My buddy Keith wanted to pick up some tailkit parts for the -7 he is building. We were out having lunch on this past Sunday afternoon and were trying to work out a time when we could go to Wisconsin and pick them up. We were looking at our schedules and trying to make plans when Keith was like, how about we just go right now?! So we did! What better way than to hop in the -10 and make an adventure out of it! We drove back to the hangar and departed at about 230pm local time, 3.5 hours later we arrived at 5K6 (Wilmot, Wisconsin), met Doug and his nephew Joey, gave them a ride, packed up the gear then headed home. We flew over beautiful clouds that spanned nearly the entire route. Flying near clouds is one of the most enjoyable things to me.
The reflection off the wing gets really hot! Keith made a make shift hat and I kept laughing every time I would glance over at him. We need to get this plane painted! We have some sticky sun shade things but I couldnt find them in flight. Will have to make sure they are more accessible next time :)
We left Wisconsin and enjoyed some beautiful night flying near the end of the trip. We flew back at 11,500 feet and near the second half of the flight we equipped oxygen masks for better visibility of the stars and also just to feel better since we were doing about 7 hours round trip at pretty high altitudes. We got back at 10:30pm. It was a great time and one more example of why it rocks to own such a great traveling machine!