September 26, 2004 - Golden Age Air Museum Fly-In
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On Sunday, Maggie and I flew to the Golden Age Air Museum Fly-In located
at Grimes Airfield about 30 miles North of Lancaster, PA.
The weather was overcast and dismal when we took off from Essex Skypark
but I thought we might as well give it a shot. The weather gradually improved
until we go into southeastern Pennsylvania where it turned into a beautiful
day.
That's a giant corn maze down below. I believe it's right next to the
Strasburg railroad, although it's hard to see the tracks in this picture.
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Southeastern Pennsylvania is some scenic country, let
me tell you. This is a shot out my left window.
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| This is a shot out the right window.
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| The view straight ahead. It doesn't
really get any better than this. |
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| At the fly-in. You can see the Citabria
between the two planes in the foreground. Grimes Airfield has a long, wide
grass runway. The Citabria loves grass runways. |
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| Unfortuantely, there were only about
15 planes at the fly-in. Perhaps it was because the weather was so poor
down south. They had a food stand where you could buy burgers, hot dogs
and fries. |
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| A Fleet biplane owned by my friend
Andrew King. Andrew is a master builder. He built a Ryan mailplane from
scratch. The workmanship was unbelievable. |
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| A mint Pietenpaul. |
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| A Great Lakes. |
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| A Breezy and it's well-named. Sort
of like a super-sized Kolb UltraStar. Maggie actually wanted to go for a
ride. |
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| A Monocoupe. |
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| After we left the fly-in, I gave
the digital camera to Maggie. Big mistake. She knows how to use it. |
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| We climbed up to 5,500 feet where
there were a lot of nice, big cumulous clouds. Oh yeah. Can you say "cloud
surfing". |
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| Flying the Citabria! |
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| We're having fun in back, too! |
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| Cloud. |
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