9/11 Cessa at the National Museum of the Air Force!

Look how tiny it is under the B-36!

This weekend's CAP exercise.

Preparing solar eclipse glasses for the upcoming eclipse on April 8th.

(All pics taken courtesy of Altair).

Lots of glasses!

In progress.

Can you spot our Airman?

Pretty good turnout and they all got pizza from Costco.

Bundled glasses ready for the eclipse mission on the 8th.

Patches from last fall and the next mission.  So cool!

100% this!

 

Bike humor.

 

St. Patrick's Day hike and dinner.

What a lovely day yesterday!

Checking out the new trail network up Butterfield Canyon.

Almost bike ready.

We ended up on the road after finding muddy trails further up.

Skyler not thrilled to be out.

Home corned beef slow cooked while we played.  

First beer of 2024 for me, a Guiness.  Yuck!  I'll stay on the wagon for now, thank you.

Big river!

If I was dumb enough to build a house near the Jordan River, I'd be rather concerned about losing my basement let alone my entire house in the next few months!

106th South overpass.

Whoa.

Lots of snow up in the mountains still, Utah Lake is at capacity, 100% full.

114th South pedestrian bridge.

 

Way to go!

More Squadron awards!

If only there was a place to display them!

Utah Squadron of The Year award!

Good job!

At the Utah Wing Conference yesterday. Skyler had a great time he said.

 

Happy International Women's Day!

Here's to the fiercest and strongest woman I know!

Here's to all women! 🍻

 

Close to a week of work.

The Tamiya F4U "Birdcage" Corsair is coming along nicely.  It's a real pleasure to work on such a finely engineered kit.

1/32 scale Pratt & Whitney R2800.

Can you spot the company logo?

Back side.

Compete with intake and exhaust pipes.

Spare no expense!

Skyler's Civil Air Patrol squadron had to switch buildings due to a contract change with the National Guard.  Now they are across the street from the armory in the Army Aviation facility.  Talk about fancy!

Patches under glass, and pilots of the year names on the Huey tailrotor.

P.T. was on the ramp!

Main hangar.  Blackhawk helicopters in for maintenance.

Look at the toolboxes!

High water!

 The State is releasing tons of water into the Jordan River from Utah lake due to last year and this year's excessive snowpack.  As a result, the river is raging!

Water on the trail near Gardner Village.

I don't think I've ever seen the river this full or running this fast.

Full!

Pausing to film the TRAX train passing over the bridge.

Water level under the rail bridge.

Pile-O-nuggets.

Despite being almost 13(!), he still loves his chicken nuggets!

He knew I was taking this picture, he's really not sad at all. :)

100%!

 

Yep.

Drone Academy practicing.

Since Altair joined the CAP as a senior member, she's been tasked with helping with the Drone Academy training for the cadets.  Part of this is flying any kind of drone for 4 hours.(!)  She got about 30 minutes in Saturday despite the windy conditions. 

Getting ready to fly.  He was acting like a butt.

First try.

Flying!

He brought his RC airplane and flew it too.

Go Navy!

WOW!

1/32nd scale amazingness!

I started on the Tamiya 1/32 scale Vought F4 "Birdcage" Corsair last weekend. Whoa.  The detail is insane!

100% stock, no aftermarket parts in the cockpit.  Wow!

Another holiday, another reason to eat some beef!

Valenitne's Day is pretty low key around here after 22 years.  I did however make a delicious Prime Rib for the occasion.

100% USDA prime beef from Costco!

Not shown, the delicious pre-dinner spinach salad withe blue cheese crumbles and dressing. Yum!

 

First Sergeant, report!

 He is now in charge of Bravo Flight.

Senior Cadet Sponsor.

Altair has now joined the Civil Air Patrol as a Cadet Sponsor to Skyler.  She's always willing to help out when needed, I'm just a little concerned she doesn't have the time to spare.

Complete with a Senior Member uniform!