Memorial Day weekend seemed like a good opportunity to take the kids flying | So Flynn and Guinness joined Pete for a flight to the airport at Port Townsend | It was a beautiful day, on a holiday weekend, and many interesting airplanes were about | One such was this nice Bellanca Crusair with its triple-rudder tail | There was also this Piper Cherokee with a beautiful Pacific Northwest scene painted on it | We parked our Lake Renegade between this Cessna 140, and a Beech Bonanza |
Then there was this classic Beech B50, and a little yellow Vans RV-6 homebuilt | The B50 looks a lot like a Cessna 310 | A Stinson 108 | A second Stinson 108. These both were traveling with the Crusair that day. | The three all left together, Crusair in the lead | The Stinsons still taxiing as the Crusair took off |
A pair of high-wing planes taking off together | One of the Stinson 108s just taking off | Then climbing out, Olympics in the background | The other Stinson’s turn | The Cherokee with a Cessna 195 beside it | Excellent lunch company and passengers, with the gliders from the restaurant |
The cattails were too tempting, and fluff wound up flying everywhere | Mount Baker was clearly visible | It’s only a twenty-minute flight back, but Guinness was zonked | The pilot in action | Hood Canal Bridge and surrounding area | A freighter passing by on Puget Sound |