Dave Purdin's Powered Parachute Fly-In

Peebles, Ohio - 2006

August 25, 26 & 27

    Mickey gave rides to several young parachute jumpers at the fly-in.  They chose to ride sideways in the rear seat in order to make exiting the plane a little easier. 

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          Dave Purdin held his 5th Annual Powered Parachute Fly-In in Peebles, Ohio.  Mickey (Trike) and Gretchen (TBird) flew over Friday afternoon with a stop over at Portsmouth to refuel.  They arrived to find that there were several parachutes and paragliders already flying around the area.   Doran Mitchell trailered his parachute and also arrived on Friday.  Darian Fields was also there with his powered parachute as well as his paraglider.  Close to 50 pilots had registered for the event.

    Steve Doll flew his trike over on Saturday.  However, he was dodging storms the entire way and had to make an unplanned stop in a field to wait one out. 

    The fly-in was located in a field next to an oval dirt racetrack.  Races were held late into the night all weekend.  All registered pilots received a chance to win a used car provide by Dave Purdin.  Four tickets were drawn.  Those four people then went to the race track where they drove the car as fast as they could for one lap.  The person with the fastest lap time won the car.

    It began raining Sunday morning and it lasted about three hours.  At that time, Steve, Mickey and Gretchen departed for Leon which is normally a two hour plus trip for the trikes.  However, they enjoyed a 30 plus mile per hour tailwind and they arrived back at Leon in one hour and twenty minutes.