Some fun...... Much aggravation.....
Well, I left the house this morning in my pickup, loaded with airplanes looking for a good time!! Where we fly is on a private airstrip about 10 miles from my house up on top of the plateau. I started up the hill everything was fine........ I got about 3/4 the way up the hill and I started loosing power..... slower and slower I went. Narrow two lane highway at this point.... The truck died on a mostly level spot.... Looked at the gauges and it was a bit warm, not hot yet but warmer than normal, I thought I could get to the top of the hill and coast a ways.... re started the truck, I made it another mile very slow with the temp climbing.... then bang, and a big cloud of steam and the engine locked up..... I really couldn't get mad, it is a 96 3/4 ton 4x4 heavy duty truck and I have about 236,000 miles on it and it has served me well over the years. But here I sit in the middle of the narrow two lane road with a truck full of airplanes, I was NOT going to leave it there. I sat there with my flashers on, I knew that my flying buddies would be along fairly soon. Sure enough one came by sooooo we towed it the last 3 miles to the flying site and I got to fly. At the end of the flying I loaded it back up and had one of my buddies tow me to the top of the hill and I coasted the truck down the 6 miles to my drive way and I was able to coast in an park it. So all is good? No...... I have to finish rebuilding the transmission for my wife's Tahoe and get her back on the road...... So my 66 GMC Flatbed truck just became our main vehicle....... On top of that when I walked in the house my wife informed me that the kitchen sink was clogged hard..... and it was...... got it unclogged and I am hoping that my week goes better!! At least I got to fly!!!!!
. Most of them have not met me before or seen a lot of 3D flying at that field. Most of them are flying warbirds, EDF jets, and some trainers. The only other plane close to 3D performance was an electric 30cc Great Planes Reactor. 
