Sun&Fun
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litefly@att.net
Sun&Fun
Well, I did fly over to S&F from just outside of Gainesville, FL. on Sat. I landed about 11am after a quite pleasent flight. It was a warm, sunny day. There was still some evidence of the turmoil and damage of the storm. However, I saw long lines of cars arriving at the parking lots, the Paradise City runway was in full operation. It all seemed alive and functioning. Plenty of people were walking around,looking,hopefully buying. Mark was there at the HKS tent talking to Kess. We all three walked over to my J2 Gull where Mark gave me a quick check, some suggestions and advice, all very welcome. The HKS folks wanted me to park in their exibit space, but I was not prepaired to stay, (no tie downs) and did not want to risk having to stay overnight. So, before the field was closed for the air show, I left for home. My return flight was in midday FL. thermals and wind gusts. The Gull handled it all beautifully.
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blaswichk
Re: Sun&Fun
Well I'm home after a very long Alaska Airlines flight from Orlando to Seattle. They delayed our departure due to a line of heavy weather from Louisianna to the north.
Sun-N-Fun was the scariest freaking event of my life. We were in the used A/C parts tent, and only about 100 feet from one of the tornado paths. Minutes later the sky cleared briefly and we went out on a photo mission. We saw the 45 planes crunched including 3 Air-Cams merged as one, and a Cessna Caravan upside down. Some booths just disappeared. The light-flight area didn't have as many lost planes, but a Quicksilver looked like it was compressed to fit into a Smart Car.
I will post a link to our pic's as soon as we get the site up.
Praise God that Mark was on top of the weather and stayed outside. He came in late Saturday afternoon in calm beautiful weather, and I had a great visit with him. Fred Gayford was there with his motorhome, and I visited with the pilot of the Bay Guard J2 Gull before he departed.
kb
Sun-N-Fun was the scariest freaking event of my life. We were in the used A/C parts tent, and only about 100 feet from one of the tornado paths. Minutes later the sky cleared briefly and we went out on a photo mission. We saw the 45 planes crunched including 3 Air-Cams merged as one, and a Cessna Caravan upside down. Some booths just disappeared. The light-flight area didn't have as many lost planes, but a Quicksilver looked like it was compressed to fit into a Smart Car.
I will post a link to our pic's as soon as we get the site up.
Praise God that Mark was on top of the weather and stayed outside. He came in late Saturday afternoon in calm beautiful weather, and I had a great visit with him. Fred Gayford was there with his motorhome, and I visited with the pilot of the Bay Guard J2 Gull before he departed.
kb
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rahulchoudhary73
Re: Sun&Fun
touchwood, i was worried too. saw a single liner news item via a CNN
tweet about a tornado in Orlando just after it struck, the page was
puzzling without any details whatsoever. next day the videos came
in... looks like it takes a teragrid to predict such local
disturbances accurately, http://pti.iu.edu/d2i/leadII-home
rc
tweet about a tornado in Orlando just after it struck, the page was
puzzling without any details whatsoever. next day the videos came
in... looks like it takes a teragrid to predict such local
disturbances accurately, http://pti.iu.edu/d2i/leadII-home
rc