100 HOURS!

Saturday morning Sandi and I headed up to Lee's Summit Airport to help out with EAA Chapter 91 Young Eagles Event and to see the EAA's B-17 Aluminum Overcast. Sandi signed up to cook pancakes and I had signed up to fly but with the bum leg, grounded myself from flying kids, so I helped out at the registration table.

The first big highlight of the day was to see the B-17 fly. This is the first time I've seen a B-17 up close and personal and too see it start up and fly gave me the goose-bumps. Amazing! The pilots were having fun flying it as well... shortly after getting a litle altitude, the did a big left 270 degree turn to come back over thae airport.. and it couldn't have been more than a 1,000 foot off the ground.

The second hightlight of the day was when were rolled 100 HOURS just as we landed back home at Ottawa. That's 100 hours of flying in just over 5 months since first flight. The timing works out pretty good as I need to do an oil change and am going to do sort-of 100 hour inspection plus I have a laundry list of things to work on. Hopefully I'll get this cast off my leg this week and can spend the next two weekends getting through my list before we head up to Oshkosh.