Airport Saunter

UC Davis is the only University of California campus with its own airport. It is in West Campus, an area mostly devoted to agricultural research, with many fields and orchards. Usually the airport is off-limits to the general public, but today was its third annual open house. We missed the previous open houses, but we were able to make today’s, so we had a good wander among the planes, the old cars, and ancient bicycles (there was even a 19th-century velocipede on display).

My favorite plane was this Grob G109 motorglider, which has an impossible-to-sketch huge wingspan, not to mention a 30:1 glide ratio.