September 25, 2010 - Essex Pilots Pancake Breakfast
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Today was a "two-fer" made possible by the RV's speed: have
breakfast with the other Essex Skypark pilots at the Gettysburg Airport
pancake breakfast and then zoom over to a private grass strip near Easton
for my EAA Chapter 571 picnic.
The weather was pretty good. Here is my RV parked at Gettysburg
Airport. |
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EAA Chapter 1041 put on the pancake breakfast. It
was probably the best quality pancake breakfast I have had so far.
Or maybe I was just hungary? They served scrambled eggs, sausage,
home fries and of course pancakes. |
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| The pilots of Essex Skypark. Left
to right: Art, Randy, Tom, Brian. Notice the
round-table like object at center left. It is a rotating griddle
that they cooked the pancakes on. |
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They probably had 20-30 planes on-hand while I was
there. |
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| This recently restored Waco was the
star attraction. It wasn't until I got home and looked at this
picture that I realized this was the same Waco I had seen a few weeks ago
at the Golden Age Air Museum airshow. This plane won the Lindy award
-- very prestigious -- at the 2009 AirVenture and also won a top award at
the 2010 Sun 'N Fun. |
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| I left Gettysburg, made a beeline back
to Essex Skypark, but kept right on going to a private grass strip just
west of Easton called Bloomingdale. We were having our local EAA
Chapter picnic today. George (RV-8) and Dan (Taylorcraft) were
already here. The grass runway has a slight dogleg but it
isn't a problem. |
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| We have a small chapter but most
members were at the picnic. |
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We had some great food. Some combines were working a
nearby wheatfield which was interesting. |
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| Bob arrived in his Quicksilver; he is
building an RV-7. Another chapter member flew the Kitfox in.
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Checking out the airplanes. That's what we do.
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| Bob departing in the Quicksilver.
Bruce R. and Richard S. flew in later in their RV-8s. |
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