Broadway and Beechcraft
Over the July 4th weekend, we made a trip to Wichita to visit my Aunt Gwen but the timing was bad due to my broken leg. We really couldn't do much. We did notice they had a dinner theatre called the Crown Uptown that was going to have "I Love You, Your Perfect... Now Change", something we wanted to see in NYC but choked on the price, so we made plans to return to Wichita.
We departed Ottawa around 4:00 with the OAT being 97 degrees. It was bumpy down low so I planned to climb to 7500 but a layer of scattered clouds forced us on up to 9500. We picked up flight following as usual. (OAT was 61 degrees at 9500) We landed at Colonel Jabara Airport, unloaded and headed to the show. Dinner was OK and the show was pretty good. It's sorta like 19 little skits rolled into one big show. Some good singing and pretty funny scenes.
Big clouds at 7500
Crown Uptown theatre
Saturday morning we got up early and headed back out to the airport to give my Aunt Gwen a ride in the RV. She's a pilot as well but really has flown much in years. I think she got a pretty good kick out of the RV.
Gwen works for Raytheon (Beechcraft) and we asked her if we could get a tour of one of the production lines. She hit a home run and got us a personal tour of Plant IV where they do assembly of the Hawker, Premier and King Air lines. Our tour guide was the director of Hawker Assembly Operations, David Nield. David was a really great guy. We got an up close tour of each production line... Hawker 400XP/800/850XP, Premier 1 (all composite), King Airs, and the Hawker 4000, their newest jet.
End of assembly lines at Raytheon
After a little more socializing (and maybe a short nap) we headed back home, stopping for fuel on the way back. The Kansas summer heat kept us in mild turbulence most of the way, which wasn't making Sandi to happy.
We'll be attending a local RV Flyin on the 26th at Grain Valley, MO and then we'll make the big trip to Aurora, OR for Van's Homecoming. Looks like Mike Schipper will be going along with us as well.
We departed Ottawa around 4:00 with the OAT being 97 degrees. It was bumpy down low so I planned to climb to 7500 but a layer of scattered clouds forced us on up to 9500. We picked up flight following as usual. (OAT was 61 degrees at 9500) We landed at Colonel Jabara Airport, unloaded and headed to the show. Dinner was OK and the show was pretty good. It's sorta like 19 little skits rolled into one big show. Some good singing and pretty funny scenes.
Saturday morning we got up early and headed back out to the airport to give my Aunt Gwen a ride in the RV. She's a pilot as well but really has flown much in years. I think she got a pretty good kick out of the RV.
Gwen works for Raytheon (Beechcraft) and we asked her if we could get a tour of one of the production lines. She hit a home run and got us a personal tour of Plant IV where they do assembly of the Hawker, Premier and King Air lines. Our tour guide was the director of Hawker Assembly Operations, David Nield. David was a really great guy. We got an up close tour of each production line... Hawker 400XP/800/850XP, Premier 1 (all composite), King Airs, and the Hawker 4000, their newest jet.
After a little more socializing (and maybe a short nap) we headed back home, stopping for fuel on the way back. The Kansas summer heat kept us in mild turbulence most of the way, which wasn't making Sandi to happy.
We'll be attending a local RV Flyin on the 26th at Grain Valley, MO and then we'll make the big trip to Aurora, OR for Van's Homecoming. Looks like Mike Schipper will be going along with us as well.
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