f pix Mary and I took at the
National Air Tour stop yesterday, in Anoka, MN.

Boy, Jay, you really get around!
I'm glad to report that though an incoming rainy front delayed the tour's
arrival in Des Moines (what a sight -- half a dozen of 'em thundering sloooowly
over town, beating into that headwind) the only complication was one last plane
that may have tried to skirt the front on the eastern side. The Ford Trimotor
set down in a soybean field about 5 Thursday afternoon near Pleasant Hill,
causing a brief flurry of excitement, but it was a precautionary landing to
avoid hail and they may have made it out again Friday. (got out of work too
late to check, and the TV crews' interest faded quickly) It's the plane with
a rainbow logo on the side.

The folks with the tour, especially Greg Herrick himself and announcer Roger
Gomoll, do a nice job of welcoming visiting crowds and telling the tales of the
planes. Catch one of the stops if you can.