Trip From PA to Oregon

My Dad and I bought this 1974 Sportavia-Putzer RF5B from a old friend Bruce Conrad. It was based at New Garden Airport 40 miles NW of Philadelphia, PA. It needed a new engine and we installed a new Limbach 1700. It took two days to change the engine and do the annual inspection. Then we started on our flight home. My friend Ken flew back with me. 27 hours of flight time, 6 days.

Ken, Bruce and Rick helping to a install new Limbach 1700 before we can leave to Oregon. Friday May 22 2009. New Garden Airport

Getting ready for the test flight with the new engine. May 23 2009

Packed and stuffed for the first leg to Pittsburgh. May 24 2009

Getting ready to leave.

Low clouds for the first three days.

Leaving Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. We where here for a half a day and stayed the night fixing a electrical problem. Rudy (also a RF5B owner) helped fix the electrical problem and found a hanger. May 25 2009

Delaware Ohio, May 25 2009

Delaware Ohio, May 25 2009

Warsaw, Indiana The airport was closed so my friend brought some auto gas. I also think this is where I got food poisoning. May 25 2009

Warsaw, Indiana. May 25 2009

My friend's house. Argos, Indiana

Ames, Iowa we were stuck here a day for weather.(this is where my shoe is, it did not stay on the wing) May 26 2009

University of Iowa

Iowa, May 26 2006

Lots of towers and windmills!

Ainsworth, Nebraska

Wyoming May 27 2009

Casper, Wyoming We stayed the night. The FBO tried to charge $320 overnight fee. The dumb girl thought we had a Golf Stream that only took 6 gallons of gas.