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What do you do when you finish flying off your Kitfox’s 40 hour test flight requirement? You get 20 of your friends and 16 airplanes and head out into the Arizona desert for a breakfast of biscuits and gravy, fresh monkey bread, rolls, bacon, muffins and coffee all around a nice campfire. Beautiful morning in the desert. Lots of flying and lots of aviation stories from some experienced aviators. We had several crop dusters, airshow performers who had flown with he greats like Bob Hoover. We had flight instructors, airline pilots and some rookies just getting their first tastes of aviation. Lots of aircraft builders sitting around that fire too.
By the way. My Kitfox is performing wonderfully. What a sweet flying ship. My wife said my GoPro mounts came in while I was flying off the last of my Phase one. Maybe some video one of these days. Keep building guys. 😀
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Awe man, I am jealous. Still no off airport landings nearly a year later.
Awesome! Looks fun. Eddie you will love it. One of the coolest things of owning a kitfox!
Air to air.
Salome, AZ
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Kevin’s model 6 breakfast at Wayside.
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Breakfast flight this morning.
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Took a two ship excursion yesterday north and west of Phoenix. This time of year around here you really need to be done flying by about 10 or 11 am. That’s about the time we took off so we discovered some very enthusiastic turbulence during the short flight. Attempted some some air to air photos. Not ideal conditions for close formation photography but got a few stand off shots of DesertDave’s model 6. Bumps or not, it was nice to get a little airtime again after Covid 19 induced aviation hiatus.
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Beautiful day to fly the Verde Valley area.
74 degrees and under 8 mph breezes.
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I recognize that plane. I had the pleasure to fly with Steve the other day. First time I ever got to fly as a "flight". Thanks for that trust Steve. Possibly my time sitting in the back of the Hueys and Blackhawks got me a bit too comfy in the slot.
I took my mom to Sedona for lunch on Wednesday. Coming home I found 45mph headwinds at 9000ft. 25mph at 5500 as terrain would allow me to descend.
You did great Eddie. Wish we had more time that day. Was kinda warm too. Come back soon. Lots left to show you.
We’ll get DesertDave and DesertFox1 to join in and maybe a few others and really test your formation skills.
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Quartzsite, AZ for breakfast Sunday morning. Nice flight with 10 aircraft from Indian Hills Airpark.
Flight back taking a detour through the mountains East of Quartzsite. No wind so flight was very smooth except what 7 other aircraft stirred up ahead of me.
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Photo by Murle Williams
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First use of a brand new desert strip today.
Sunrise breakfast fly out. Tomorrow 40 mph wind gusts forecast but today was perfect.
Couple of the guys camped out last night on the strip to do some astronomy photography.
They had the fire up and running when the rest of the aircraft arrived at sunrise.
An RV-4 popped in to do a nice airshow. A low pass by a C-130 capped off the morning.
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The crew discovers a new STOL landing spot.
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Where? I’ll be out putting around tomorrow.😁
I don’t have the coordinates at home with me Russ. Would be happy to take you out there sometime.
Looking forward to it Clark.👍
One of our favorite desert strips, Crooked Tree, is a favorite sunrise breakfast fly out for the ladies too.
After breakfast a group photo with the girls, and the tree, of course.
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More food than could be consumed. Eggs and bacon over the campfire.
A low fly by from a C130 and a couple fast movers too. Likely F-22s but a little too far away to tell.
Crooked Tree is just a couple miles outside a military restricted area so government sponsored air airshows are frequent albeit very brief.
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Only about half of the airplanes that assembled for sunrise breakfast in the desert.
Looks like fun! Cool spot!
Mining strip West of Lake Alamo.
Very smooth except right at the parking end and great place for a very quiet breakfast stop.
Bring you own breakfast of course.
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This landing “spot” is called “The Chain” for obvious reason.
Left here by the Army Corps of Engineers prior to WW2.
when they used this Navy anchor chain to clear a large area of desert brush for a flood water control project.
They pulled it between two D-8 dozers to remove trees and brush from the work area.
Some locals used two Jeeps to form it into a heart design just recently. Chain has
Navy showing on some links still.
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This “strip” is called “The Arrow”.
My nose wheel is stopped on the beginning of the arrow.
It’s been here for many years but little if anything is know as to why it was placed here.
It points straight West. Maybe for early aviators heading from Phoenix to Los Angeles.
Just speculation but no idea really.
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We call this area “The Badlands”.
Reminds me of the South Dakota Badlands but on a slightly
smaller scale.
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This one way in/out spot is called “Gunsmoke”.
Maybe 600 feet long with rising terrain to the North.
Nice area to bring firearms for practice. Targets set up
on North slope.
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It’s now that time of year in the Desert Southwest when these guys become active again.
This was spotted by my son up in Cave Creek, AZ on his back patio.
Went to remove food from the grill and found it next to my granddaughter’s playpen.
It was given the right-of-way and soon after headed back to the untouched desert land behind the house.
These creatures and scorpions are two good reasons to keep outside door and garage seals in good condition.👍
Cool landing spots! Off airport landings are the best!!
Marble Canyon L41
https://youtu.be/b9FIq6e3L54
Sedona KSEZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhU4SqTnR00
Wayside Oasis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXMa0yySjKo
Very nice Brian. Thanks for posting. I need to make it to Marble Canyon for sure.
Out and about in Central AZ for a little lunch and shooting.
Kitfox headed down the runway
Wonderful shot!