petehowell
Well Known Member
Today was a perfect cool, crisp autumn day in Minnesota, and Kate and I had a destination! Doug Weiler, RV Club President, CFI to the stars(and flunkies like me), and all around great guy, retired from his job driving 757's for NWA a few weeks ago. Today was his retirement party at Lake Elmo.
We launched about noon and leaded north to see if we could pick up some fall colors. We wandered up the St. Croix river with soon to be -7A driver Bernie Weiss and his wife Debbie flying high and behind in their Bonanza. Alex and Gerry Peterson soon joined the fun in their -6A. Kate manned (girled?) the camera while I flew low and slow over the valley. The colors soon began to show....
The colors confirmed, we flew some loose formation with Alex and Bernie on the way to Lake Elmo. Gerry Peterson snapped this pic of Kate allegedly having a pretty good time.
Off to the Party and some 757 cake - this may be the real reason Kate came along......
We met lots of nice people at the party, here I check out new buddy Rachel out in the -9A cockpit. After about 10 seconds, she told her dad to build one!
Continued........
We launched about noon and leaded north to see if we could pick up some fall colors. We wandered up the St. Croix river with soon to be -7A driver Bernie Weiss and his wife Debbie flying high and behind in their Bonanza. Alex and Gerry Peterson soon joined the fun in their -6A. Kate manned (girled?) the camera while I flew low and slow over the valley. The colors soon began to show....
The colors confirmed, we flew some loose formation with Alex and Bernie on the way to Lake Elmo. Gerry Peterson snapped this pic of Kate allegedly having a pretty good time.
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Off to the Party and some 757 cake - this may be the real reason Kate came along......
We met lots of nice people at the party, here I check out new buddy Rachel out in the -9A cockpit. After about 10 seconds, she told her dad to build one!
Continued........
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