Tuna (”Flightlab,” Atlantic Flyer, May 2007)
April 25th, 2007 . by Bill CrawfordGreetings from Wichita, where it rained pigs and cows yesterday (April 13, a Friday) and snowed last night. This morning’s forecast was for continued muck, but the sky keeps improving—in the sly, devious way that skies often do.
It took me six days to get the Zlin out here from Plymouth, Massachusetts. That included two nights spent snowed under in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and three nights in St. Louis, where local thunderstorms, alternating with Kansas boomers, kept the VFR Zlin in the hangar. The prize in Wichita is three weeks teaching aerobatics to test pilots at Cessna and Lear, and to corporate pilots at Koch Industries. Read the rest of this entry »