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The Sky is Falling!


Saturday was an unusual day, we thought as Chicken Little did, that the sky was falling.

In reality that meant (ICT) ASOS pronounced the wind to be at 170 and 3 kts. with temperature hovering around 68 degrees. That means right down the runway and the windsock was pointing towards the ground! Hence: the sky was falling. This was not a day to pass up, we needed to do some plain 'ole recreational flying around the patch.

A phone call to Wayne Clevenger put things into action for us to fly together.  The Annual Condition Inspection on Andy's plane was done that morning but he was still hooking up his switches for all the newly installed lights.

Wayne and I flew separately for awhile then joined up for some photography.  Below are those photos taken from my AirBike.

Paul D. Fiebich

Great pictures. Wish I could have been there. Sounds like you had a fun day.

I had work that had to be done on Sat.... and saw the perfect day go by... then when I was able to be at the hangar on Sunday.... 25 mph winds and up.  My day will come and I will be up again.  Good to see that yellow bird fly again

I'm making meaningful progress on both the plane and the boat (both of which got attention today). I intend more of the same tomorrow morning until I have to go to work and teach people how to shoot.

Paul, expect a phone call as I splice into my engine to hook up the Key West. I going to need some guidance I think.

What kind of boat r u building?

Sorry for the slow reply--just saw this.

I'm finishing a Glen-L Zip that I started in the summer of 2011. It's a plans-built 14ft twin cockpit runabout with a 50HP outboard.

How about a picture of the boat??

Slowest reply ever, but here ya go. These are older pics. The boat far more complete now.