Tom Parkes Lancair ES with turbo three rotor.
Second from left is Mike Wills, Tom Parkes and Chuck Dunlap.
The rest of you guys will have to identify yourselves :)
Chuck flew in too but I failed to get a picture of his 13B powered
RV6. I did get a picture of the part that caused his off airport
landing. Chuck's engine swallowed this pin out of one of the six port
valves while he was 12K above sea level over the Grand Canyon. Nearest
airport was was 21 miles away at about 6K AGL. Chuck nearly made
it but had to put it down on a road narrowly missing a truck coming
the other way. No injuries and with but slight damage to his RV6.
Good work Chuck.
Tracy Crook was due to give a talk but it was IFR all over the South East.
More about the third one shortly.
We still had three rotary powered airplanes at the modest sized air show.
It was hotter than hades out there. They should move that air show to
January and they would get a lot more snow birds not to mention being cooler
than 100 F in the shade.
