BAF - Laney's 10/13/07

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Laney's Fly-in - October 13, 2007

Caution - Man running (with) power tools

One of my favorite small grass strips in the Charlotte area is Laneys (N92). It is 2,000 feet long by 100 feed wide with power lines on both ends. Even with the challenges this strip presents there were probably close to 100 planes in attendance. Charley Laney who owns the field is the nicest guy you would ever want to meet. Twice each year he hosts a fly-in BBQ lunch that is free to all and ALL come. Pilots and non-pilots come to see the planes, old tractors, hit-or-miss engines, etc. They even had an old duce and a half giving people rides.

Probably the only real issue with the fly-in is that people are always walking across the field and non-pilots don't realize that the airplanes have the right of way. I've seen some close calls, lucky for me, they haven't been while I'm sitting in my plane.

E Tyler and Jen gave us this t-shirt for Torque after the first flight and we thought we would use this fly-in as a test to see how well he did riding in the back of the -9.

F As it turned out, he traveled very well. He even fell asleep on the return flight. Since this flight went so well, we are going to buy him some doggie earmuffs (Muttmuffs) to protect his hearing. Not that he listens to us anyway. The only issue we had was getting him into the plane. We had to remove the passenger seat so he could climb in back.

E Unfortunately we didn't take any pictures on final but Nora did snap this one while taking off.

F After departing we flew down Lake Norman on the way back to 28A.

E Upon landing it was time to change the oil. As these pictures show, I had lots of help.