Saturday, June 25, 2011

Pictures from June 25th

We met in the hotel lobby at 6AM to go to the airport for our handi-cap flights
Briefing the handi-cap flights before we leave

Rebecca and Joyce - team #1 and two handi-cap flight pilots

Alison checks the oil before our handi-cap flight

An island in Mobile Bay on the climb out dring the handi-cap flight

Mobile under the clouds

Mobile Downtown airport - terminus for the race. Looks different from 4000 feet vs 300 feet!

An airforce plane taxis off our left wing

Barbara's in love - a husky sea plane in one of the hangars at Mobile

Inspectors open the cowling for our inspection as a potential top 14 finisher

All the paperwork must be accurate - see the log books sitting on the wing


The first Presbyterian church of Mobile - it's quite beautiful

Fried pickles on the menu!

Spent the afternoon at the battleship Alabama memorial parl and aviation museum

The Air Race CLassic partnered with the Boys & Girls clubs of South Alabama. Here are our baby birds with the two young ladies who followed their team

Rose Brown, Mary Wunder and their adopted young lady

Group photo of all the young ladies who attended the event today

The paparazzi

USS Battleship Alabama

One of the young ladies shows off her magnificently decorated t-shirt

Ended the day with dinner at Wintzell's oyster bar