looking west at the distinctive tree-covered Pennsylvania ridges. |
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Crossing the last ridge with Loch Haven in the valley beyond.
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On a left downwind for runway 9 right (the grass runway, of course).
Quite a few airplanes are at the fly-in already.
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| Looking east, parked at the Sentimental Journey fly-in. Just by luck, Mugsy came in right behind me. |
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Looking west.
I was amazed at how many planes were here, and the flight activity for a Thursday. There were some food trucks, and a small vendor hall. Most of the time was spent talking to other pilots and looking at planes. In mid-afternoon, Greg Koontz flew a Flying Farmer routine which included landing on a rolling pickup truck, and then there was a flour bomb drop contest. We only flew in for the day, but you can camp by your plane. They have music entertainment at night, and a bar. I might have to spend a night or two here next year.
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A SuperCub with big wheels taxiis by. Sentimental Journey is primarily for Cubs and SuperCubs making the way back to the place where they were born: The Piper Aircraft Company in Loch Haven, Pennsylvania.
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| Nice tail art! |
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Quite a few RVs were on hand.
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| Beautifully polished Luscombe 8A. |
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| An impressive Travel Air 2000. The Travel Airs were produced between 1925 and 1930. About 1,300 were built. |
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| A beautifully polished Cessna 195. |
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A polish job this good deserves another look. I can't even imagine the effort that must go into maintaining the shine on this plane.
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| Camp Bohica has a prime spot in the shade. |
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My old Truck Monkey friend, Tom B., still flying around Delta Delta which looks as good as it did 20 years ago.
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| I chatted with the owner of this polished RV-7A. |
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| Sweet looking Hatz Biplane. These are homebuilt biplanes, built from plans. |
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I'm guessing this is a modified Breezy. This is another homebuilt plane you build from plans.
Designed and constructed by Charles Roloff, Carl Unger, and Bob Liposky, the Breezy was first introduced in 1965, and hailed as one of the most distinctive and unusual homebuilt designs to ever attend an EAA Fly-in. Though there have been a lot other designs, particularly homebuilts, that embody the open cockpit which trademarks a Breezy, nothing can surpass it for the view and fresh air feeling. The original Breezy was designed and built to accept a set of PA-12 wings. For that reason, there are no wing drawings with the plans. It is possible to substitute PA-14, PA-18, or J-3,4, or 5 wings.
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Nice green and white RV-4.
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Classic Stearman in bright U.S. Navy colors.
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| Famous airshow performer and aerobatic instructor Greg Koontz was on hand and did the Flying Farmer route. Here he is headed down at a 45 degree angle, something you don't see every day. |
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| Now Koontz is landing his Cub on a moving pickup truck/aircraft carrier! I've seen this done before at AirVenture but seeing it up close like this was great. |
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| That's Greg Koontz in the overalls shaking hands with the announcer. |
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Richard S. was on hand; here he is taxiing by, and heading home.
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| Winging our way home over the Pennsylvania ridges. |
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| Passing by Harrisburg International Airport (lower left) and the infamous Three Mile Island (center right). |
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| Heading up the Back River towards Essex Skypark. It only took 50 minutes to get home. Fun day. |
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