The 2026 Mark Smith Memorial Fly-in

Well, I said in my last post that I was going to the Posey Patch airfield in Posey County Indiana to attend the 2026 Mark Smith Memorial Fly-in...and I'm here! I have been here for 8 days already, assembling my Quicksilver MX and getting her flight worthy. I completed the process of assembling the airframe in about 5 days from tubes in the trailer to 98% completion. It took another 2 days to straighten out the remaining 2%. On Thursday (yesterday) I took my first solo flight since my dead-stick landing in the grass field in October 2026, chronicled here on January 2007.  I made 2 flights for a total of about one and a half hours!

I had great fun, but today the weather is rainy with breaks. I'm going to wait for better weather to get more flying in!

Here I am again!

 Good day all. I remember the days when I used to chronicle my flying stories right here on this blog. It's hard to believe that I first started doing it 20-plus years ago!

The dream to fly is still there! In fact, I am leaving next week to go to the Summer fly-in at the late Mark Smith's Posey Patch in Mt. Vernon, Indiana...and guess what? I'm taking the disassembled pieces of my Quicksilver MX which is the same aircraft featured in this blog! All the pieces are loaded in my trailer and I'm leaving a week early to try to get it together so I can fly once again!

Of course I'll post pics of the whole thing right here. I suppose most of anybody who might have ever read this blog have long moved on to more exciting things but maybe, if nothing else, I can document things just for myself and my family.

Hope all is well with those who read this and I'll hope to be back soon!