Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
This year is starting out to be not your typical race. The start date has been moved, the course changed, and the weather has been the cause. But the weather has also produced some great pictures. You can click on each picture to view a larger size.
The two Frederick based teams meet up in Alliance
We all know that the rainbow points to the winner!
The racers get a big welcome in Alliance
And a rainbow for each DC3 Racer
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Tuesday AM – Off to Topeka. Or to Salina, very strong headwinds, Gusts, WX. Plan to get to alliance tonight.
Tuesday mid-day – Made it to Topeka. We’re still in Kansas anymore!
Leavenworth prison
Flooding in Iowa
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
The DC3 Racers spend a few days in Iowa City completing handicap flights, sight seeing, and relaxing before the big race. (Click on each picture for a large view)
Some interesting factoids
Here is the Iowa City Government Center
And it is back to the race details. Here is N199CA at the inspection.
Debi has to go over the paperwork
The team after the handicap flight.
Carol juggling
Debi fits right in with her leather jacket
Carol crashes the sim at the kids aviation exhibit!
DC3 goes to the Early Arrivals party
Deb relaxes by shopping!
Lunch –
All the famous politicos ate here ( Clinton, Reagan et al) and was the site of the Iowa coffee bean caucus in TV’s “West Wing” – and we did too!
DC3 checks out some interesting aircraft and some interesting pilots!
Find race plane #27 – go ahead, you’ll see. They made us add 1/2″ to the number so it would be seen by the timers. What a difference a half inch makes! (Click on the picture for a larger view).
Stay tuned for more…
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Methuselah, who has been at Reptile Gardens in Rapid City since 1956, turns 130 this weekend. In honor of the giant tortoise’s birthday, Reptile Gardens is throwing him a birthday party.
He was born in 1881!!
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Seven crew members and volunteers walked away without serious injury after a World War II “Flying Fortress” bomber burned in a cornfield southeast of Aurora Municipal Airport on Monday, June 13, officials say. The B-17, christened the “Liberty Belle,” took off from the airport at 9:30 a.m. and made an emergency landing in a cornfield near Highway 71 and Minkler Road in Oswego after the pilot reported an engine fire, according to Sugar Grove Fire Chief Marty Kunkle.
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