f1rocket
Well Known Member
My son and I just completed our last long cross country trip of the season. I wanted to go to Maine so I could check off another dozen or so states from my list of visits. We'd been watching the weather for several weeks and the weather in New England just refused to break. Finally on Thursday of last week, it looked like we might be able to make it out and back within the weather window.
Here, my son and I prepared to leave from home. The weather in Indiana has been perfect for almost a week, sunny and no wind. My son is not small, so we were a tad overweight but as the fuel burned off, we remained within the flight envelope.
Rather than take a direct route, we had to angle towards Washington DC in order to avoid mountain obscuration over the mountains in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. Here we are cruising with the cumulous.
First stop was in West Virginia for fuel. I've never landed at an airport that didn't have ANYTHING to drink. Not even a water fountain. Oh well, we'll just push on. Our plan was to cross the mountains then fly up their eastern flank past Philly and into New York to fly up the Hudson past Manhattan. This has always been a bucket item for me. Here we are approaching the corridor from the South over the Verrazano Narrows bridge. Getting a little anxious because the traffic volume is rather significant.
Past the Statue of Liberty. We did not hang out here, lots of helicopter traffic. Snapped a few pictures as we passed by.
Going North we flew up the east side of the Hudson, right past ground zero and the new World Trade tower.
From here, we re-fueled in Connecticut. We were so hungry that we had a local Italian restaurant deliver some sandwiches to us at the airport. We had to snarf them down in order to depart in time to make it to the Knox County airport on Owls Head, Maine by dusk. I've got a neat video of us landing at dusk and I'll try and get some frame snaps from it. We picked up our rental car and went in search of a local hotel. Overall this day we covered over a thousand miles and spent about 8.5 hours in the air.
Here, my son and I prepared to leave from home. The weather in Indiana has been perfect for almost a week, sunny and no wind. My son is not small, so we were a tad overweight but as the fuel burned off, we remained within the flight envelope.
Rather than take a direct route, we had to angle towards Washington DC in order to avoid mountain obscuration over the mountains in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. Here we are cruising with the cumulous.
First stop was in West Virginia for fuel. I've never landed at an airport that didn't have ANYTHING to drink. Not even a water fountain. Oh well, we'll just push on. Our plan was to cross the mountains then fly up their eastern flank past Philly and into New York to fly up the Hudson past Manhattan. This has always been a bucket item for me. Here we are approaching the corridor from the South over the Verrazano Narrows bridge. Getting a little anxious because the traffic volume is rather significant.
Past the Statue of Liberty. We did not hang out here, lots of helicopter traffic. Snapped a few pictures as we passed by.
Going North we flew up the east side of the Hudson, right past ground zero and the new World Trade tower.
From here, we re-fueled in Connecticut. We were so hungry that we had a local Italian restaurant deliver some sandwiches to us at the airport. We had to snarf them down in order to depart in time to make it to the Knox County airport on Owls Head, Maine by dusk. I've got a neat video of us landing at dusk and I'll try and get some frame snaps from it. We picked up our rental car and went in search of a local hotel. Overall this day we covered over a thousand miles and spent about 8.5 hours in the air.
