The wings are now back on Bud Field's Dragon Rapide project.
The wings are now back on Bud Field's Dragon Rapide project.
The folks at the Alexis Park Inn sent us a photo gallery of the Air Mail flights at Iowa City, which also commemorated the 90th Anniversary of the Iowa City airport (KIOW). Click for the photos. Thanks!
Fred Austin sent us an update about the Port Townsend, Washington, Aero Museum's Opening Celebration on August 3rd, 2008:
I attended the pre-opening celebration at the Port Townsend Aero Museum this evening. If you like old airplanes you don't want to miss this museum. It is the culmination of years of hard work by retired United Captain Jerry Thuotte and his lovely wife Peggy and a whole bunch of youngsters, and I mean youngsters, starting in their early teens. This is a great story and here's a really short version. Jerry and Peggy have been training young people for years in the art or aircraft repair and restoration, teaching them to fly, helping them get their A & P and pilot licenses then find jobs in the industry when they were ready. Jerry will tell you the whole story if you can corner him when you drop by the museum. He'll tell you the kids built the museum, not him, and he means it.
Besides the aircraft exhibits there is a reference library and some wonderful paintings, prints, and photographs on all the walls. If you haven't been to the Port Townsend Airport they have a good restaurant where you can grab breakfast or a burger. It's about 100 yards from the museum and there are plenty of tie downs.
For folks who didn't have a chance to make the Fly-In this past weekend, Rob Bach and Carolyn Applegate kindly took some photos of the approach in the Applegate's Cub. It is almost like being there! All photos by Carolyn or Rob.
Anybody want to go fly?
Got a taker. Taxiing out.
In the pattern.
Overhead Antique Airfield.
Left base, landing to the south.
Short final.
Touchdown!
Filling up for the next flight.
The flights at Air Mail Days picked up some press coverage last weekend:
For everybody who pre-ordered Air Mail pins and postal covers: Thank you! The covers and pins will be shipping out this Friday, August 5th.
On Sunday evening at the Fly-in, as the air was cool and just as the sun was going behind the trees, Eric Presten and Frank Schelling treated Skeeter Carlson for a ride in the Jenny. It was a great way to end the day of flying.
Photo by Rob Bach
Photo by Rob Bach
Photo by Rob Bach
Photo by Rob Bach
Photo by Ryan Pemberton
Al Stix's DeHavilland DH-4 was at Blakesburg this year, flown by Glen Peck. Here are two videos taken by Rob Bach. Listen to the sound of that Liberty!
Download the full video as an MPEG: DH-4 Flyover DH-4 Landing
What a great fly-in this year! Hats off to the crew of volunteers at Blakesburg for making Air Mail Days one of the best fly-ins I've ever attended. Over the next few days, and probably weeks, I'll be posting up photos from the fly-in. If you have photos you'd like to share, please send me some email at webmaster@antiqueairfield.com and I'll put them on the site.
Photo by Gilles Auliard
Jonathan Baron and Lynn Ford were weathered out of Blakesburg from their east coast locations, but in spite of that they did some flying this weekend with an impromptu Bellanca Triple Tail Tour ™ stop at Butler, Pennsylvania. Congratulations to Lynn for completing his recover in the past week!
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