Lee-- It sounds great. Glad to hear you are back at it. I'm on the way
out now. it is 22 deg. and cloud base at 6500 and snow to the north. Some
how I am having trouble feeling sorry for you.
Joe Horton
>
> 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.
