The picnic weather continued through Saturday. Not quite hot enough to call it off and go jump in the lake, but almost. Cloudbase was low, barely 4000 feet, and the lift was spotty. The A-team (Skip, Evan, Tim) flew their fancy gliders locally, but nobody was brave enough to fly off into the murk. The rest of us (Jon, Tom, Andy, Andy) enjoyed lessons in the Blanik. It was nice having 4 towpilots on the field today. Come to think of it, it was nice just having a towplane. The installation of the new oil cooler was completed last night, thanks to you-know-who.
We were visited today by friends Rob and Christian Buck, in their Cessna 170. At the beginning of the day, we discovered that we had left the Blanik back seat cushions at Franconia last weekend. No problem. Rob and Christian flew there and retrieved them for us. We owe them! In the meantime, we flew the Blanik with the seat cushion from Tim's Champ in the back. It worked quite well, as long as you left the gear down.
We missed a chance for a cookout Saturday evening. Wait till next week!
On Sunday Tim, Skip, Tom, Thomas, and Kevin showed up, but there was no flying due to the drizzly weather. Tom patched and sanded the nose of the 2-33, Thomas and Skip worked on Blanik instruments, and Tim reinstalled the seat in his airplane.
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