The Crew at Flabob Airport

Flabob Airport is the small airport in Riverside, CA where my father built his Sonex airplane. Though my Dad has a reputation for being an original, there are actually many people out there who are a lot like him. During a recent meeting of their chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association, they featured Dad's recently completed plane as the Plane of the Month. They were the first ones to know that something was wrong (when Dad didn't return on time, and they saw that the airplane was gone and his car was still there), and the first to leap to help him by calling local airports and authorities to try to find out what happened, pulling his car and bicycle into the hangar, figuring out where the plane was and arranging to bring it back to the hangar, too, and finding him that first night in Inland Valley, before they transferred him to Kaiser and before the severity of his injuries was manifest. I hope someday soon I can get out there and meet them, and find someway to thank them for the human fellowship they demonstrated towards my father both before and after the accident.