The Flabob Flying Circus Fly-In
The annual Flabob Flying Circus Fly-in was held June 17-19 and a group
of us that get together monthly for lunch fly outs decided the would be a
good destination for our June gathering. The airport is tucked into a
carve-out of Riverside's Class Delta airspace and both are under
Ontario's Class C so getting in there requires good planning. Then to
cap off the arrival experience on downwind you find yourself flying
right at a rocky hill til you can't stand it anymore and voila a quick
left base to final and there it is. A good size line-up of magnificent
men and their two-winged flying machines were there for great photo
opportunities including our own Bob Simon and the picture perfect
D'Marie Stearman. Bob brought his grandson along for the day. Other
Antiquers included Steve and Stephanie Byers and their two-story Super
Cub. Some other friends joining from San Diego were Emidio Delconte in
his Kit Fox, Franck in his Grumman Tiger, Steve in his Bonanza and
others. The PT-22 3-ship flight out of Cable came in and entertained us
with multiple passes as did Stearmans, Cessna's, a Storch replica, Cubs
and even a low pass on departure by yours truly. This event is billed
as a fly-in and camp out but I didn't see a tent pitched anywhere my
guess being the heat and the fact that a lot of us old geezers consider
Motel 6 to be camping.