February 11, 2022 - Test Flight Eastern Shore
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| The plane has been down for a couple of months -- an electronic ignition issue and a cylinder number three issue. It's finally all fixed so it's time for a test flight. The first test flight was a few times around the pattern, then land to check for leaks. On the second test flight I crossed the bay to let her run. I had to since I was breaking in a new, used cylinder. I was running at 25 squared. There was a pretty good tailwind at 2,000 feet heading north-northeast because I looked down and my ground speed was 234 mph! |
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I normally use my Canon Digital Rebel for air to ground shots but all I had was my smartphone today. I was surprised by how good the pictures came out.
This is a shot of Suicide Bridge Restaurant on Cabin Creek, which offshoots to the east off the Choptank River. Our family ate there once; nice place.
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| Looking south at the Blackwater Swamp area. |
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Lots of rivers, creeks and waterways down there.
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| I saw the smoke and decided to investigate. |
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| Pretty good fire down there. You can see the areas that have already been burnt out. I wonder if this is a controlled burn? Don't worry, by late spring it will all be green. |
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| Lot of burned areas this year. |
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Blue areas (water), green areas (evergreen trees), brown areas (dead marsh grass), black areas (burnt marsh grass), gray areas (trees with no leaves).
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| Looking down at Cambridge Airport. We were shocked when our favorite on-the-field restaurant, Katie's, closed at the end of January with two weeks notice. Here's the story: link. Sad. We've lost a number of on-field restaurants the last few years -- Ocean City, NJ, Chester-County, Smoketown, and now Cambridge. |
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I stopped in at Bay Bridge Airport to refuel.
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| I chatted with the owner of this nice RV-9. |
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| My picture doesn't show it but this plane's tires are all flat. Never a good sign. |
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| Some kind of mansion turned special events center up by the Sassafras River. |
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| Fields outlined by a thick fence of trees. |
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