Lots of fun. Great job organizing it. Well done.


Kevin's pumpkin captured mid-drop.

Will someone send these amphib guys a memo that it's a DRY lakebed! Seabee Warbird pilots Pete and Lien stepped out still wearing their life vests, from their splash in Tahoe before arriving!

Dang looks like a helluva time was had, glad the weather was so nice for y'all. Thanks for all the great pics!!!

Hi guys - Court Leve and I will be working on our pics today and tomorrow and we will post a link as soon as we get through all of them. I shot 172 GB worth of photos and video so there's a lot to go through! In the meantime if you are looking to get a hold of me about a specific photo, feel free to send me a PM through this forum or through my website http://grantkaye.com. Thanks, Grant

Most landings were great.... Others were just shitty.

That SeaBee is sweet!

Here are mine:

Watched the Sea Bee depart Carson City, astounding climb performance. Corvette powered?? Sounded great.

Hey Alex, great to meet you on Friday afternoon, and thanks for sharing your water with me. steve

Thanks to Kevin and to all that made this fly-in happen, it was CRAZY! Something wild and exciting going on at all times.

Pops found a new place to land across the stump patch. This was a fun spot with a curve and terraced with 3 foot drop offs in between.


Don't tell Gary he can not land because his tires are to small.


If you took the word "mine" out of this sign it would be appropriate for most of the places Kevin led us into.


Behind the sign.


After some crazy luck not bending my plane at High Boy, I had no idea how I was going to get it back out.
My Davtron put the DA just over 10,000', and this strip was crazy short.
I walked down to the launch or crash point to see what was below, this shot is at that point looking back up the strip.


The launch point.

Great trip! Some great photos!
Since im probably the only guy here that still can't figure out how to post a photo,
here's a quick (really crappy) video of landing some familiar spots:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pst1gggHIk

Looking forward to a well edited video of the weekend...anyone?

Thanks Kevin and everyone else involved!

Terry wrote:The launch point.

^^^^ and the incoming pancake zone!!

Great shots every one, and Alex, I love the vortices in the dust coming off of X-ray in this picture!

Looks like a great time was had by all! Wish I could have made it out for that.

Dang! It really was Burning Man Lite! Looks like y'all had a great time!

What a great weekend! Here are a few pics Carey or I took.

Rfinkle's 182.


Socializing around the 205.


Chris trying out his hammock chair.


The weather was severe clear...so long as no one was taking off!


Carey, Me, Chris and Rich


Short final at Easy Money.


Pacerpilot landing at Easy Money.


Brian's group he was leading around at Easy Money.


Brian over the Nevada desert.



A fun road Brian found for us to land on.


Shooting my friend's AR15 with Helina shooting a Eric's black powder .45 in the background.


My turn.


Eric with his black powder pistol.


A great turn out Saturday night.


The catered food was so good!



Dave and Dee with their pups enjoying breakfast.


Kevin helping Kindly with her breakfast. Made me miss my little ones!


It was a great weekend with a lot of cool planes and good friends, old and new. Thanks again Kevin and his crew for putting it on!

Really really great photos gang! I keep looking at this thread about every 30 minutes or so for new ones....Just great stuff!

Just saw a few pics from Court. Those guys can take some serious pictures! Anxious to see what they have after they make their edit.

Troy Hamon wrote:

m7flyer wrote:Robs Arrival to High Boy Ridge

That looks a little sideways...with the left tire looking pretty overworked...I wonder what my landings look like in freeze frame?

My worst landing of the weekend and it is all caught on video and stills, luck me

So the story goes like this. Kevin says the bail out is up the hill, ok. Jeremy's engine quits on roll out in front of me so I abort.

Now I am the last or 2nd to last to land. So there is like 10 planes parked. All is well until I am committed. Then it sinks in I am at 9000 plus MSL, DA well above 10,000 MSL

Now bare in mind I am a sea level guy. The ground is going buy like 60MPH, but this isn't the part that freaked me out. All my buddies airplanes are in my bail out zone.

So my brian is SCREAMING DON'T HIT THE PLANES!!!! So I'm like fuck it, don't even think of finessing it, get it down and stopped. I think the pictures tell how well that worked out.

I think the guys said it was the shortest land of the group, something like 350' and I came way to close to putting it on it's nose.

There was a whole lot wrong with that one!!! But I flew it away, so I think that gets it in the great landing classification! Ya, right, who am I kidding.

That Maule spring gear takes a lot to make it flex, and those 29" Air Hawks will take a lickin. I don't recommend this type of air frame testing.

Cheers...Rob

Awesome Court! Good stuff!!

(You too Rob! Nothing got bent and it made for great pics!

Here are some iPhone pics.

Old mines don't scare us.


The Maules were abundant. Highroad shows us how to get er done at Gold Mine.


M7flyer stirring up the dust.


Every time we had a take off it went IFR for 5 minutes. Some got creative and took off like military, side by side. Got Dust??


We had 3 Maules all with pilots named Rob. We also had 5 white/red Maules. So it got interesting when you made a call, white and red Maule.


Good times!

Simply amazing photographs and your event looks superbly organized.

To say that I am jealous would be a gross understatement!

Were there two separate camping areas, one for taildragger's and one for tri-gears?