I only worked a few hours Friday night, had Saturday night off, and the wx looked fine Saturday, so I got going as early as I could and took the "El" out to O'Hare to get a bus to Rockford, where some folks I know from a Cessna 120/140 forum were to pick me up and bring me home to visit with them at their airport-side home at C77 over in Poplar Grove.
While waiting for the bus at KORD, I spied this bunny catching some rays, undeterred by the sparrows who were not keen on having him there, apparently. A hare at O'Hare... sounds like the title of a Bugs Bunny short.
Lorraine and her husband Ken, co-presidents of the Int'l Cessna 120/140 Assoc. and airline pilots (he flies for NW and she for United), are really nice homey folks who I must say are living
my dream life... here's their "garage". Not too shabby...
A lousy pic, I know, but I wanted to show the proximity to the runway (second strip of pavement seen here from their humble living room).
I was their overnight guest, and got a free meal and... well, some other perks. More on that later.
Ken's father, who used to fly propliners for AA and is also a fine unassuming guy, was visiting from Dallas (came over on the same bus with me from KORD, in fact) to assist with one of the family projects: a Culver Cadet restoration. I thought about posing them for a nice cheesy portrait, but when I caught them in their more natural state, I thought this was better.
By this morning when I left them, they had fitted the firewall and were trying to sort out how the fuel tank gets mounted. These folks are unstoppable!
I've been promised a ride in this honey... can't wait!!
The family's "company jet", which they use for flights in the "Bonanzasphere" as they call the middle cruise altitudes.
If this impresses you, consider that they used to own a Spartan!!
Next: part 2: Cessnas, etc
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