February 10, 2019 - Cape May with Mugsy
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| I wasn't planning on flying this Sunday but Mugsy called in the morning and said the weather was good, so it's on! We decided to head over to Cape May for lunch. Here we are winging our way east over the Delaware Bay. Cape Henlopen is in the background. |
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Quite a few planes flew in for lunch today at Cape May.
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| Lined up and waiting: for lunch. |
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| Facing towards the runway. Which is long and wide. |
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The building where the restaurant is located doesn't look like much. The Fixed Base Operator (FBO) is not in this building. They are located to the right (west) about a quarter of a mile.
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| Inside the Flight Deck Diner. I like the big model planes hanging from the ceiling. Mugsy and I closed them down -- they close at 2PM. After Cambridge, this is my favorite airport restaurant. Good food at a good price, which interesting things to see from the air on the way and in the vicinity. |
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| The original hangar one at NAS Wildwood, which was a dive bomber training base for the Navy in WWII. It is now a museum. But closed on Sundays surprisingly. Not a big deal -- I've been to the museum a couple of times already. |
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There is an aircraft boneyard here -- consisting of these twin-engine prop cargo planes, at least ten of them. I've been coming here for almost ten years now and I finally went over and looked at them. We couldn't get too close because of a fence but Mugsy was able to take the following great shots of them.
The plane is a de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou (designated by the United States military as the CV-2 and later C-7 Caribou). The Caribou is a Canadian-designed and produced specialized cargo aircraft with short takeoff and landing (STOL) capability. The Caribou was first flown in 1958 and although mainly retired from military operations, is still in use in small numbers as a rugged "bush" aircraft.
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These Caribous belong to Pen Turbo Aviation who converts them from piston engines to turbine engines and sells them.
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| I gotta think it would take a lot of work to bring these Caribous back to flying status. |
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Mugsy took all the previous Caribou pictures; here is the picture I took.
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| Across the street from the Caribous was a little Vietnam War museum. I didn't know it was there until now; had never heard anything about it. It was closed, but they had a bunch of stuff outside to look at. |
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We took off and then flew counter-clockwise around Cape May.
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| The sun was behind us lighting everything up nicely. |
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Not too many people on the beach in early February. Althought it really wasn't that cold.
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| A couple of Coast Guard cutters are just to the right of that water tower. |
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I wonder if this is a gun emplacement for a 16-inch gun in World War II. I know they had 16-inch guns on the Delaware side.
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| Following Mugsy up the Jersey Coast. |
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A couple of trucks on the sandy point.
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| Approaching Atlantic City. |
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| You don't hear too much about Atlantic City these days. |
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| President Trump once was a big player in Atlantic City, owning three casino properties: Trump Plaza, the Taj Mahal Casino Resort, and the Trump Marina. The Taj Mahal is now the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, seen here just to the left of The Ocean. The Trump Marina is now now operating as The Golden Nugget. The Trump Plaza has been closed since 2014. |
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Mugsy navigated his sailboat through that narrow channel this summer.
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The Water Club Hotel at Borgata at right and the Borgata Hotel and Casino to the left.
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| The Golden Nugget -- the old Trump Marina -- is in the foreground with Harrahs in the background. |
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The rest of Atlantic City doesn't look too good.
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Heading south into the sun.
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| Now heading west, about to cross Delaware Bay again. Mugsy and I split up once we reached Delaware and dry land. |
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