Last night I finally got to fly the Waco for the first time this season.  It's been a long time coming, as spring hasn't really decided to "spring" as of yet here in eastern Wisconsin.  It's been cold, windy, rainy and just basically not very conducive to flying open airplanes so far this season, but last night things finally came around and it didn't take any convincing to get me headed over to the hangar.  I pushed the Waco out, fired it up and went for a beautiful ride!

There was some weather moving in from the west, but it was a beautiful evening around Oshkosh.  Clouds and rain could be seen in the distance, but there was plenty of time to get a nice flight in before the weather arrived.  So I pushed the throttle forward and the Waco responded by eagerly clawing for altitude.

Of course we didn't "claw" for long because open cockpit biplane flying is best served at low altitude.  I climbed up to about 1000 AGL and just enjoyed the evening.

So the season has officially started.  Let's hope that the weather continues to be friendly to open cockpit flying so that the Waco can get its exercise on a regular basis!