Arlington 2004

I posted several pictures that I took at the NWEAA Fly-in over on
alt.binaries.pictures.aviation. I flew in with a few friends on Saturday
morning. You can see such notable sights as Paul Anton and his Ercoupe and a
1917 Curtiss Jenny. I got to meet Paul's wife, Winona. I think Winona was a
little startled to see what I look like after that thread on old pilots. ;-)
The weather was marginal VFR in the morning; we flew the localizer approach,
but by mid-day there were sun breaks and the sky took on a very dramatic
appearance.

I thought the fly-in was especially good this year. They dropped the bowing
helicopter routine (yay!) and the Cessna 150 Aerobat routine (boo!). The
formation aerobatic show of two airplanes, a T-6 and Yak 55, flown by Bud
and Ross Granley was absolutely incredible. Despite the differences between
these two planes the Granleys seemed to be able to do whatever they wanted
with them. http://hometown.aol.com/cobra1444/my...e/profile.html

The Diamond DA-40 was there with its Garmin G-1000 cockpit, courtesy of
Galvin. Hillsboro Aviation was there, but Cessna did not see fit to display
the G-1000 equipped Skylane or, for that matter, any new airplanes. In fact,
Cessna refused to spend even one dime on exhibiting there.

Garmin had no G-1000 cockpits on display and the panel might not even have
existed as far as Garmin was concerned. Instead, the Garmin booth displayed
the CNX-80 and the MX-20. None of the vendors had any Garmin 296s left by
Saturday.

Wayne Sargent was there with his Hyperbipe; there were two or three of these
there this year.

Favorite things I saw were the Titan T-51 Mustang replica, an RV (an RV, not
the plane) that looked like it belonged in a Mad Max movie, some beautiful
Stearmans (Stearmen?), and many other biplanes. Okay, I have a soft spot for
biplanes.

The flea market was much smaller this year due to the death of one of its
major exhibitors from diabetes.

--
Christopher J. Campbell
World Famous Flight Instructor
Port Orchard, WA


If you go around beating the Bush, don't complain if you rile the animals.