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1-26 and PW5 Report, June 2, 2011

Check out all the news here and see all the photos here. Don’t know what it takes to get a contest day yet, but I know what it takes to get the PW5’s and the 126’s in the air: Three tow planes and they’re ready to go, the weather doesn’t seem to much matter! Today…

Glorious formations flight

I’d like to share some photos I took during my aeroclubs annual eastercamp at Bømoen, Voss. This airfield is located in Western Norway and can offer some fantastic mountain soaring!   Our clubs old fiberglass school glider: SF-34 Discus b      

Day One Will Be Day One On Another Day

As you can see, some of us are working to keep ourselves entertained. I personally thought I’d see how many “O’s” I could get in one sentence while practicing for the friendly (most days) competition I am having with my wife on Words With Friends, a mostly fun Scrabble application on our not-so-smart phones. Some…

New Air Service to Chilhowee?

Today at Chilhowee, a nice big roomy Pilatus PC12/47E dropped in to bring guests and wow spectators. After a practice pass (the runway ain’t all that long folks and this big iron can carry roughly 12 people including pilot and co-pilot at 250 mph according to this writer’s secret source), a fine landing was executed.…