August 25, 2009 - Work "Team Building"
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On a beautiful afternoon, my team at work took off for our quarterly
"team building" event. Previous events were bowling, and watching
the Blue Angels from boats. Today would be a combination
boating-aviation event. Location -- Kentmorr marina and
airfield. I flew the RV over to Kentmorr with Bill B. Newman
and J-Mac drove their boats over to the Marina with the others.
Front row L to R: Joe A., Bill B. Newman, yours truly. Back
row L to R: J-Mac, Erika
We had a great lunch of crabs, clams, shrimp, corn on the cob and cole
slawat the marina restaurant. The beer was flowing freely as
well. Except for moi, who had to stick to pink lemonade for obvious
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The Joes and the Bills. |
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| Newman and some homeless guy who was
hanging around. Actually, it's E.D., an honorary member of the
team. |
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The marina is really nice. They have a sandy beach
area, grass and a playground. Here we are with the Chesapeake Bay in
the background. |
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| The two boats. |
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| After lunch, the two boats pulled out
and parked off the end of the grass runway to watch me take off.
Here's J-Mac. |
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| Onboard Newman's boat. About this
time they are saying, where the hell is Cloughley? |
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There he is! |
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This great shot is actually a snapshot off a video that J-Mac took,
zoomed in.
No one on the team had seen the plane before so I gave them a little
demo. |
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He's going vertical ... |
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| What goes up must come down .. |
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| High speed low pass. |
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Low speed low pass.
After the demo, I headed back to Essex Skypark and the boats headed
back to their home marinas. Great day! |
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I didn't take any pictures from the RV so I borrowed these
from a Citabria driver friend who took these Kentmorr pics recently.
This is what Kentmorr looks like coming in to land on 27
to the west.
Kentmorr is an airport community.
Notice the houses on the south side of the runway. |
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| And a view from the eastern side.
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The marina and restaurant are about 100 yards to the south
of the runway. |
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| Looking to the north. The grass
runway is blocked from view by the trees. |
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