Scenes from Winter Soaring

A 65-th birthday glider ride for Doug B.



Preparing for a checkride.



Dimitry cheers.



Egg capture. (No, I don't believe that rainbow either. Photoshop city.)



Pencil-work during a checkride.



Intensive training with Monique.





--Monique

Mistral flies at Byron

At long last, I finally had a chance to fly my Mistral-C in Byron late last year, December 15, 2007.

Here are two pictures: one before the first flight and one of my landing.





Thanks to Monique for the camera-work.

--Johan Larson

Pictures from the Tracy Op

Here are eight pictures from Saturday's fly-in to Tracy Airport.










-- Bill Levinson

Flying Food Processor

This is as good of a reason as any to use transponders at altitude. I was sitting in front of a Boeing 777 Pratt Whitney PW4090 engine this afternoon and had a coworker snap this photo. That's a 90,000 lb. thrust engine and I'm about 6 feet tall. They say the outside cowling diameter is equal to the diameter of a 737 fuselage.

I think a single place ship could disappear in here without a hickup. It's a monster.

--Tony Derrer

Scenes from a Workday

By the power of Greyskull...


Buffing...


One person working. Four people watching. Welcome to the Teamsters...


Len (and friend) working on FB...


And that's the auto-eject...


Painting the 1-26 trailer...


Aah, the glory job. But Mike's generous; see, he shares...


Watch your fingers...


Bonk, bonk. Was I supposed to thaw these out?


Pictures by Monique. Commentary by Johan.