Whew! I'm glad it's Friday! After a busy week, the weather looks great for a flying weekend. A few of the Morningstar folks are flying out to Sully for breakfast tomorrow morning. As I type this, Brian is on his way to Cedar Rapids to hook up with a couple guys who just brought a Stearman home with them. Brian will be giving them both flight instruction. They bought the silver #88 Stearman, who you may know used to be hangared in Cedar Rapids and belonged to Steve Redman, a dear friend of ours who we miss very much.

As for me, I took some pictures of old Lycoming 0-435 parts we had laying around. That's about as close as I get to engine work. They're now posted on ebay with hopes to clear some clutter out of the hangar. The parts original came with the Stinson (or the Stinson came with the parts, depending on how you want to look at it). But, if - and that's a big if - we restore the Stinson, we'll put a much meatier engine on it. Hmm... I wonder how a radial on a Stinson 108 would look?

Have a great weekend!