News

A storm brought down a large oak tree in my backyard. Fortunately it did not hit anything important, but smashed a few smaller trees and made quite a mess. I started cutting it up, but this will take a while. It is good exercise though.

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It is starting to look like spring when I see how green the hills are becoming. But I am reminded that it is still winter when I need to go somewhere in the mornings and have to scrape the ice off the car.

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I wrote an article for those of you who speak German about experimental airplane projects in USA. It was published in the OUV yearbook 2024. The OUV is an organization in Germany that assists aircraft homebuilders with their projects. It also happens to be an EAA chapter.

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I went flying locally in this quite chilly January weather.

I admired the 3 tough pilots that visited our airport in their open cockpit airplanes.

They had flown over from Lodi, which is a short hop for me but a long cross country in these very slow machines. They told me that they often landed the two amphibious Quicksilvers on the nearby lake. In summer, that is hard to beat for fun.

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I finally got around to flying in 2025 in Caro 1, after a rainy and foggy period. This was just a local flight. It looked hazy to the south and west, but clear in the other directions.

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