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Around the Field
Sunday in the park with Don...and Greg and Cindy
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t’s Sunday afternoon in the Vintage parking area, south of Phillips 66 Plaza. And although the sky is still a bit gray, the temps are very comfortable and the rain is holding off. A steady stream of beautifully restored and maintained vintage aircraft are taxiing into the grass down here. Lots of EAAers are already wandering up and down the rows enjoying the stunning planes.
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Don Dixon is sitting in a low camp chair under the wing of his bright yellow Piper Cub. Don and the Cub are from Aurora Municipal Airport (ARR), near Chicago. They flew into AirVenture 2013 that morning. He made the trip in one day. “It’s not that far. It was slow with a bit of a headwind. It was a little bumpy, and the ceiling was low. It was difficult to stay high enough off the ground and still below the clouds to make it through. But it wasn’t that bad.” Back home in Illinois he flies the Cub about 50 hours a year. “I do what you do in Cubs, which is you fly low and slow, and find grass strips.” This 65-hp, no-electrical-system
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Don Dixon and his 1944 Piper Cub.
Cub has an interesting history. “It was built in 1944,” Don says. “Like all Cubs that year it was built as an L-4. But it missed the war. It was sent to an Army Air Corp base in Alabama, and never got out of the crate. It was finally purchased in 1951 by the Minneapolis Civil Air Patrol, and flew as a CAP plane for a number of years. It got sold to somebody and ended up as a classic ‘barn aircraft.’ It was rediscovered in ’97, rebuilt completely. The engine was zerotimed. And I got it nine years ago and have had it since.” The Cub has its pros and cons. “It’s a very disappointing transport aircraft, but it’s a wonderful fun aircraft.” This is Don’s 12th trip to the fly-in. What changes has he seen over those years? “I’m more impressed by how the same it is. It’s just the same, wonderful place to be. “Where else would a pilot want to be?” He’s pretty relaxed about his plans for the week. “I don’t even know what’s on the schedule. I just come up and spend a few days. I have a friend who’s bringing his Piper PA-12 up tomorrow. We’ll spend some time together.” Don and company love checking out the warbirds. “We tend to take the same