High Sierra Fly-in
Picked up a buddy in Chattanooga and flew to just north of Reno to attend the fly-in. What an event. It was a scene out of Mad Max. Onewheel gangs, random dirt bikes getting after it at 2am, propane tank explosions, planes getting bent.... it was serious. As with any aviation event you go for the planes and you end up enjoying the people. Yukon Neil left his RV-8 at home and flew his Murphy in. He brought EVERYTHING you could imagine inside it. We ate like kings and enjoyed the comradery. The dust was a force to be reckoned with though. I used painters tape to seal the RV-10 but my lungs still got to breath it in. It was the consistency of airborne baby powder. The RV-15 flew in with Axel and Greg brought the RV-14 from the Mother Ship.
328 hours to go to the ATP 1,500. 177 hours flown in the prior 10 weeks.
Early departure from the field on Saturday before the cross continent flight home.
Thanks to Neil and his Yukon I was able to preheat my Phillips 100AD oil to operating temp. Water froze outside the tent. It got real cold at night for this Florida boy.
Here is something an RV can't do well. Double as a table for cooking and eating. The Yukon is a beast.
RV-15 looking proud.
A screen shot of a video I took of the fire "event". This was a Ford F-350 pulling a gooseneck camper that had hot air balloon equipment inside. NO one was injured.
This video:
https://youtu.be/dz0uU3l5W5E
It burned for a good while before the fire department showed up. I've never seen a fire so hot. Some type of metal caught fire and sent embers into the air like a sparkler. It was a glowing white light.
Was told by the event coordinator that this Cub was flown by a "professional pilot" and got caught in the wake of another Cub before it went down in the lake bed a few miles from the flight line. No one was killed although the medivac helicopter took a young lady away.
One of the more interesting vehicles.