C-45 Catalina Fly In 7-18

Here is a shot of us landing the C-45 at Catalina's "Airport in the Sky" yesterday around 1130am. We had planned to fly over with Dave in his T-28A but he had canopy emergency extension problems, so he bagged out. Greg was flying over some folks from work in his Cardinal and he was delayed by the weather (weather was solid overcast from Montgomery to Catalina. Gillespie (our airport) was clear all day, as way Catalina. You can see the "undercast" below the airport (1602 ft above see level) in the background. A hiker heard the radials, and hurried to the airport to get this dramatic photo of us nearly touching down. (Any landing in this plane is dramatic BTW). We had a full plane load of people. Warren joined Janet and Christian and I as well as Jessica and Buddy - some new friends we met that morning. We did hook up with Greg who finally got out of Montgomery and made it over. After a nice meal at the Airport Cafe, we headed back to Gillespie and put the C-45 away (it needs a good bath especially the flap area behind the engines. Later that day we took up Mikael and a friend in the Navion for a tour of East County! Hopefully the weather continues to be nice for flying. Next up is the Point Mugu Airshow in 2 weeks!