Fly-in @ Rockhouse.

We are hosting a fly-in for some of our pilot friends here at the Rockhouse. It is a very good place to fly, weather permitting. However this year the weather hasn't permitted very much of anything other than naps. The lawn has had so much water on it that it is getting drowned. So far we are told that we have had 700 percent of normal rainfall. One of the guy's suggested That the old homesteads that are scattered around the remote areas were established during wet years such as we are having now. They might have done well while it lasted, but when it returned to normal, they starved out. I do know that there are some old homesteads in places that are remote to the extreme.

Our mainstay pilot is of course John Hauck from Alabama. Mike M from New Mexico, Gary H from Texas, Toby P from Coastal Oregon, Roger H came over from the west side of Oregon as well. Boyd Y who drove in from Utah, filled out the list of Pilots. Karen's Sister Pat, and niece Mici L came in on the train to complete our group. Another builder from Washington came down for one night.

I had asked every one to delay the gathering until the first week of June, hoping that the weather would moderate. Well it was better, but nothing to brag about. Some of the days were a bit windy, but we still got a lot of flying in. We flew as much as we could, and then retired to the big screen TV to look at each others photo's. below is one of the movies that I did of one of our flights. Unfortunately You Tube is being very strict about copy rights so there is not sound track with it. Feel free to either make motor noises or hum along with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT2TQh7H31M