Not Wind, Not rain, Not Snow or Hail will stop us from flying.......
#1
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Not Wind, Not rain, Not Snow or Hail will stop us from flying.......
...Because we are diehards!
It was terrible weather today, windy as all get out, rain, nasty storms..... I made the 45 minute trek I do every other week to fly with my buddy John on the other side of Detroit today, we still braved it. I got about 3 minutes of white knuckle flying in very high winds before the rain came pounding in and fell so hard I was worried my transmitter would stop working.
Love these late season flying sessions-feels like cheating death to get a few more flights in before it's too cold to @#$% with getting alcohol on your fingers in 10 degree weather. In a few weeks we'll be relegated to burning electrons and tossing gliders, which is not a terrible lot in life but just not the same as flying something powered by Infernal Combustion.
It was terrible weather today, windy as all get out, rain, nasty storms..... I made the 45 minute trek I do every other week to fly with my buddy John on the other side of Detroit today, we still braved it. I got about 3 minutes of white knuckle flying in very high winds before the rain came pounding in and fell so hard I was worried my transmitter would stop working.
Love these late season flying sessions-feels like cheating death to get a few more flights in before it's too cold to @#$% with getting alcohol on your fingers in 10 degree weather. In a few weeks we'll be relegated to burning electrons and tossing gliders, which is not a terrible lot in life but just not the same as flying something powered by Infernal Combustion.
#3
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I had heard there would be storms, but you have to understand that it's gotta be pretty bad before we don't fly I can't think of too many times in the last 10 years where we just went to lunch without flying first....
No bulletproof vest needed in Roseville, but I do go armed pretty much any time I am not at work.
John has been robbed at gunpoint while flying before he met me, lost his wallet and the plane. My head is on a swivel any time I am in Wayne county. Roseville is NE of Detroit, I live in the NW in a quiet little village on a lake-been in my house only since late August.
No bulletproof vest needed in Roseville, but I do go armed pretty much any time I am not at work.
John has been robbed at gunpoint while flying before he met me, lost his wallet and the plane. My head is on a swivel any time I am in Wayne county. Roseville is NE of Detroit, I live in the NW in a quiet little village on a lake-been in my house only since late August.
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Dave...it looks like you are standing on a massive Corian countertop that just got hosed off...! Pretty slick looking pavement.
To keep from getting attacked while flying, just scatter some KFC and some 40s of King Kobra around a nearby field BEFORE the flying session as a diversion. I do something similar around here to keep the Yellow Jackets pre-occupied.
To keep from getting attacked while flying, just scatter some KFC and some 40s of King Kobra around a nearby field BEFORE the flying session as a diversion. I do something similar around here to keep the Yellow Jackets pre-occupied.