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Mifflin Airport Review

I apologize for the lateness of this post – I was tied up with repairing my wing wheel, and replacing leaky air tubing on my glider :-(.  Anyway, here is my (personal, biased, and more than likely insane) take of the airports/airstrips in the Mifflin contest area.  As always, if an airport/airstrip isn’t mentioned, that means…

Monday 5/20

Grid squatting today waiting to see if the fog will clear out. The sun is coming out periodically and the ceiling is lifting a bit. More soon…

Day 4 May 16

Looks like an interesting day. It’s much warmer and windy, with an interesting forecast. The winds later should be shifting to be favorable for the end of the task. Both tasks are open now and most are headed out. Here is the typical Mifflin scene of the launch crew waiting to get started. We even…

Rest day!

It’s crew’s choice today and we are going to the Belleville auction to buy a cow. High winds aloft out of 255 (the wrong direction) and better forecasts over the next days make this a good point for a break from flying.

Chili dinner

At least my pilot made it home! Chili dinner at the hangar in mifflin. Thanks to Joanie and all of the cooks! It’s the volunteers who make Mifflin so special.

Cold and cloudy

Waiting for folks to return. Clouds have covered the area as predicted. It’s cold and windy right now. A few are back having bailed on the task. A few are landed out. Chili dinner tonight. I think those who make it back will definitely need that, plus …

Day 2 at mifflin

Windy and colder today. We are expecting a frost tonight! The pilots reported that yesterday was rough, as in bumpy, with lots of folks being jostled around in the cockpit. For Tim, this led to applesauce on the left wing when a pouch of gogo squeeze g…