I got there a little late - but I did get there. I flew into Frasca about
11:15 or so because of bad weather in Tennessee that I had to wait for.
Mark J. and Mark L. had already performed the Corvair services and I heard
that
there were plenty of people in the congregation. It was nice to see Larry
Flesner, Cleone Markwell and a few other KR or Corvair people. I stayed
around and talked Corvair stuff with several converts and sold a couple
Corvair
manuals . The other Kr guys bugged out about 230 or so because weather was
going to get bad at their homes. I stayed and got to see the P-40 and the
Spitfire fly - WOW! It was nothing like Oshkosh. These guys did 300mph
passes
right in front of us - what a sound! They did a little formation flying
and showed off some. Quite a sight. Rudy Frasca passed a hat to collect
funds for his fuel bill. The P-40 burns 38 an hour in cruise and 110gal/hr
at
full throtttle. He burned more in that 45 minutes than in my whole flight
from Valdosta GA. But it was great.
I left shortly after the air show and headed off to Cleone Markwell's in
Casey,IL to help him out for a couple days with his airplane, a Zenith
601HD. We had it pretty well ready for flight when I left this morning. I
flew
to Auborn, AL to inspect Steve Philabaum's KR2S (one sweet ship going
together) and then headed home. I got in about 7:00 pm local.
Yes, these little time machines are fun. I logged about 9 hours on the
trip to Urbana and back - not too shabby. Now down to a little bit of work
and paying bills......life goes on..
Keep building - Fly safe
Bill and N41768
Valdosta, Ga
