GyroRon
09-14-2008, 07:16 PM
Great weekend for me...
Met up with a bunch of friends yesterday in Shelby NC and rode over 200 miles on the motorcycle on some great twisty roads in the mountains.
Today went out to the airport and flew my Titan Tornado to another airport for a Hamburger lunch.
Then visited with Tim Moses to check out his rotorblades he recently purchased used and in not as advertised condition ( but they still appear to be flyable so that is good )
Then went home and hitched up the boat and jet ski and headed down to the lake to get cooled off ( it was in the lower 90's today and muggy )
Pleasant surprise on the way to the lake, the gas station closest to the boat ramp still had 3.61$ a gallon advertised when virtually everyone else around here was at 3.99-4.59$ after the price jump on Friday, and most stations were sold out. Stopped in and the price was real and they had gas! Didn't need much but topped off the tank, they had a sign asking us to limit purchases to 10 gallons.... Went inside and told the clerk that I will try to always buy my gas from them from now on, that they are honorable for not screwing us like all the other stations. This is a fancy Texaco station too, not a small hole in the wall place.
Anyway, my day started at the airport, hear something flying by as I was in the hangar preflighting my plane. Knew the sound, it had to be Barry Thigpen coming by, he was headed to that hamburger lunch too. He buzzed us, and dam his plane is fast! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJcPKjQG02s
Met up with a bunch of friends yesterday in Shelby NC and rode over 200 miles on the motorcycle on some great twisty roads in the mountains.
Today went out to the airport and flew my Titan Tornado to another airport for a Hamburger lunch.
Then visited with Tim Moses to check out his rotorblades he recently purchased used and in not as advertised condition ( but they still appear to be flyable so that is good )
Then went home and hitched up the boat and jet ski and headed down to the lake to get cooled off ( it was in the lower 90's today and muggy )
Pleasant surprise on the way to the lake, the gas station closest to the boat ramp still had 3.61$ a gallon advertised when virtually everyone else around here was at 3.99-4.59$ after the price jump on Friday, and most stations were sold out. Stopped in and the price was real and they had gas! Didn't need much but topped off the tank, they had a sign asking us to limit purchases to 10 gallons.... Went inside and told the clerk that I will try to always buy my gas from them from now on, that they are honorable for not screwing us like all the other stations. This is a fancy Texaco station too, not a small hole in the wall place.
Anyway, my day started at the airport, hear something flying by as I was in the hangar preflighting my plane. Knew the sound, it had to be Barry Thigpen coming by, he was headed to that hamburger lunch too. He buzzed us, and dam his plane is fast! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJcPKjQG02s