What did you do with your RV this weekend? Here's my entry to get this round started...
Friday for me is what others might call Sat/Sun due to usual weekend part time sim work, so I thought I’d report a short flight from Thursday (close enough) to start this weekend’s ‘WDYDWYRTW’ thread. A local creek inspection if you will…
A .5 up Denton Creek, a turn SW to join up with Oliver Creek, a short circle of the 1848 Icarian settlement location and back to the field to get back on the computer.
From https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/oliver-creek:
Battery is at EOL (barely started - charging doesn’t make it much better), necessitating a call to Kathy at EarthX post-flight. A new BATT is inbound (should be here in a few days). I’m down until the new battery install (and oil change). Ongoing MX is part of the gig.
Warming up the oil seeing a RV take off. Turned the phone on slo-mo and got the shaky following:
Circling the Icarian settlement. Location. Here are some links if interested. Very few around here know of its existence, or history.
You can see some crosses up against the creek. Those are most likely people who died while traveling the Chisholm Trail, buried before crossing the creek (location) . The owner of the land has these mapped and put the crosses up. There are also small triangles out of view on the right on poles up against the tree line marking the locations of some of the Icarian cabins. Location. Out of view at the bottom are some graves of Icarian settlers.. It’s my understanding the settlement was only occupied for a year. Many/most of the people died. The figures in the field (cows, Cowboys, Indians, wagon) are of cut steel and are some sort of art/tribute/etc.
Cockpit all squared away for the next flight. SteinAir keychain at the ready.
Battery and oil next, then hopefully a short flight in a week or so if the sched allows.
Great airplane. Great hobby. Great people.
v/r,
dr
Friday for me is what others might call Sat/Sun due to usual weekend part time sim work, so I thought I’d report a short flight from Thursday (close enough) to start this weekend’s ‘WDYDWYRTW’ thread. A local creek inspection if you will…
A .5 up Denton Creek, a turn SW to join up with Oliver Creek, a short circle of the 1848 Icarian settlement location and back to the field to get back on the computer.
From https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/oliver-creek:
Battery is at EOL (barely started - charging doesn’t make it much better), necessitating a call to Kathy at EarthX post-flight. A new BATT is inbound (should be here in a few days). I’m down until the new battery install (and oil change). Ongoing MX is part of the gig.
Warming up the oil seeing a RV take off. Turned the phone on slo-mo and got the shaky following:
Circling the Icarian settlement. Location. Here are some links if interested. Very few around here know of its existence, or history.
- https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/icarian-colony
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarians#Denton_County,_Texas
You can see some crosses up against the creek. Those are most likely people who died while traveling the Chisholm Trail, buried before crossing the creek (location) . The owner of the land has these mapped and put the crosses up. There are also small triangles out of view on the right on poles up against the tree line marking the locations of some of the Icarian cabins. Location. Out of view at the bottom are some graves of Icarian settlers.. It’s my understanding the settlement was only occupied for a year. Many/most of the people died. The figures in the field (cows, Cowboys, Indians, wagon) are of cut steel and are some sort of art/tribute/etc.
Cockpit all squared away for the next flight. SteinAir keychain at the ready.
Battery and oil next, then hopefully a short flight in a week or so if the sched allows.
Great airplane. Great hobby. Great people.
v/r,
dr
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in my neighborhood: Point Reyes, Bolinas, and some top secret (no photos) locations. 
