Up, up, and away

This was a busy weekend. (shocker huh?) Stefan's god-son had turned 11 a while ago and our gift was a 'mystery day'. Meaning this weekend we took him to a Flug Tag - flight day, for a local model airplane club that Stefan was a member of for so many years. Ruven had a blast and has totally caught the model-plane bug! Before we left we bought him a little model helicopter he'd been eying and for the 3 hours after we returned to his house he and Stefan figured out how to operate the thing.....I think the present was as much for Stefan as it was for Ruven!

We watched all of the models take flight sessions, saw some special guests, like a real glider did low fly bys and loops and landed smoothly, a ultra-light flown by two people swooped in and landed, several low flys by a cool looking helicopter, and at the very end several people mounted their hang-gliders and ran off the hill into the air. That was only day one! We didn't drive back down for day 2, but we suspect that Ruven may have roped his dad into taking him to day 2, complete with real antique planes arriving and doing stunts and so on.

I have to say I wasn't too excited to do this for an entire day, but it was actually pretty cool! My dad and brother would have been in heaven (I should also say the male/female ratio there was nowhere near equal...ha ha!). The models we saw were really massive and there were tons of models with real jet engines - built entirely to scale, crazy! It was like being at a real air show, except the planes were smaller and the pilots couldn't die.

There are some super cool things in these pictures that should be noted, but I don't want to go on forever here. I will create a page on our website that explains it all and post a link here on the blog later. I know we have a few plane-geeks that will want to know ; )