May 7-9, 2010- Palm Springs Gathering of Mentors
Saturday Morning Flying

Saturday morning dawned with clear skies and calm winds. It looked like it would be a great day for flying. We met up at the hotel breakfast bar for breakfast at 7, then headed to the Palm Springs Air Museum for a formation procedures meeting and to brief the first flight of the morning. We all took off as a group before heading separate directions in flights of 3 to 4 aircraft. I flew in the back of Marc Russell's T-34 in the lead with David Easton, Darren Moore and Brett Austin in the formation. We flew to Thermal Airport for gas first. Once we filled the tanks, we flew around the area doing formation breaks and rejoins and different formation configurations. We then headed back to Palm Springs, performing a few fly bys for the museum visitors and staff.