08/06: Fun Times
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
The airport manager at our local airport and the president of our local COPA flight got together and organized a COPA for Kids day. A bunch of kids were invited to the airport to go flying. Ed was asked to help out and ended up being the "official photographer". Zaph and I stayed home and did chores.
Ed asked these kids what they were going to do .... you can see they were pretty excited about the prospect of going flying.
The pilots showed the kids the safety checks the pilots do before they go flying.
Outfitted with headsets and strapped into their seats they're off on an adventure.
Ed managed to sneak onto one of the flights. That's Walkerton from above .... find the oval track --- our house is above and to the right of the track in a little gap between the trees.
After the flying was over a second adventure began. A fellow who owns / co-owns a couple of hangers at the airport has a collection of old cars. Some of the cars are stored in the hangers at the airport others are stored at the "car farm". As luck would have it, he needed to move a couple of cars from the airport to the farm and Ed and Victor were there to volunteer to drive them. Ed called me so I joined them at the "car farm".
Don't know what it is but it's old. Anne and Victor arrived at the car farm in style. Anne said it "put-putted" along.
Ed was happy to drive this old Thunderbird.
Some of the cars stored at the car farm.
The 1969 Pace Car from the Indianapoilis 500 is one of Tony's latest purchases and it needed to be ferried back to the airport. We stopped at our house to drop my car off and take a few photos before the four of us climbed into the car and Victor drove us to the airport. Didn't the pace car look great in our driveway.
Ed asked these kids what they were going to do .... you can see they were pretty excited about the prospect of going flying.
The pilots showed the kids the safety checks the pilots do before they go flying.
Outfitted with headsets and strapped into their seats they're off on an adventure.
Ed managed to sneak onto one of the flights. That's Walkerton from above .... find the oval track --- our house is above and to the right of the track in a little gap between the trees.
After the flying was over a second adventure began. A fellow who owns / co-owns a couple of hangers at the airport has a collection of old cars. Some of the cars are stored in the hangers at the airport others are stored at the "car farm". As luck would have it, he needed to move a couple of cars from the airport to the farm and Ed and Victor were there to volunteer to drive them. Ed called me so I joined them at the "car farm".
Don't know what it is but it's old. Anne and Victor arrived at the car farm in style. Anne said it "put-putted" along.
Ed was happy to drive this old Thunderbird.
Some of the cars stored at the car farm.
The 1969 Pace Car from the Indianapoilis 500 is one of Tony's latest purchases and it needed to be ferried back to the airport. We stopped at our house to drop my car off and take a few photos before the four of us climbed into the car and Victor drove us to the airport. Didn't the pace car look great in our driveway.