Hangar

Hangar

I couldn't decide whether to write about the Horizontal Stabilizer, or about Mike's "Man Cave," but decided the hangar might be more interesting.

We have a dirt-floor hangar out on the farm where we live. We keep the KitFox2 there during spring-summer-fall. Then for the winter months, Mike flies it to our hangar at the local airport, where we always keep the RV7, pictured below. The RV7 is strictly a runway airplane--no field landings.  

Mike tries to find every excuse possible to spend time in his Man Cave with his airplanes. There are a good number of other hangars at the local airport and are similarly "man caves." Mike hopes that when he retires, there will be enough activity that the pilots can form an "old farts" club and hang out, drinking coffee and shooting the breeze--when they're not out flying somewhere!

The summer we built the hangar, we hosted a hangar party and invited our flying friends. It was early August, right before harvest. We had a potluck, drank home-brewed beer, and watched the sun go down. We should do it again. 


This picture was taken just after we returned from our flight to Saskatchewan in July of 2013. It was sure great to put the RV7 to bed, hop in the car and drive home.

Do you, or does your husband, have a man cave? What kinds of things does he do in his?



Comments

  1. MelindaApril 9, 2014 at 6:22 PM

    Pretty cool!
    I have a "girl cave" aka: my sewing room.
    Mr. Ken has the basement and weight room.

    M : )

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  2. Carol ZApril 9, 2014 at 7:12 PM

    This is really interesting. No husband, so no man cave and I guess, the entire apartment is my retreat. Visiting from #atozblogging

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  3. Nana PrahApril 10, 2014 at 3:53 AM

    A hangar anniversary party would probably be fun. Or just a hangar celebration for no reason.

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  4. Sharon HimslApril 10, 2014 at 11:38 AM

    That hanger party was fun :)
    Shells–Tales–Sails

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