School's out (straight A's for both kids so we broke down and got them Samsung Instincts for atta' boys since we're currently hooked into Sprint and Sprint just came out with a terriffic family share plan with unlimited internet, data, texting, music, gps, & TV in the offering), Chris went to the United Arab Emerites for work and there's been some flying done. She had a great time and was impressed with the people and facilities but 2 weeks was a bit much and they didn't get the contract signed so they'll have to go back in July. Homes seem to be pretty large, if you can afford it, to facilitate large families where the men and women intentionally spend time in separate rooms I guess 'cuz that's what seems to be the norm. There's a lot of interesting cultural tid bits. Just ask Chris about BMOs and the new Upper Darby in the UAE. Click here to see about 200 pictures of the visit. Yesterday Aaron and I flew (here's video of the new RV-8 paint scheme on arrival) to Lockhaven for the annual Piper (mostly Cubs) pilgrimage to tour the old factory and museum. Pretty funny going to a major fly-in and only seeing 2 RVs. I still haven't flown in a Cub or Vagabond! I've logged time in different versions of champs and Taylor Craft but have escaped the Cub lure so far. Here's a typical ground ops scene video next to the grass strip. Everitt flew the Wildcat there and here's a video of it landing. There's a low quality and high quality version, watch the high one. Here's another one of the Wildcat doing a slow flyby. Finally, one of the items that really caught my attention was a model of the LST set up to launch cubs back in WWII. I read about this before but the model really put things in perspective.
