There is a small airfield on the Eastern Shore known as Campbell Field located in Weirwood. The have a regular even called “Soup on Sunday” and in the sumer it can be quite busy. This weekend was especially so. There were a number of Grummans, Cessnas, and Bonanzas as well a pair of Piper Cubs […]

This morning, after Zen’s business, breakfast, and start of her first nap … and my checking email, reading blogs, and deciding how to survive the heat … I head a familiar bird. I had not seen it around since last fall. I quickly ran outside to see if indeed it was back. Sure enough it […]

Pretty much any day you look up into the sky you will see one or more condensation trails - “contrails” - from jets flying from point “A” to point “B”. This long wispy white trails give you a pretty good idea of where the flight routes are in your area. Presumably, these routes are […]

I’ve been watching the restoration of this Stearman Model 40C mail plane for a few years now via the regular update on the internet. Just two days ago, it took flight once again.

This is the oldest Stearman flying in the world. It is also much bigger than it would appear in the photos. […]