Weasel
Well Known Member
Well today is the day 1 year latter from the first flight for the "School Bus".
It now has over 290 hrs on it.
Man it seems like yesterday that I was privileged with riding into the air for the first time after 22 months of hard work.
Through the 1st year there are a lot of memories that we were able to make.
The long cross country flights really make you appreciate usefulness of these little airplanes.
I will list a few here for motivation to the builders.
1. Left around 8:30 local in central Mississippi went to Harrisonburg, VA. stopped for a few minutes and had a burger and coke at the restaurant on the Field left there and went to a small airport on the outskirts of Canton, OH. Looked at a C-172 for a friend and flew it around the pattern, then left Canton, OH and flew back home to Mississippi and was home by 6:00PM local.
2. Left home went to Lake City, TN - to Sturgis, MI - to Kokomo, IN - to Lake City, TN all in 1 day (actually more like 10 hrs including stops)
The long flights are fun but also there were the fun short hops to local grass strip fly-ins that were great.
Sooooo what was your first year like?
It now has over 290 hrs on it.
Man it seems like yesterday that I was privileged with riding into the air for the first time after 22 months of hard work.
Through the 1st year there are a lot of memories that we were able to make.
The long cross country flights really make you appreciate usefulness of these little airplanes.
I will list a few here for motivation to the builders.
1. Left around 8:30 local in central Mississippi went to Harrisonburg, VA. stopped for a few minutes and had a burger and coke at the restaurant on the Field left there and went to a small airport on the outskirts of Canton, OH. Looked at a C-172 for a friend and flew it around the pattern, then left Canton, OH and flew back home to Mississippi and was home by 6:00PM local.
2. Left home went to Lake City, TN - to Sturgis, MI - to Kokomo, IN - to Lake City, TN all in 1 day (actually more like 10 hrs including stops)
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The long flights are fun but also there were the fun short hops to local grass strip fly-ins that were great.
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Sooooo what was your first year like?