barnstorm2
Platinum Member
- Joined
- Nov 1, 2003
- Messages
- 14,573
- Location
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Aircraft
- 2-place Air Command CLT SxS (project), & Twinstarr Autogyro
- Total Flight Time
- 750+hrs and climbing
Saturday morning I got to get my first $66.50 omelet.
DUC (Dayton Ultralight Club) held a breakfast flyin which was also a Cessna fly-in at HookField, Middletown Ohio.
In my longest flight to date in my 2-place I flew about 45mins over some difficult territory to the flyin. However, once you get to Hook Field you find some nice farmland and lakes and rivers that come right up to the airport.
This was my first visit to Hook field from the air. I had done some computer work in the 80's for what was once the AERONCA aircraft company who's factory is at the airport.
As fate would have it one of the DUC officers has an AERONCA and he came up to be and offered to trade rides. I took him up on that offer right away!
I got to fly the FW for a while and it was very very cool for a Fixed Wing. This was the first FW time I have had since the 1980s.
I sat in the back seat. Boy, it's weird to use rudder pedels like that
He loved the gyro ride and he was all smiles and questions. We got to taxi out behind a Steerman.
On the way there and back I flew over AK Steele's Middletown steel plant.
I have taken tours of some of AK buildings before but I was set-aback when I flew over it. With the haze around me when I flew over the middle of the factory at 2000 feet it was AK property from horizon to horizon!
As I approached I could see the eerie orange-red glow of what I think was a molten pit of iron and some burn off flame towers.
I also go to pass by the famous WLW radio tower.
And I also got a pict of the State Prison, which I thought were some kind of cool shaped apartment buildings when I approached..
And a giant multi-story Jesus reaching to the sky built at a luxurious church which must have multi-millions worth in buildings and grounds. Somehow, I wonder what Sister Theresa or Jesus and the poor might do with all that money. Humm.. I had best not say more.
Some of the cool things to see; a BMW mini, Neat bi planes in all conditions, tail draggers everywhere, DC-3s and some happy owners of new ultralights.
DUC (Dayton Ultralight Club) held a breakfast flyin which was also a Cessna fly-in at HookField, Middletown Ohio.
In my longest flight to date in my 2-place I flew about 45mins over some difficult territory to the flyin. However, once you get to Hook Field you find some nice farmland and lakes and rivers that come right up to the airport.
This was my first visit to Hook field from the air. I had done some computer work in the 80's for what was once the AERONCA aircraft company who's factory is at the airport.
As fate would have it one of the DUC officers has an AERONCA and he came up to be and offered to trade rides. I took him up on that offer right away!
I got to fly the FW for a while and it was very very cool for a Fixed Wing. This was the first FW time I have had since the 1980s.
I sat in the back seat. Boy, it's weird to use rudder pedels like that
He loved the gyro ride and he was all smiles and questions. We got to taxi out behind a Steerman.
On the way there and back I flew over AK Steele's Middletown steel plant.
I have taken tours of some of AK buildings before but I was set-aback when I flew over it. With the haze around me when I flew over the middle of the factory at 2000 feet it was AK property from horizon to horizon!
As I approached I could see the eerie orange-red glow of what I think was a molten pit of iron and some burn off flame towers.
I also go to pass by the famous WLW radio tower.
And I also got a pict of the State Prison, which I thought were some kind of cool shaped apartment buildings when I approached..
And a giant multi-story Jesus reaching to the sky built at a luxurious church which must have multi-millions worth in buildings and grounds. Somehow, I wonder what Sister Theresa or Jesus and the poor might do with all that money. Humm.. I had best not say more.
Some of the cool things to see; a BMW mini, Neat bi planes in all conditions, tail draggers everywhere, DC-3s and some happy owners of new ultralights.