Sunday, September 2, 2012

Caproni day 9/1/12 at Hollister

Today was the Caproni's day.  A very elegant, two-place side-by-side, 20m wing span, Italian designed all metal high performance(45:1) sailplane of which only 100 were built!  After the annual inspection it is always exciting to take the first flight.  The glider is owned and flown by Pedro de la Serna Sr, at the wing tip, and his son Pedro Jr. in the cockpit with Flight Instructor Charlie Hayes ready to be towed aloft:




Here is a nice sequence of pics showing the smooth landing!




After a series of flights we posed for pics:

Couldn't resist adding this one taken 3/11 of three generations with the Caproni:

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