After a short delay to fix the Camera Ship's trim system, Jasta Flight took off from Creve Coeur about 10:00. See you guys in a little over a week. Fly safe.

Sky in the Fokker D-VII!

Sky gets to sit in the Fokker D-VII owned by the Lafayette Foundation at Creve Coeur airport Sunday. How cool is that!

Jasta at Creve Coeur Aerodrome.

It looked like an Aerodrome on the Western Front in 1918 this evening as three World War I German fighter replica's landed for the weekend at Creve Coeur.

Andrew King and two other gentlemen were flying a Fokker Dr.1, a D-VII and a D-VIII. They're on the way to Dayton for the World War I Fly-In held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base held next weekend.

If the weather is good tomorrow, I hope to do some air-to-air of one of these birds as well as ground shots of all of them.

Still making cable ends

My friend Glenn has been making cable ends for the flying/brace wires for what seems like the past two weeks. He's made a bunch of them. It started out taking him about 45 minutes to do one of the flying wires on the wings. Today, it took him 12, yes 12 minutes to make a tail brace wire. Guess he's gotten better with practice.

Making drain grommet covers.

I spent yesterday and today putting the tapes on the tailfeathers and making drain grommet covers. You talk about tedious. You take the spool from a 2" tape roll, draw around it with a pencil about 600 times and then cut them out one by one. At least I won't have to do that for a while.

A little family time.

Went to the park down the street with Little-Boo, Gina-Boo and the doggies today. Everyone had fun out on this nice early-fall day.

Last day with the Pitcairn.

The Pitcairn in the early-morning mist.

Andrew makes a pass.

Taken yesterday-the Pitcairn leads the Bird.