My dad and I flew in from our home airport in Mississippi. The flight to Fayetteville only took about 3 hours, with a fuel stop meaning we rolled in just in time for lunch. We signed in and got our raffle tickets for the door prizes. This year there were Sonex T-shirts, 2' sensenich propeller clocks, a 50% off a Sport EX EFIS from GRT avionics certificate, and a certificate for a free elliptical Prince Prop. After catching up with old friends over tacos and brownies, we began the raffle. It was tense as the higher and higher prizes were awarded. One woman won a T-shirt but no one wanted to ask her size for fear of offending her! After the drawing there was a line of storms moving in so we took one final group picture and those who were flying southeast (away from the storm) took off. My dad and I rolled the plane into a hanger and sat back in the venue talking to those who stuck around. Mark, a Sonex Builder and F-16 pilot, generously gave me the 50% off certificate for the Sport EFIS that he won, this will be a great boost to gathering my instruments! Another builder, David Jones, who built his Onex with his father years ago gave me his Aerovee baffle kit, another part I would have needed to buy! There were also various extra parts builders brought to help out the community that I grabbed. Flap and brake lever handles, extra baffle pieces, etc.
after the storms ran their course and passed us by we departed to the north east, towards our new home.
In our final fuel stop we ran into the EAA Ford TriMotor!
This was a great example of the generous nature of the Sonex and aviation community in general! Big thank you's to everyone out there who has helped out their fellow builders, It's that kind of attitude that makes our community the best it can be!
(note on posts: I have several posts lined up to be released soon and I finally have a spare moment to polish them off and perfect them, stay tuned to hear all about the rest of my aerovee!)