Rachel's latest ride...

[wwwarbird]

 Thanks to the generosity of "Leester" here on the forum I ended up with a nicely done Monokote finish Sterling F-94 "Starfire" model last fall. It hung on my wall waiting for a good home until just a couple weeks ago. I pulled it down and made up a new aluminum L/G for it, re-did the tailwheel wire, added a new set of wheels and a tank and then handed it off to 8 year old Rachel Sandberg just last weekend. During the past week Rachel and dad Keith mounted a spankin' new FP.25 on the nose and we all hit the field yesterday. Rachel did the maiden flight plus a few more and says it flies great!  

[wwwarbird]

 The "Starfire"...

[wwwarbird]

 Keeping "loose" between flights...

[wwwarbird]

 ...Rachel's "daily flier" lately has been the Shark 402 with a great running Fox .35...

[wwwarbird]

 The "Shark 402"...

[billbyles]

Rachel looks so cool out there flying...she seems to "own" the circle when she is flying.  Hope her interest remains at the current level for quite awhile.

[Mark Scarborough]

thats awesome,,
My daughter and I both started building Shark s too, Pat really put together a clean build on those,,

sadly ours never got finished,, working,, driving,, softball, all kind of got in the way,,,
but there is hope,, she just had a baby boy,,, now in about 4 years,,

[wwwarbird]

Rachel looks so cool out there flying...she seems to "own" the circle when she is flying.

 Yeah, she's gotten pretty comfortable out there this season. Here she decided to ditch the jacket mid-flight but then realized the "flying arm" sleeve wasn't quite going to work out. I didn't get any photos of some of her dancing in the circle during flights that was going on but like Keith said at that point, "maybe we all just take this stuff too serious!"

[Clint Ormosen]

I usually keep "loose" the same way. I can be found tumbling around the practice circles between rounds. 

Seriously, kids flying always make for cool pics! Nice job.

[wwwarbird]

I usually keep "loose" the same way. I can be found tumbling around the practice circles between rounds. 

 I thought maybe she learned it from Howard.

[john e. holliday]

She looks great and relaxed in those pictures.   Maybe a lesson to be learned.  Maybe also why my grandkids won't fly with me.  I get too serious at times.

[mike londke]

Very cool! Keep it up Rachel!