Donna Lane captures fly-in at Torchport (Gerry captures Donna)

The Torchport Fathers Day Fly-in had everything: sunshine, hosts Duane and Maryanne Jorgensen, lots of volunteers from the Traverse City Chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association, a pancake breakfast, and a whole lot of Fabulous Flying Machines.  Funds raised at the breakfast pay for NMC aviation scholarships and for teddy bears emergency personnel give to children who are hurt or frightened.  I didn’t see how I could go wrong, so there I was out in the sun taking pictures. 

Then I saw Donna Lane.  This was a stroke of luck, as Donna is a much better photographer than I am.

Both of us in the same place at the same time, I with my trusty Canon PowerShot, Donna with—well, whatever it is, hers is bigger—and we might as well be standing on different planets. I will not even show you my snapshots. Here are some of Donna’s photos.

OK, here’s one more from me.  This is Rod Christopherson, standing next to his homebuilt kit plane, a 100 hp RANS S6ES.  It has extra power and larger wings because he built it as a float plane.  I find that hard to imagine.  I’m working on a longer story.  More later.