October 12, 2024 - Mifflin County EAA Breakfast with Chuck
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| It's the second Saturday of the month. Must be time to go to the monthly EAA Breakfast at Mifflin County airport! Chuck and I got an early start and were soon winging our way past Baltimore. The winds were still on the ground, but at 1,000 feet we were heading into a 30-knot headwind! What the heck!? |
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Chuck took this nice shot of my RV-7 with Charm City (sarc) in the background.
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| Looking over my shoulder at Chuck. |
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Now over the Maryland countryside.
We are just crawling at 130 mph groundspeed.
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| Seeing a little color on the Pennsylvania ridges. |
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About to skim the last ridge. Mifflin County Airport is visible at center right.
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| Looking up the ridge to the east. |
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And to the west.
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| Safe on deck at Mifflin County. Mifflin has a long, wide runway -- 5,000 by 75 -- but not too many turnoffs so we had to roll all the way to the end. |
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| There's always a line at the Mifflin County EAA Breakfast. |
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ZZZ
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| EAA Chapter 518 Volunteers making the sausage. |
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Chuck's about to dig in.
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| Me too! This is no greasy pancake breakfast. Omelets, casseroles, thick bacon, scrapple, sausage, whatever you want. It's impossible to eat some of everything although a couple of men we saw did try. |
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| Watching airplanes takeoff and land while eating your breakfast; what could be better than that? Hey, why are those guys hanging around my plane? Hope they are not from the government. |
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| Pretty good turnout today. |
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| Nice little Aeronca 11AC Chief. |
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A Zenith CH2000, a two-seat, fixed tricycle gear general aviation airplane, used primarily for flight training, that was designed by Chris Heintz -- one of the giants of the kitplanes and homebuilding world. .In 1996, Chris Heintz and Zenair Ltd. obtained FAA type-certification for the Zenith CH 2000, a two-seat low-wing aircraft based on his kit aircraft designs. Aircraft Manufacturing and Design (AMD) manufactured this aircraft as the AMD Alarus CH 2000 up until 2011.
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We enjoyed a righteous tailwind heading home and soon I was over the intersection of I-95 and I-695 (the Baltimore beltway) north of Baltimore. I spent the rest of the day working on the RV-10.
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