Celebrating 100 years as licensed pilots, women fly 2400 miles to Frederick, MD.

Celebrating 100 years as licensed pilots, women fly 2400 miles to Frederick, MD.

See Barb and I on TV!!

Score time - Saturday June 26

Barb and I met with the scorers today. We are satisfied with our score, so we signed it off. We will find out tomorrow if we actually won any leg prizes - we sure did not place in the top 5! But we did pretty well on a couple of legs.
We are off to the airport, to work with the Girl Scouts for a little while, then visit downtown historic Fredrick. Ice Cream for lunch!
Maureen

June 25 - we arrive in Fredrick, MD

Classic Racer # 37 arrived in Fredrick, MD today at the terminus of the Air Race Classic. We got here at 3 pm, after flying two legs - Elkhart to Parksberg and Parksberg to Fredrick. We have had a full and exciting day. We tied down the plane and registered, then took our rental car and wandered around Fredrick, MD until we found the hotel. We went back to the airport, no problem. Barbecue and greeting with other flyers. Then we got turned around - not really lost - returning to the hotel. Its much easier to find stuff when you are in the air!

June 24 - Hot Springs to Cammeron, MO, to Carbondale, IL to Elkhart IN

Classic Racer #37 is back on schedule! We made it to Elkhart Indiana where we are spending the night. We did three legs, 850+ miles, today. Tomorrow will be a short day. I will post pictures from the past two days when we get to Fredrick. We expect to be at the terminus by about 1pm. Time for bed! I am too tired now to even find the camera!
Maureen

June 23 - Waycross to Tuscaloosa to Hot Springs in one afternoon

Race #37 made it to Hot Springs, Arkansas today! No small feat,since we started at 3 pm, after the plane repairs were completed, and flew two legs. It was nearly 600 miles. . We left Classic Racer 29 behind - we hope they catch up tomorrow.

Tuesday, June 22 - Race start day

Classic Racer #37 (us) and #29 (another Cherokee) are spending the night in Waycross. GA. A bit of trivia - Waycross is home to the Okefenokee Swamp!

We are waiting for a new vacuum pump, they are waiting for a new gasket. We may not get out of here till noon tomorrow. sigh. We had a very good first leg, an adequate fly-by - but the vacuum pump failed about 30 miles south of Waycross. We lost suction and we loast the heading indicator and the turn and bank / artificial horizon.

Barb flew the timing line using the compass and the gps. A mechanic met us and did his best to get a pump locally - none available. So we wait for one to be sent overnight. Meanwhile, we asked for directions to a launder-mat. One of the local ladies insisted on taking our laundry home with her, and we are taking her out to dinner tonight. Classic 29 racers are here, too. They need a new gasket somewhere in their engine. We are hoping it all gets done early tomorrow, but the odds are in favor of a noon departure. So I will close this message and go back to flight planning. The people of Waycross are awesome!

Maureen

Monday June 21

No pictures today. We spend the day in briefing meetings, going over the fly-by instructions for each of the airports on our route. Our first stop tomorrow will be Waycross, GA, where we spent the night of Friday last. We will re-fuel and fly on to Tuscaloosa to spend the night, weather permitting. Barb re-flew the handicap flight this morning, with one of the judges. Our handicap is 115.54 - second smallest handicap! We had a severe thunderstorm again this afternoon, and the power was out for a few hours. Thank goodness pilots carry flashlights! In fact, it is storming again right now, and we may be in for another outage. We had Coldstone ice cream for dinner.
Maureen