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Yes, its the 43rd annual Horn Point Antique Fly-in! On
a perfect aviation weather day.
I got an early start, flew across the bay and
circled over Denton for a few minutes waiting for MIke in his
RV-4. He joined up and we flew down the Choptank River to
Cambridge Airport. After a big breakfast in the airport
restaurant, we took off and did some formation practice over some
scattered clouds, green fields and the Choptank River. Even
though it was the two of us, all of our rejoins were to the
"outside" and we both got some valuable practice. Then it was just a short flight over to Horn Point, which
is a grass strip formerly owned by the Dupont family and now owned by the
University of Maryland. The field is only used once a year for this
fly-in.
The RVs always get a lot of attention. |
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Mike cleaning the bugs off his
4. |
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| Mke talking with
another RV-4 driver. |
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Richard S. taxiiing in. |
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| I havn't seen this
polished RV- 4 before. |
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| Frank W. flies this
RV-8 out of New Garden. |
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| An immaculate PA-22
Piper Pacer. |
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What a panel! |
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| Two big
Stearmans. |
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Two Cessna 195s. The one on the
right was built in 1952. |
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| Lots of folks were
just checking out airplanes. |
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| There were even a
few classic cars. |
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| The white Kitfox
belongs to Ray from my EAA Chapter. He and I are hitting all
the fly-ins this year. |
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Another nice looking
Kitfox. |
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| This rare Luscombe
T-8F Silvaire had its tailwheel collapse. The pilot received a lot
of help and within an hour or two the Luscombe was fixed. |
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Really a beautiful
airplane. |
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| A couple of guys
from my EAA Chapter were fly-in judges. Here they are judging the
Luscombe. |
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| Mike checking out
an Adventura amphibian. |
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This is the first plans built Woody Pusher. It was built in 1966
and restored in 2005. I like how the fuel tank doubles as an engine
fairing.
Even though I thought the turnout was a little light considering the
good weather, I did enjoy the fly-in.
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Mike and I left Horn Point and headed
back to Essex. The next order of business was to give Mike his
first right in one of the great planes of all time: the Piper
Cub.
I havn't flown the Cub in awhile so I
took it around the patch first by myself. |
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| Mike looks like
he's having fun. |
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The Cub isn't noisy like the RV, but I
am wearing foamy earplugs. |
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| The view from the
front seat. |
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| While Mike was
flying from the front seat, I took some scenary photos. |
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| Sparrows Point with
the Key Bridge in the background. |
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Everybody was outside on this nice
spring day. |
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| A good shot of Fort
Howard with Sparrows Point in the background. There's actually a lot
of history surrounding this piece of land formerly known as North
Point. |
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Miller's Island which isn't really an
island. |
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| The boats are
starting to show up off Hart-Miller
Island State Park now that we're starting to get some nice
weather. |
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| Rocky Point golf
course where this guy I know once landed an ultralight on a Par 3 because
of an engine out. |
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| Mike liked flying
in the Cub but it's not so bad to have an RV to fly back home in. |
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