Netters, The tank has been repaird and glassed back in. Its not real pretty but after reading the other flight stories on the net I had to go. I got to the airport this morning, OK almost afternoon. Gased up and fired it up. Since it was so cold,,,,, about 65 I had to let it warm up for full 5 minutes. Everything was looking good. I taxied around for about 10 minutes, and then decided to give it a test. I taxied to the active and was cleared, I can tell by the sound in the controlers voice that he was happy to see me back running. I took off and had plans to fly to Yuma, but wanted to fly close to the airport at first until all felt fine. After about 10 minutes I decided to head west. I was about 40 mile out and that little voice inside said...."what are you doing'? the big voice said flying to Yuma shut up. I checked all temps, the map and went to Yuma. Being a Marine Corps base as well as small commercial airport, I wanted to have all my ducks in a row. I listened to ATIS and it said "YUMA TOWER CLOSED" all traffic on 119.3. A glorified unicom, that made me feel a little better. Normally there are jets and planes all over the place today one cessna in the air and one Lear taking off. After landing a getting to the FBO, I drained the baldder and talked to several people who wanted to talk to big guy who got out of that little airplane. I cant make the plane bigger, diet started today. I gassed up and took off to the NW tha CA dunes are packed on Turkey day weekend. Brother in law and office manager and families were out there. A couple low passes and back to Chandler. 150 miles in 1:20. Not the fasted KR2, but a flying KR2....yyyyyyyeeeeeeeeehhhhhaaaaaaaaa.
Lee Van Dyke Mesa AZ l...@vandyke5.com
