September 24, 2022 - Triple Tree Fly-In Part Two
They had built a new pilot lounge building in the south area since the last time I ws here.  It was nice, with comfortable sofas and seats you could relax in.  You could charge your electronic devices here.  You could even play flight simulators.
   
A briefing room was on the north side of the Aerodrome.  It was decorated with all these radio-controlled planes as shown.  They had a number of presentations.  I went to three:  the one below on aircraft engine maintenance, one on the vintage airplane association and another on weather.
   
A neat model of the Spirit of St. Louis sans skin.
   
Nice paint scheme on this RC plane.
   
Another neat model of a Curtiss Jenny, minus skin.
   
A P-38 Lightning comes straight on.
   
Learning about the weather east of the Mississippi.
   
Next to the briefing room was this neat flight simulator room that the youngsters loved.
   
We spent Saturday checking out the workshops.  Here, a Lycoming O-320 runs on an engine stand.
   
Nhu-an and Rich getting the gouge from an avionics professional.
   
 
   
I talked quite a bit with the gentleman on the left.  I learned all sorts of stuff about aircraft tires and tubes.  Then it turns out he was an old Navy man like myself.  He was a tin-can sailor and had a great anti-sbumarine warfare (ASW) story.
   
I learned new things at each station.  You never stop learning in aviation.
   
I walked around the main hangar or as I like to call it, the Mancave.
 
I've always loved Triple Tree's beautiful Spartan Executive.
   
It is immaculate.
   
Another museum quality airplane; an Aeronca Chief sits in the corner.
   
Nice 1963 Mooney M20E.
   
Also in the Mancave were pictures and momentoes of Triple Tree history.  Here's a photo of the founder, Pat Hartness, standing on the Triple Tree logo that
   

Aerial photo used for planning purposes when designing the Triple Tree Aerodrome.
   
Joe Nall was appointed by President Reagan to be on the National Transportation Safety Board.  Joe Nall Week at Triple Tree Aerodrome is the premier radio-control event in the world.
   

 

This hangar was obviously where construction and maintenance was done on the radio-controlled planes.
   
 
   

A workshop on riveting was in the RC maintenance hangar.
   
Looking south down the runway which looks like a high-end golf fairway at the north end.  Notice all the planes parked at left this Saturday afternoon.  A lot of planes flew in for the  day today.
   
 
   
A plane taking off!
   
A nice-looking Thorp T-18, a two-place, all-metal, plans-built, homebuilt aircraft designed in 1963 by John Thorp.
   
My campsite on RV row.
   
The Super Chipmunk takes off and blows some smoke.
   
A couple of Trikes flew in.
   
A big, bad Cessna 195 taxiis by.
   
An RV-6A rotates for takeoff.
   
An all-red Swift taxiis by.
   
A pretty little Luscombe taxiis by.
   
A Swift followed by an RV.
   
There goes the 195!
   
And the RV-7A.
   
Classy looking RV-7 with purple-blue leading edges.
   
A couple of Ultralights approaching.
   
Here comes a Trike.
   
The two Ultralights were the only planes to make a formation takeoff.
   
Another sweet-looking 195 approaches.
   
The two Triple Tree school buses passing in the night (except it's daytime).
   
The 195 taking off.
   
A Panzl S330 aerobatic plane.
   

There he goes!  That's some awesome smoke.
   
He's going vertical!
   
An RV-4 with a very nice paint job.
   
Some kind of a STOL bird.
   
There goes the RV-4.
   
The CJs always have a colorful paint job.
 
Tonight's dinner was Triple Tree’s World Famous BBQ.  There was karioke in the outdoor pavilion but most people stood around the bonfire in the steel fire-globe.
 
 
   
 
   
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