Floatplane Weekend | Takeoff over the Townhouses The Super Cub has plenty of power to takeoff over the townhouses nestled in the lake shore woods. Looking back, hopefully next year will bring better flying weather. See Floatplane Weekend | a 7 Image Story for the whole story.
Floatplane Weekend | Hanger Flying Sure, this gathering may look like a party. Well, maybe a little partying and a lot of hanger flying. The flying stories may sometimes get a bit exaggerated. See Floatplane Weekend | a 7 Image Story for the whole story.
Floatplane Weekend | Hank in a Super Cub Yep, yours truly trying to act like a bush pilot. Hey, these float planes are fun to fly, particularly for us Midwest flatlanders. See Floatplane Weekend | a 7 Image Story for the whole story.
Floatplane Weekend | Alan Docking a Super Cub He sure looks good as he docks the Super Cub. He’s a pretty good pilot too. See Floatplane Weekend | a 7 Image Story for the whole story.
Floatplane Weekend | PA-18 on Floats Landing Northern Michigan provides some beautiful backgrounds when capturing floatplane images. This Super Cub on short final reminds one that the call to the wild is not far away. See Floatplane Weekend | a 7 Image Story for the whole story.
Floatplane Weekend | Fearless Leader Rick Rick loves to fly; particularly float planes and ski planes. He has been much of the driving force behind Floatplane Weekend and Ski Plane Weekend for many years. See Floatplane Weekend | a 7 Image Story for the whole story.
Floatplane Weekend | Super Cub on Floats This Piper Super Cub is taking off by lifting one float up first then the other. Wonder how the Super Cub got such a distinctive N number. See Floatplane Weekend | a 7 Image Story for the whole story.
Floatplane Weekend | a 7 Image Story On the weekend before Oshkosh, a small group of some of the world’s finest pilots, ranging from military pilots to heavy iron pilots to bush pilots, get together for back to the basics float plane flying. I’m honored to just fly with such incredible pilots. The PA-18 Piper Super Cub, Alaska’s favorite bush plane, makes for great fun. Yea, just squint your eyes a bit, dream a little, and think of a beautiful Alaska water landing in the middle of nowhere. Oh my, wake up today and land on a nice clear Michigan lake. It’s going back to grass-roots flying; flying stick and rudder in float planes.
This weekend’s weather reminded me of southeast Alaska weather; low clouds, mist, rain; bush pilot weather. In fact, the ceilings were so low, very little flying was possible. These images come from past years when the weather was better. Normally, my images do not include many people. This annual weekend event is all about the pilots so I have included a few in this story. Looking back, hopefully next year will bring better flying weather, new flying stories, and more great pilots.
Each image will be posted individually this week with a bit more narrative under category Floatplane Weekend.
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