chrispratt
Well Known Member
What better way to spend a beautiful Monday than some formation flying on the way to get barbecue. I have a friend visiting from Thailand and wanted to introduce him to the RV world and create a ?Kodak Moment? (as they used to say when Kodak was still around).
I bribed my friend Danny King (RV-8 Beautiful Doll) to fly formation with the offer of free barbecue from The Hard 8 in Stephenville, Texas. It was a tough negotiation but he finally caved . My wife ? the photographer - sat in back of Danny?s -8 while I took our friend with me.
Danny led on the flight to Stephenville (KSEP)
Ready for takeoff from Aero valley (52F)
Beautiful Doll - can't believe it's been flying almost 20 years and still looks so good. Danny keeps it immaculate.
Looks even better from close up.
Getting ready for my close-up.
The Hard 8 was ready...
...and so were we.
I led on the way home to Aero Valley (52F)
Our friend Anthony from Thailand loved the flight. I think I see an RV-grin.
A clean belly -- how'd that happen?
If you are building an RV - this is meant as inspiration. It really is worth the effort. And somehow the barbecue tastes better when you fly to get it.
Chris
P.S. I would have posted these Monday but I have discovered that the new iPhone iOS defaults to a new file format called .HEIC which no one but Apple uses. Thanks for telling us Apple (sarcasm). I use SmugMug for forum postings because it?s so easy, but SmugMug won?t accept .HEIC files (apparently no one else will either). I now have a free app that will convert .HEIC to JPG. Just in case you have an iPhone you might want to download the HEIC Converter app.
I bribed my friend Danny King (RV-8 Beautiful Doll) to fly formation with the offer of free barbecue from The Hard 8 in Stephenville, Texas. It was a tough negotiation but he finally caved . My wife ? the photographer - sat in back of Danny?s -8 while I took our friend with me.
Danny led on the flight to Stephenville (KSEP)
Ready for takeoff from Aero valley (52F)
Beautiful Doll - can't believe it's been flying almost 20 years and still looks so good. Danny keeps it immaculate.
Looks even better from close up.
Getting ready for my close-up.
The Hard 8 was ready...
...and so were we.
I led on the way home to Aero Valley (52F)
Our friend Anthony from Thailand loved the flight. I think I see an RV-grin.
A clean belly -- how'd that happen?
If you are building an RV - this is meant as inspiration. It really is worth the effort. And somehow the barbecue tastes better when you fly to get it.
Chris
P.S. I would have posted these Monday but I have discovered that the new iPhone iOS defaults to a new file format called .HEIC which no one but Apple uses. Thanks for telling us Apple (sarcasm). I use SmugMug for forum postings because it?s so easy, but SmugMug won?t accept .HEIC files (apparently no one else will either). I now have a free app that will convert .HEIC to JPG. Just in case you have an iPhone you might want to download the HEIC Converter app.