Yesterday was our annual fall fish fry at the airport. The Thorp club was having a flyin at Kentucky Dam Resort and several of those guys flew down to eat at the invitation of our airport manager. We had about 20 T-18s, an RV-6A and an RV-7A show up. Bet you can guess which ones I spent the most time looking at... Also, a 1947 Piper PA-11 "Cub" showed up from Pirates Cove, a private airstrip at a campground nearby. I have inspected this airplane before and it's just beautiful! It's a '47 model and is *pristine*. No electrics, hand propped C-85 that purrs like a sewing machine. Just a really neat plane. Two two-ship formations of the T-18s came in and did overhead breaks right above me, which I enjoyed because I've never seen it before. Here's some pictures from the day.
As an aside, I did get to fly early Saturday morning and got my 90 day checkout with my CFI so I'm good to go again. Felt great to fly again and I plan on knocking out my long cross country soon.
This airplane I was told was an Oshkosh Grand Champion for plans-built aircraft. I can believe that because it was the best looking Thorp there.
This unique looking T-18 was very, very loud! That's because it has a very unusual engine in it. A 3.8L Ford v6! Pretty cool.
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