August 14, 2021 - AllenAirport, NJ Pancake Breakfast
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This morning Chuck and I were winging our way east, then northeast to a private grass strip called Allen Airport for a pancake breakfast. It's just east of Flying W airport, in New Jersey, east of Philly. I heard about the pancake breakfast through this periodic email I get from FunPlacesToFly.com. Always looking for a new thing to do so off we went.
Over the Eastern shore, we passed by this big facility -- it turns out it is Odessa High School. Wow, pretty nice. It's a public school.
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We flew over a low layer over the Delaware Bay. But the condensation from the nuclear power plane is breaking through.
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| Overhead Allen Airport. We were landing to the west on the slightly less than 2,000 foot grass runway. The trees are to the east so I would have to use some pilot skills on this landing. But I made one of my better landings. |
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The main building was interesting. It was a combination mess hall, dance hall and museum! Here, we are in the breakfast line. Kitchen on the left, server on the right.
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| Inside the building within the building, enjoying a delicious breakfast. Notice the long guns decorating the walls. |
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| Looking across the dance floor at the museum area. |
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| A stage for the live music. |
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Exciting the main building to the ramp area.
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The only other RV at the pancake breakfast was one I recognized. A year and a half ago, Mugsy and I flew into Dave's private strip south of Millville. Link. Dave was nearing completion on this very nice RV-6 at the time. Well, he did finish it and here it is.
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| Chuck and I both really like this headset hangar gizmo Dave built. |
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Although not a large amount of planes were on hand, there was quite an assortment.
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| A big Navion. |
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| We checked out the big green hangar; a sorts of treasures were inside. |
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| A big orange and yellow Stearman with a Cub on its right. |
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| A little Pitts. |
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An antique fire truck, which really is a truck.
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| Early-model Corevette with a Citabria (?) fuselage in the background. Notice the old street car behind the Vette! |
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There was even a hot air balloon on hand.
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| A Slipstream Genesis ultralight. This variant is called a Revelation and is a two-seat trainer. |
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| Chuck used to own and fly a Challenger ultralight like this one. It's one of the more successful ultralights, with over 3,570 built. |
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| The Challenger taxiis out. |
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We enjoyed talking with the pilot of this Trike.
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The entrance to Allen Airstrip.
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| A newly restored DeHavilland TigerMoth. |
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| The Navion taxiis to the other end of the runway. |
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I looked down and saw this nice public grass strip called Vineland-Downstown Airport. It's primarily a duster field I think. You can get fuel there.
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| Looking down the Maurice River by Millville, NJ. |
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The extensive salt marches by the mouth of the Maurice River on Delaware Bay.
We enjoyed the pancake breakfast at Allen Airport and the flight to and from, of course. Back at Essex Skypark, I put a few hours in on the RV-10 project.
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