Almost totally rained out, but there where some aircraft to take pictures of.
07/03/10Showing 1-19 of 192527 visitsAlbum by Steven W Dugger
1 Rainy Misty Day. The Newton EAA flyin for 07/03/10
2 The Rain, it is coming.
3 A Citation 3. An older business jet, and not exactly the kind of thing you associate with Amature Built aircraft. Of course, this airplane may have just been visiting.
4 A Lear, looks like a 35.
5 This is a Diamond, a next generation training airplane. Made from composites and equiped with an advanced powerplant, they are very efficient.
6 An Ercoupe. A classic aircraft from the late 1930's. I love it for it's art deco look. Ercoupes design was intended to be unspinable, so that it could be flown safely by pilots with only a limited amount of skill.
7 This cool little BiPlane was called Hawk Pshaw. It's a plans built aircraft replica of the old Curtis Hawk fighter from the 1920's.
This was a cool airplane and I got the pictures as he was leaving (just ahead of another rainstorm). I wish I had had the chance to take more pictures of it!
8 A Rans RV-6. This is one of the most popular Kit airplanes in the United States and maybe even the world. The numbers of aircraft flying come close to matching some production airplanes. RV-6's are famous for being fast, yet easy to fly and easy to build.
9 Note the shape of the wing tip and the pointed shape of the propeller. These are not part of the original design. The builder added them in an effort to improve the aircraft's efficiency. The increased length of the wing, will certainly improve climb, but will adversly affect the roll rate.
10 Then there's the VariEze. Designed back in the 1970's, before there were kit aircraft manufactures, the VariEze was the ultimate in efficient homebuilt aircraft. Even today, VariEze's win contests for minimal fuel consumption vs speed. An incredible airplane that's been equaled but never surpassed for what it does.
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12 The owner of this aircraft decided to taxi it on back to the hanger, to avoid anymore rain and possibly hail.
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15 An old Cessna Skylane. Today at Cessna, I'm working on the latest generation of single engine aircraft, so these old timers still have a strong interest for me.
