Friday Model Flying with My Other Cousin Bob

Well, the cool/cold air kept my Uncle Wayne holed up in his warm little house, but me and My Other Cousin Bob decided to brave it for some Friday afternoon tooling around.   Bob lives up north somewhere close to Chicago, flying from a club field that is a lot more restrictive space-wise, so the wide expanses of the little airport at Cairo give him a lot more elbow room.

I had finally finished Mud Dabber's rebuild, at least up to the point of test-flying time, and also preferred some space for it's first trip around the patch.  

The day's temps were nice enough, at first, but slowly dropped as we flew.  My younger brother, Keith, showed up and was nominated as camera man and handed a video camera.  So, we got some video and stills, with more stills being pulled from the video footage.

Had a good time, though lacking a lot of 'pizzaz' without Wayne and the verbal jousting with Bob that we depend on.

Everything went home in attractive big pieces, so it was a success.  With Mud Dabber's trimming finished, I'll be able to fly the old trainer from Wayne's back-yard strip on it's next run to Illinois.

MOC Bob makes a low pass with one of his high-powered electrics...



All the kids are aboard...



Mud Dabber looks a bit smallish next to it's Senior Sport sibling...  





'When Go Pros Won't Go' ...my expensive little camera has been cranky since getting rained-on at the Sig Fly-In last summer...



Cruising the beanfields...



Bob's tiny Fly Baby was doing a good job of hovering in the breeze...