The view at the lake on a weekday is a lone unoccupied fish shack, and an occasional snowmobile.
Taking advantage of yesterday's sunny and warm day, the pilot and his flight instructor landed on the lake to grab a spare headset from home, then posed and admired.
This belies the terror at the moment of landing and shortly thereafter, bouncing over frozen snowmobile tracks, roaring through slushy snow, struggling to keep the front of the airplane from nosing over, and the noise, the noise! Oh, yeah, no headsets.
Looks deceptively peaceful and romantic.
Citabria is airbatic spelled backwards.
ReplyDeleteIt can sustain +5g to -2g.
It was initially designed and produced by Champion Aircraft in Osceola, Wisconsin in 1964.
5238 planes were built.
The service ceiling is 12000 ft.
It weighs 1100 lbs.
Older aircraft had wooden spars.
So it is a stomach churning, cheesehead designed, combined weight of 2 Harley Davidson Fat Boys, just a few years younger than the pilot, that can't land on Uncompahgre Peak partial paper airplane. Looks to me like your next adventure is sitting out on the ice.