Well, it's a nice day here at Trenton Robbinsville and Mr. Hoover said it was ok to take 'er around the patch.......

Let me see now, master, mags, fuel selector, starter switches etc etc are up above here....mixture and props forward...brakes set.

Clear left.....

Clear right.......beacon and avionics on...looking good so far....warm up the engines. Gauges look normal.

Let's go before he changes his mind.....check the brakes....Robbinsville Unicom Commander five zero zero Romeo Alpha taxiing to runway two niner Robbinsville.

Check the mags and cycle the props....trim set.....controls free and easy

All lined up and ready for takeoff RWY 29. Checks complete. Robbinsville traffic Commander five zero zero Romeo Alpha taking off runway two niner Robbinsville departing east. Here we go. Bring up the power slowly....track straight down the runway as we quickly accelerate.

And......rotate!

Positive rate of climb.......

Gear up.....

Up up and away! Flaps up. 

Let's head east. That's the Delaware River behind us. Boy what a rate of climb! Man, I thought the Hiperlight went up pretty quick but this baby's a rocket. Let's close those cowl flaps. Don't want to overcool the engines.

Yup just around the patch. See ya later Bob. Maybe I'll fly over Perl and buzz the Buzzards.

Don't see any activity down there, let's keep on going towards the coast


That's Allaire over there to the left

And that's Lakewood to my right....


Glad I brought my shades. That sun is bright.

It's not every day that I get this opportunity to fly a famous aircraft owned by a just as famous aviator. This baby really scoots along so I need to watch that airspeed. What's Vne I wonder? Here we are heading south over the Barnegat Bay at about 3400' just past the Seaside Bridge. That's Island Beach State Park just off the nose. Up ahead is the lighthouse and inlet. Didn't take long at all to get down here. Think I'll call up in a bit to get a clearance thru the Atlantic City Class C and grab a burger at Ocean City. Bob must have figured out by now that I'm having too much fun to come right back. What could possibly go wrong on a day like this?

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