The Ultralight Experience

My Peach made the long trip home without a scratch. For the following two weeks she lived in the garage, entertained curious visitors, underwent minor maintenance and came to love the sounds of hangar flying and clinking Corona bottles.

Then it was off to her new home, The Flyin-H-Farm, where the grass is green and the sky is blue and wide. No, there are no beaches in Libertytown, Maryland USA, but except for that, everything else is superior.

With most of the hard work now over, the fun has really begun. All I have to do is drive to the field, push her out, give her a good pre-flight, then turn the key and go. Each and every flight remains a fun and exciting learning experience and rewards my decision to get back in the air. Life is extremely good.


	In Shangri La, there are no concrete runways, just 2000 feet of grass with no obstructions. It's also central to the many country airports and private strips of a closely knit flying community.
	It's a barn, it's a hangar, and it's home. But it's temporary, since other trikes are on the way and a new, six-trike hangar is being planned. Yes, there are other airplanes kept at this field but it's only the trikes that seem to actually fly. Go figure.
	Six months after my first ride in JB's GTE, my Peach now parks alongside. (Not shown: Jessie, the barn cat, who sleeps in trikes and defends them from all critters.)
	Though it may look like a low-level buzz of the field for onlookers, it's really "practice". Onlookers do agree on one thing, though - that the Peach is the quietest airplane any of them have ever heard.
	Yes, I actually let others play with my trike, but only if they're trained, qualified, and friends. It also gives me a chance to make some photos that I'll depend upon to get me through the winter.
	These trike thugs know about trikes, but they don't know Nikons. Photographically, this is called a "pan shot" - shutter speed 1/15 second, aperture automatic, ISO 100, no digital manipulation. The result is captured motion. Go ahead, click it...