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Flew over to Indy Regional for a family get together. Loggable approaches both ways. We were rushing to get out before some storms hit this evening, but "Airship 3A" asked us to hold short for a couple minutes while they landed and got tied up, so we obliged.
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Jim K said:
Hat tip, @mrsjimk who captured this one, climbing out of GRB:

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Are those @mrsjimk ’s nose prints on the lower forward part of the window, or one of the K-let’s?
 
Whatever happened, nice job in getting it down in one piece.
 
kaiser said:
oh no!!! what happened!!!???
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I suffered a big drop in power during climb then was not able to maintain altitude to get to the nearest airfield. Other than having to suddenly pitch the nose down to get under a pair of wires at the last moment, it was relatively uneventful compared to other possible outcomes. Turned out an induction coupling clamp was too loose to keep the coupling in place. The decrease in upper deck pressure screwed with the fuel flow and problems ensued. A mechanic located the issue and we had it fixed within an hour of his arrival...then I flew it off the highway with the blessing of the FSDO investigator and help with traffic control from the neighbors. It was a lovely evening for an off field, all in all. :rofl:
 
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Flew up to Door County, WI and then back home. 3.5hrs. This flight reminded me, I need to buy another log book and backfill it with all my flights. That is going to take a while. I haven't made an entry in my logbook since Oshkosh 2025.

Door County (KSUE)
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I'm thinking this airfield had to be for model airplanes or tiny ultralights or something. No way a normal plane would fly from there. Just north of Manitowac in WI.
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ArrowFlyer86 said:
I'm thinking this airfield had to be for model airplanes or tiny ultralights or something. No way a normal plane would fly from there. Just north of Manitowac in WI.
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You got me curious, and I found it - I used your other pictures to determine the sun angle, then used the shadows to figure out that this pic was taken from the northwest of the field, looked on Google Maps for an east-west road north of Manitowoc with the right tree pattern on either side, and found it at 3716 E. Hillcrest Rd. in Two Rivers.

On street view, you can just barely read the sign - It's for Manitwo Flyers Ltd RC Club. Their Facebook page says the runways are 750'.
 
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flyingcheesehead said:
You got me curious, and I found it - I used your other pictures to determine the sun angle, then used the shadows to figure out that this pic was taken from the northwest of the field, looked on Google Maps for an east-west road north of Manitowoc with the right tree pattern on either side, and found it at 3716 E. Hillcrest Rd. in Two Rivers.

On street view, you can just barely read the sign - It's for Manitwo Flyers Ltd RC Club. Their Facebook page says the runways are 750'.
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Ha. Nice sleuthing. We have one like that in Monticello, il. 800x50. I always wanted to land the cessna on it. A bunch of the Hobbico guys fly their toys there. The 1/4 scale stuff they fly is mind blowing. It approaches full scale airplane money.
 
Nice airport hopping flight down to Middlesboro, although hot AF.
Final at 1A6, had to circle to climb out with the temps. It's supposedly a meteor crater, and is fogged over a lot. Got there just as it was gone.
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Lake Cumberland
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Not a lot of places to land softly down in this area, but worth the risk.
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Trying to imagine how many tics are in there...
 
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