iRide.2020.02.27 UFO

Strava, my ride-tracking app, misfired today. That's unusual on the ground. Unusual in the sky was a UFO that had a strange fuselage shape and seemed to be powered by a giant hand-dryer. Following a search on the Internet, tentative identification is for a Republic RC-3 Seabee sports aircraft built in 1946 and registered to a company in Wilmington, Delaware. I thought it was a jet, but there is a propeller behind the cabin. An amphibious aircraft operating in the arid lands of the southwest is an unusual sight.

The putative Seabee, seen in the bottom-right frame of the collage and in the feature photo, made its approach to the Gen. Dick Stout Field across the horse pens at the north end of the runway, which made an ironic contrast. The other plane, seen in the top-right frame of the collage is a much more conventional aircraft that I have seen and photographed a few times over the past couple of years. 

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