Happy 28th!

So, this morning, I went out to fly my model airplane to commemorate it's 26th "birthday". I estimated its maiden flight to have taken place around Labor Day weekend in 1984 after recalling a journal entry I made back in 1984 (I believe). This evening, I just by chance came across a notebook with a journal entry from August 9, 1982, indicating that my new airplane was "basically completed." This is a different journal entry than the one I knew of, but this establishes the age of my airplane to be, not 26, but 28 years old, and likely first flew in August of 1982!

I flew a 28-year-old model airplane this morning! A model airplane that I built 28 years ago. How cool is that?

This must mean the other journal entry was referring to my second model airplane (which I also still have - another Balsa USA Swizzle Stick - it just needs a tail wheel, some wing foam tape and an engine and it's back in the air!). My third airplane no longer exists (rest in pieces), but I still have the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh planes I built: the Force One delta, the pink & blue & white Stick 40, the Eagle II (retired), and the Hobby Hut Stick 40 (grounded due to internal structural failure in the wing).

I had some problems with getting the engine dialed in this morning, due to some factors, including bubbles forming in the fuel tank from vibration. But I got a couple of good flights in. Then the air got tricky, and I packed it in and went home, picked up my wife, and we spent the rest of the day soaking in the Yuba River.

Another successful weekend under my belt.