My Son is home on leave from his Navy training base in Charleston SC. so today I took him up for the first time since I got my PPL. We started at Bentonville AR and made a big loop first going east to Carroll Co then to Joplin MO for BBQ lunch. Then on to Miami OK, Grove OK, Crystal Lake AR, Cherokee Strip AK (PVT), Siloam Springs AR, and back to Bentonville AR.

The high-light was a chance meeting with Jim and Matt Younkin, both from our local EAA chapter.

Jim's latest project is installing his Tru-Track autopilot system in an AN-2. Go figure!

Anyway, we got there as they were finishing up fueling and fixing to go around the patch a couple of times before going back to Springdale.

At that point I did what any good Dad would do..... I talked them into taking my son along!

15 minutes later my beaming 19 year old stepped out of a still running 1000 h.p. radial powered cabin biplane.

They went on to Springdale and we made our way back to Bentonville.

.........Life is good!

The old man himself........ and our ride dwarfed in the AN-2's shadow

Cool deal! I bet he had a blast!

Jim Younkin is sure one of my heros. Fine business.

We went flying today and landed on a gravel bar about a half an hour away from here. When we were getting ready to leave I tried pulling the starter and it broke and came all the way out of the panel! I'm glad I wasn't by myself, Stacey was inside on the controls and I was able to prop start it and we flew it home.

Watch out for the warden related to that bar especially in summer.

Bowtie_1961 wrote:My Son is home on leave from his Navy training base in Charleston SC. so today I took him up for the first time since I got my PPL. We started at Bentonville AR and made a big loop first going east to Carroll Co then to Joplin MO for BBQ lunch. Then on to Miami OK, Grove OK, Crystal Lake AR, Cherokee Strip AK (PVT), Siloam Springs AR, and back to Bentonville AR.

The high-light was a chance meeting with Jim and Matt Younkin, both from our local EAA chapter.

Jim's latest project is installing his Tru-Track autopilot system in an AN-2. Go figure!

Anyway, we got there as they were finishing up fueling and fixing to go around the patch a couple of times before going back to Springdale.

At that point I did what any good Dad would do..... I talked them into taking my son along!

15 minutes later my beaming 19 year old stepped out of a still running 1000 h.p. radial powered cabin biplane.

They went on to Springdale and we made our way back to Bentonville.

.........Life is good!

The old man himself........ and our ride dwarfed in the AN-2's shadow

Thats a really cool airplane! I have a friend flying from Florida - Bahamas / Caribbean now. It an all white AN.

Someone on here may see it.

AKT

maules.com wrote:Watch out for the warden related to that bar especially in summer.

I figured he wouldn't be around on Christmas eve

Nice day today so I decided to try a few spins in the J3:

Got my Maule back after some repair work. Now to make ready for the trip to socal and Az.


Then drinks with friends. Whiskey tinie with Makers Mark

After the fog lifted I had a pretty good day of local flying...would have been fun to make it up to the West circuit with RobW56 and AvidFlyer today, but I made the best of it....

Fishspotting


Waterskiing


Wildlife Viewing


Formation Flying



And of course a hilltop landing to finish off the day..

Glad you still made it out Aaron!

oops double post

robw56 wrote:oops double post

You and your double post's again Drinkin sum good stuff??

Happy New Year, Rob!!

Awesome, Bart!! What kind of fish were you looking for?

Not yet... but sounds like a good idea!

58Skylane wrote:Awesome, Bart!! What kind of fish were you looking for?

Lol, I wasn't really...I was being "fish"-etious

bart wrote:

58Skylane wrote:Awesome, Bart!! What kind of fish were you looking for?

Lol, I wasn't really...I was being "fish"-etious

I see.

It's certainly not anywhere near as cool or exciting as many of the trips shown in this thread, but I took my wife on my very first flight with my PPL. I got to fly around Philomath, Corvallis, and Mary's Peak

hpux735 wrote:It's certainly not anywhere near as cool or exciting as many of the trips shown in this thread, but I took my wife on my very first flight with my PPL. I got to fly around Philomath, Corvallis, and Mary's Peak.

Actually I'd say that's one of the coolest flights that any of us ever get to take. I can remember mine very clearly. Congratulations!

hpux735 wrote:

That flight path looks like an aerobatic sequence diagram!