Monday, October 15, 2007


Today was another beautiful fall day here in NE Ohio.
I started it by sleeping in until early afternoon. Not sure why, but it did feel good. I then treated my self to a breakfast/lunch of a hot dog. May as well start it healthy.
I then decided to (what else?) go flying. I loaded my planes and headed to LCCC around 4:30pm.
I started with my Spitfire and it flew fantastic. I was thinking to my self nothing could be more relaxing (other than hunting or fishing) at the time. So after about a 12 minute flight the battery was running low and I knew it was time to land.
Next in my flying circus was my Mustang. After just getting it yesterday I was really looking forward to flying it. WELL that was until my third time around the field. Now the Ghost of the Red Barron was on board. The plane started doing crazy things and the motor was pulsing. Recognizing the problem I started flying a pattern to land. The plane seemed to mellow unlike me. I was mad this was happening again. Well I was on final and getting ready to land when the Ghost hopped in the seat again. He first killed the throttle, turned right and nosed down then decided "why not throttle up and go in hard?" I was lucky the plane was low and only suffered minor damage. How ever I also know the hobby store will try and pin it on me because there is damage. So I brought the plane home and put a receiver from another plane in it and it's fine. I'll have it back in the air tomorrow.
After cooling off I was joined by my friend Chris who I met flying at EC this year. He flew some off his planes as did his daughter who flys very well. He designs and builds allot of his and I love when he brings something new and gets it flying.
While I was flying my F4U Corsair, his daughter got out their video camera and recorded me flying. I made several low level fly bys and she caught them all. I grabbed the video off off You Tube. It's on the page entitle flight of the GWS Corsair. It was getting late but you can still enjoy it.
Time permitting I'll post again tomorrow. I do work Tuesday through Friday from 10:30 to 9:30 so I may not post those days. I will try to post something but make no promises. The bright side is hopefully I'll have a good week and be able to post it here. Until next time take care.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey bro,
I viewed this video two nights ago but only got to post about it now. We resumed school yesterday, which means I was up LATE(er) the night before, preparing.

GREAT video. It's neat to see 'em in motion. And that's cool that you have a buddy to "fly" with. I'm sure it's even more fun that way.
Love ya,
Pone

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