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The P-51 "Swamp Fox" starts up for her departure from the Triple Tree Aerodrome.
Extra fuel pooling in the exhaust manifold catches fire during starting. This is not unusual, but not typical either.
The CAF P-51 rounds out the turn to final and faces me head-on for an instant just before his high-speed pass at the Triple Tree Aerodrome.
Humidity in the air condenses at low-pressure area behind the propeller blade tips and creates a helical swirl behind the CAF P-51 Mustang as it accelerates forward on a morning flight at Triple Tree Aerodrome.
Carolina Soaring uses a winch to launch their Grob 103 in October 2013.
This photo was used for the cover of the January 2014 edition of Soaring magazine!
The dawn comes to the Triple Tree Aerodrome, just before the BT-13 takes off to wake everybody for the next glorious day of the fly-in. The CAF C-46 "Tinker Belle" is at the lower right.
The parking area during the June tailwheel and fabric lunch fly-in at the Triple Tree Aerodrome in South Carolina.
An RV-8 takes off leaving a helical prop vortex behind him. Taken at the Triple Tree Aerodrome, Woodruff, SC.
The Triple Tree Aerodrome BT-13 takes off for the morning wake-up flight. The conditions were just right for the prop tip vortex helix to show up.
Nothing beats a wakeup call from the sound of prop tips going supersonic followed by a cannon shot from the military vehicles club. This happens every morning at Triple Tree during the Fall fly-in.
Three Cessna 150's perform an evening formation flyover at Triple Tree Aerodrome. The Cessna 150 group seemed to have more fun than everyone and flew every evening, sometimes with the doors off for fun.
Joe Nall 2015 event, held in Woodruff, South Carolina, at Triple Tree Aerodrome, May 9-16. Photos by Jenni Alderman
The Triple Tree Aerodrome BT-13 (the Vultee Vibrator) roars by for the daily 7AM wakeup fly-by. Pat Derrick is at the controls for this traditional start to every day at the Triple Tree fly-in.
The CAF Curtiss C-46 "Tinker Belle" arrives at the Triple Tree Aerodrome fly-in. September 2014. She and the P-51 that came with her did a few demonstration flights during the week.
A shot from the end of runway 3, just over the trees a few seconds from touchdown. It was a beautiful day, as were most of them. The parking areas off tot eh left filled up quickly and the camping areas in the trees were the favored spots due to the shade.
Taken from the right seat of a Just Highlander STOL amateur built aircraft.
I am recommissioning the Suzuki TS50 that I have owned from new in 1976, and that I imported to the UK from South Africa in 2009. On the evening of Monday, October 8, 2012 I worked on the switchgear electricals, and removed the handlebars and instrument cluster. I also made a major cock-up. I thought that all four handlebar mounting bolts strewed directly into thread on the yoke. This was the case, but I didn't realise that the front pair also had an additional nut on the bottom of the yoke that secured the intrument cluster mounting bracket. I simply thought that they were super tight and applied spanner pressure, shearing the beautiful old bolts. I managed to get the sheared thread out of the yoke using a second nut tightened to the remaining stub of thread, and ordered replacement NOS bolts from CMS in the Netherlands. Sadly, they're not of the same quality as the 1976 originals, but such is life. I live and learn!
A group of four RV's taxi in from their overhead break-to-landing at the Tailwheel and Fabric fly-in at Triple Tree Aerodrome.
The RV series of aircraft are amateur-built experimental category aircraft frequently built by the pilots.
I am recommissioning the Suzuki TS50 that I have owned from new in 1976, and that I imported to the UK from South Africa in 2009. On the evening of Monday, October 8, 2012 I worked on the switchgear electricals, and removed the handlebars and instrument cluster. I also made a major cock-up. I thought that all four handlebar mounting bolts strewed directly into thread on the yoke. This was the case, but I didn't realise that the front pair also had an additional nut on the bottom of the yoke that secured the intrument cluster mounting bracket. I simply thought that they were super tight and applied spanner pressure, shearing the beautiful old bolts. I managed to get the sheared thread out of the yoke using a second nut tightened to the remaining stub of thread, and ordered replacement NOS bolts from CMS in the Netherlands. Sadly, they're not of the same quality as the 1976 originals, but such is life. I live and learn!