KirkGrovesRV8
Well Known Member
Hey guys!
Boy I sure hope this does not sound like bragging, but I had a amazing weekend!!!!
I started off Saturday by heading over to New Garden airport to take a PA-20 up for a spin very nice plane, I think it would really work well for us. Then my day became amazing! Just by luck I ran into some real life Barnstormers during the week and set up with them to go for a ride in a T-6G on sat. Well I got to go up with a great pilot and guy and had probably the best time I have had yet in a airplane. I got to sit in the front hole (everyone does) but I was allowed to taxi the plane out, we got to the end of the runway and I hear from Ott (the fella in the back seat) "I got the throttle you fly the plane" OK;-)
And off we go climb at 100mph gear up, and up to 4500' and we go thru some aerobatics
Simple rolls, Barrel rolls, and some loops and cuban 8's. Then I hear "OK I would love to keep flying but we are Bingo Fuel" I say OK if we have too;-)
So I fly the plane into the downwind, and from the back seat comes" Do you think you can land this thing?" I respond with a very mild "I think so" Ott says "OK I got the radio, you fly the plane keep 90mph"
So a nice steady single turn from downwind to base to final, I got 90mph, gear down, the vis over the nose is great on final (from the front seat anyway) over the numbers power off, and that big beautiful bird just rolled right on the runway that oleo gear is sweeeeeeetttttt, kept the tail up and kept my feet moving but that sweet airplane rolled straight ahead, pined the tail down and taxied off the runway. Taxied back to the apron shut the airplane down and I was able to walk away with a .5 of dual and 1 landing in my logbook in a AT-6G.(by the way these guys will be at Rostraver on Tuesday)
WOW and that was just Saturday, then today I was invited to go fishing in the Chesapeake bay with some other pilots. So Queenie and I left Smoketown around 11am and flew the 69nm south to 3W3(Kentmorr airpark) and landed had a amazing crab cake sandwich and then got on a boat and headed out for a great time with some great guys and caught quite a bit of fish, mostly rock fish(stripped sea bass) and blue fish. The captain of the boat cleaned the catch we packed the fish in ice and walked the 100yds back to the airplane left around 6pm and by 7:30pm the fresh catch was on the grill Great fish yum yum yum!
All in all one of my best plane weekends! I hope everyone else is well and I can't wait to tell everyone about my trip to Minn to fly the P-51!
Boy I sure hope this does not sound like bragging, but I had a amazing weekend!!!!
I started off Saturday by heading over to New Garden airport to take a PA-20 up for a spin very nice plane, I think it would really work well for us. Then my day became amazing! Just by luck I ran into some real life Barnstormers during the week and set up with them to go for a ride in a T-6G on sat. Well I got to go up with a great pilot and guy and had probably the best time I have had yet in a airplane. I got to sit in the front hole (everyone does) but I was allowed to taxi the plane out, we got to the end of the runway and I hear from Ott (the fella in the back seat) "I got the throttle you fly the plane" OK;-)
And off we go climb at 100mph gear up, and up to 4500' and we go thru some aerobatics
Simple rolls, Barrel rolls, and some loops and cuban 8's. Then I hear "OK I would love to keep flying but we are Bingo Fuel" I say OK if we have too;-)So I fly the plane into the downwind, and from the back seat comes" Do you think you can land this thing?" I respond with a very mild "I think so" Ott says "OK I got the radio, you fly the plane keep 90mph"
So a nice steady single turn from downwind to base to final, I got 90mph, gear down, the vis over the nose is great on final (from the front seat anyway) over the numbers power off, and that big beautiful bird just rolled right on the runway that oleo gear is sweeeeeeetttttt, kept the tail up and kept my feet moving but that sweet airplane rolled straight ahead, pined the tail down and taxied off the runway. Taxied back to the apron shut the airplane down and I was able to walk away with a .5 of dual and 1 landing in my logbook in a AT-6G.(by the way these guys will be at Rostraver on Tuesday)
WOW and that was just Saturday, then today I was invited to go fishing in the Chesapeake bay with some other pilots. So Queenie and I left Smoketown around 11am and flew the 69nm south to 3W3(Kentmorr airpark) and landed had a amazing crab cake sandwich and then got on a boat and headed out for a great time with some great guys and caught quite a bit of fish, mostly rock fish(stripped sea bass) and blue fish. The captain of the boat cleaned the catch we packed the fish in ice and walked the 100yds back to the airplane left around 6pm and by 7:30pm the fresh catch was on the grill
Great fish yum yum yum!All in all one of my best plane weekends! I hope everyone else is well and I can't wait to tell everyone about my trip to Minn to fly the P-51!
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