Addison Airport
Addison, Texas
18 October 1998
10:30am-ish

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted. — Cecil Day Lewis



 
 
 
 
 
 

World War II trainer, crop duster and air show performer, the Stearman Kaydet.  This one is the Navy trainer version, N2S-4.  It is owned and maintained by
The Cavanaugh Flight Museum.

For my birthday present I bought myself a ride in this biplane.  I had to keep my feet off the rudder, and hands off the stick, but it was still great.  There's nothing like open cockpit flying.

 

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



 
 
 
 
 
 

On the ramp, we had to wait for the museum's Grumman TBM-3E Avenger to take off ahead of us.
And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.

— E. B. Jeppesen

 

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

— Amelia Earhart



 
 
 
 
 

Sittin' in the front seat.  The pilot sits in the back seat.

Enjoying smooth flying at 3000 feet.

 

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one!

 — Gerald R. Massie, U.S. Army Air Forces photographer. Written in 1944 after the crash-landing of his B-17.



 
 
 
 
 
 

Flying over my neighborhood.
Those who are able to walk on stilts can roam the earth unstopped by mountains or rivers. They are able to imagine flying and therefore reach the isles of the immortals.

— P'ao-Pou Tseu

 

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
for there you have been, and there you will  always long to return.

— Leonardo da Vinci



 
 
 
 
 
 

Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime.

 — Pancho Barnes, quoted in 'The Happy Bottom Riding Club - The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes,' by Lauren Kesler.

 

In the loop.  We were only able to do one loop before the weather moved in and lowered the ceiling.  Rats.  We did buzz the house of one of the pilot's friends.

 
 
 

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.

— Pierre Auguste Renoir, regards Leonardo Da Vinci



 
 
 
 
 
 


Ultralight Flight
Piper Flight
Helicopter Flight

 
What he said
Say Hello

The Cavnaugh Flight Museum
 

There is an art . . . to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

— Douglas Adams, 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'.
 
 
 

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