Love your photos...
Once I tried flying my old Nobler in virtually total darkness with those skinny foot really bright glow sticks that were used by the Boeing flight test group for wind tunnel vibration studies.
I was working the 2nd shift at the time....and after getting off work I would drive down to the back DC parking lot.
I would attach those glow sticks to the fuselage with rubber bands..
Pretty cool and lots of fun until after a few flights..the rubber bands got soaked with Testors 39 residue...then bands started slipping...and on the 3rd flight of the night....that glow stick parted company on one of the outside square portions of the Square horz. 8
Although it was only minutes...of flying blind using only the faint shadows on one side of the circle and using the sound of the engine...
was more than pleased...when that old Merco 35 finally ran out of fuel...and by pure luck I managed a pretty good landing in the dark.
The security guard drove up just as I was getting ready to leave and asked to see my badge. and then told me to get my butt into the car and go home or he would call the King County Police if I ever tried that stunt again.
