Tuesday, October 27, 2015

As Bob Dylan said, "the times they are achangin' "

As you can plainly see not much has been done to the Breezy. It still grabs my attention occasionally but mostly sits there wishing to be worked on. I've bought some fun airplanes over the last year that have taken my spare time. Not that the C210 wasn't fun but we mostly used it to go see Austin in Nashville and it was very utilitarian. About a year ago I bought a Helio Courier from a gentleman in California and have been playing with it. This is an amazing airplane with it's leading edge slats and huge flaps. It can fly with full control at 30 mph but still get up and cruise at a reasonable speed.

 Here we are approaching Gaston's White River Resort with a little river fog.


Runway is 3200' long and wide.


Landed in first 300' and had to taxi over 1/2 mile to the parking area.


Helio with huge flaps and leading edge slats.

Cam and I about to go do some fishin'!!




For some reason I got on this low/slow flying kick and in July we purchased a very nice 180 HP Super Cub. This cub was owned by World Aerobatic Champ Henry Haigh who I knew and from whom I received a lot of help when I built my 260 HP Laser type aerobatic monoplane. He passed away not too long ago and I purchased his Super Cub from his son..



Once again at my favorite fly in destination, Gaston's.


Cam and I leaving Gaston's


Cam and I at Gaston's.


My brother Steve and I going flying. He has somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 hours flying in Alaska in the late 80's and 90's.


So no new updates really on the Breezy. Sorry. There may be something exciting coming down the Pike but I'll wait until it gets here to divulge. It's a bucket list thing so we'll see if it all pans out.