Watching the storm go by...

Watching a nasty storm go by in Gulfport yesterday.

Headed home.

Gilles Auliard gets ready to shoot us with his camera Sunday morning.

Photo by Skyler.

Blakesburg on Saturday.

One of the two rows of Monocoupes at Blakesburg.

Greg Herrick parks his Stinson Tri-motor.

Waco on takeoff. This picture was an experiment and

I really like the way it turned out.

Bellanca

Sky runs the flight sim for the kids.

Monocoupe under clear skies.

We're going to Blakesburg!

We're headed up to Blakesburg for the annual Antique Airplane Association Fly-In. I pulled Sky out of school after his 2nd hour Algebra class and we went out to Creve Coeur and pulled the airplane out of the hangar.

Sky munches on a sandwich before we depart.

Hot and hazy were the words of the day. When we left it was 96 degrees out
with a heat index of 102. We had to go up to 4,500' to get out of the bumps.

Headed North.

Bill French climbs out on takeoff in his 1935 Waco CUC headed towards the Antique Airplane Association Fly-In held at Blakesburg, Ia.

Building the Monosport Exhaust

Glenn Peck adjusts the jig for the Monosport exhaust he's building.
He won't have the airplanes at this years AAA Fly-In up at Blakesburg, IA.

Bill Austin gets a Rawdon T1!

Bill Austin returned this week with his recently acquired Rawdon T1 from North Perry Airport in Miami.

The airplane had been built as a sprayer and owned by a banner-towing operation. The airplane hasn't flown in years but is complete having set inside a hanger the entire time. It's serial number 31 out of the 36 built.

This will make the second Rawdon at our field, the other being Phil and Terry Chastains. Their father, Jack Chastain, formerly worked for Herb Rawdon and served as Test Pilot pilot for the T1 series.