We go to Dayton

The Wright Family Plot in Woodland Cemetery.

Sky standing in front of the Wright (Brothers) House in Dayton.

Woodland Cemetery.

Little 5-year old Johnny fell into the Erie Canal. 

His trusty Lab jumped in, grabbed him and brought him back to shore.

However, it was too late. Poor Johnny had drowned.

Sky gets ready to go for a Rearwin Sky Ranger ride with Andy Heins.

On final to the grass at Moraine Air Park.

Embraer Lineage Engine

   

     The fan section of an Embraer Lineage engine. 

Stare at it long enough and it starts to turn!

Any port in a snowstorm...

A lone Cessna 172 braves Saturdays snowstorm in the shadeport.

Jacob Layne measures the depth of the flooding.

A foot at its deepest part.

How highs the water Papa?

I went out to the airport early yesterday morning to see how high the water had gotten overnight. It had come up about 4" and was starting to come up out of the water drains. I hung around for a couple hours, helped a couple of friends, then went home at noon to have lunch with Sky.

Going back out at 3:30, the water had risen dramatically, now completely covering the east/west taxiway that runs North of the t-hangars. A friend of mine, Bill Austin, was busy loading a truck with various Rawdon parts he had in his hangar. I went over and helped along with a few others to lift the airplane up onto sawhorses.

I'll be going back out this morning to survery the damage...

Flooding at Creve Coeur!

St Louis received about 10 inches of rain over a very short time span is week, causing Creve Coeur Lake to flood.The Missouri River, on the west side of the airport, is still within its banks. The Corps of Engineers built a 500-year dike and a major road on top of the dike. We're all hoping that dike holds.

I went out yesterday afternoon after work to get some Cub parts out of one hangar and to move the Fairchild to higher ground. Both aircraft are currently dry.

I took some pictures of the flooding on the East side of the airport. The flood water was dead still, reflecting the hangars.

Sunday Evening at the airport--Nov. 8th.

It was a beautiful late-fall evening last night so I decided to drive the Mighty Mustang back out to the airport an hour before sunset to see if anyone was flying. 

I found this little jewel resting in an end hangar.

I was out west of the grass runway standing in a cornfield taking pictures of airplanes

as they took off and landed. I heard a rustle and turned to see this...

Three does were making their way across the airport.

Bill French comes in to land.

Doug Watanabe and John Benegas follow.

Smoke On! Albert Stix on his takeoff.