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Escape From Arctic New Bern

Posted on March 28, 2018by Sunny Weathers
CJ 3

Forget Global Warming, New Bern seems to be serving penance in a regional freezing climate change purgatory this year.  Thank heavens Storm and I escaped the chilly gloom for a few hours Saturday.  The owner of the Air Cam Storm is helping to build offered to jet us down to Florida for a few hours […]

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Storm Makes Progress Building The Air Cam

Posted on February 22, 2018by Sunny Weathers
Storm Rivets Vertical Stabilizer

If you are wondering how Storm is faring with the airplane kit he is building, I can tell you that he is having a blast!  He has always been fond of working with rivets and clecos.  He gets to handle plenty of them while building this Air Cam kit plane.  So far progress has been […]

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Departure

Posted on August 10, 2016November 19, 2016by Sunny Weathers

While not quite as exciting as the arrivals on Sunday, the departures on Friday can be entertaining as the controllers shoot off planes 2 at a time from each runway. Here is a sample of the hurry up and wait atmosphere of the biggest departure day at AirVenture.

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The planes, the planes….

Posted on August 8, 2016November 19, 2016by Sunny Weathers

From my previous posts you might begin to think that I was having so much fun at AirVenture 2016, I forgot to take many airplane pictures.  Between not camping in the North 40 where I usually get a lot of photos and seeing so many wonderful old friends that I just had to talk to […]

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A Sad Tale and Some Laughs

Posted on August 7, 2016November 19, 2016by Sunny Weathers

One sad occurrence at Air Venture this year was damage sustained by the Martin Mars Water Bomber during an emergency water landing made because of a bird strike to one of their engines.  We got to see them demo a water bomb run during the airshow but when we next saw the bomber, it was […]

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E6B Whiz

Posted on August 5, 2016November 19, 2016by Sunny Weathers

While dining with our friends Matt and Jo from Flyinn New Zealand at the Airventure Seaplane Base, Storm and I met Marie who is a member of the Western Michigan University Precision Flight Team.  Marie told us that she is an nationally ranked E6B flight computer manipulator.  We were thrilled to learn of her skills […]

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