Atis "tango" was advertising 43 degrees C when we landed Sunday afternoon. Although I'm "mathematically challenged" I think that works out to about 110 degrees F, which might explain the eerie quiet on the Lunken tower frequency. David Zombek had just flown an outstanding private pilot check ride in the 172. He'd worked running Wright-Patterson Air Force Base recently "vaporized" the base's military aero club - the oldest in the country; Dayton's Phillipsburg Airport is for sale - airplanes, buildings and all - for $550,000; and today, when I landed at or flew over fields at Moraine, New Lebanon (Dahio), Brookville, Versailles and Mad River, Ohio, they looked like ghost towns.
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