August 10 – Cross Country Fly Day

Fly Days

August 10, 2016: This cross country flight from my airport in Benton Harbor (KBEH) Michigan, was a little different than normal.  I flew over to Philips Field (KMGC) in Michigan City Indiana to rendezvous with my flight buddy who was flying to Rochelle Municipal airport (KRPJ) in Illinois to attend a luncheon.   This was our first time flying a long distance  together, him in his Piper J-3 Cub and me in the Clown plane which is a Cessna 150c.  Generally he is flying a  Piper Warrior and the one having to fly slower  to stay with me.  Today though “We” were “cruising” at 80 mph ALL THE WAY THERE and BACK…. It was exhausting but fun, sort of, and I did save a lot of avigas because of it.   Flying that slow enabled me to take some nice shots of Thornton Quarry as we passed over it on the way home.

J-3 Cub over Illinois Mr. Dave in his J-3 Cub over Illinois

Thornton Quarry Illinois
Thornton Quarry in Illinois is one of the worlds largest aggregate quarries in the world. It was formed when the Michigan Basin was covered in sea water more than 400 million years ago and  resulted in a 300 million -year old source of limestone.  As a side note, the pool of water  top left is part of the Chicago “Deep Tunnel Project” and is capable of holding 9 billion gallons of flood water.  The multi lane road down the middle is I-94.