Good quiz for the grandkids:
1. What is it called when the Earth comes between the sun and the moon?
2. What is it called when the Moon comes between you and the sun?
3. What is it called when the Earth comes between you and the sun?
Answers:
1. Lunar eclipse
2. Solar eclipse.
3. Night....
Ron Wanttaja
And when the sun comes between the moon and the earth....crispy critters.
A week without flying is like a day without sunshine.
And a day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
I flew my Cessna 172 (IFR) in the middle last solar eclipse in Australia about 10 years ago. You could see the shadow coming but it never got so dark you so could not see the horizon. It was an great one off experience often discussed by the 4 of us that flew that afternoon. So did anyone do it in the USA as the time has passed now.
As I write this, the start of the eclipse (Denver area) is still around 5 hours away.
Larry N.
Well, here in Omaha (98.77% eclipse) it was about like dusk. Never got what I would really call dark. I had planned to fly down to Falls City, NE for a total eclipse, but family matters got in the way. As it was, there was only the tiniest sliver of sun visible.
Measure twice, cut once...
scratch head, shrug, shim to fit.
Flying an RV-12. I am building a Fisher Celebrity, slowly.