Final photos from Bahama trip. Home safe.


Our last sunset walk on the beach
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Our last view of Harbour Island before the short-cut of 225 miles across open ocean.
Our last view of Harbour Island before the short-cut of 225 miles across open ocean.jpg

Notice the clouds?
We started off below (headwinds) - then went above (had a tailwind, but could also see the line of thunderstorms) - found a hole for back down below, then around, and through.
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Customs was a breeze, but Kitfox's still take a back seat (or back of the line) to the jets passing through.
After dropping off our wives in Tampa to airline home - we took a little longer route to visit our business associates, and Kitfox builders & owners.
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After escaping the 100 miles of fog around College Station Texas @ 500' - our excuse was we still needed to stay low to avoid the headwinds over the wide expanse of West Texas & eastern New Mexico.
After escaping the 100 miles of fog around College Station Texas @ 500' - our excuse was we stil.jpg

Long way between fuel stops - the bladder didn't make it. I saw this unmarked one - that will work.
Long way between fuel stops - the bladder didn't make it. I saw this unmarked one - that will w.jpg


Just outside Durango CO - still looking UP from our preferred vantage point. Fourteen'ers in the background.
Just outside Durango CO - still looking UP from our preferred vantage point. Fourteen'ers in the.jpg

Skirting Arches National Monument near Moab UT.
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Interesting geologic formations - it's much colder now (or maybe we're no longer used to it).

Stopped in to see Mark Pringle @ West Desert Airpark (UT99). He flies & does high-quality builds of the Rans S-7 (and has done a Kitfox). A nice flying-club atmosphere - Kitfox's are welcome if your in the neighborhood (he has a mogas pump). This put us in position for straight run to Boise on the west side of the great Salt Lake, and it's airspace - except for a huge restricted area.
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We called the military approach controller - and amazingly they let us through. Because the worsening weather and the headwinds kept us low - their big tethered barrage balloons within the deep valleys were used eliminate any radar blind spots. We saw numerous bombing ranges with real tank & plane targets.
We couldn't get over or through the last set of mountains due to rapidly dropping ceilings & sno.jpg


We couldn't get over or through the last set of mountains due to rapidly dropping ceilings & snow, so we went around.
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Stayed tuned, we'll head way south again next January - a different direction to a different set of islands. Please keep an eye on our web sites in the near futures as we produce some video's of our adventures.

Best Regards,

Stick & Rudder Aviation, a dba of Stick & Rudder, LLC.

Paul Leadabrand - managing member, flight instructor
Email: kitfox.training@gmail.com
208-477-1318

Web site: stick-rudder.com

P.O. Box 170891
Boise ID 83717