I remember the time acrobatic pilot Dacy of Harvard took me flying

Add comment July 15th, 2009

This story today about the final lineup for the Rockford AirFest reminded me of the time Dave Dacy took me up in an open-cockpit plane. Dacy of Harvard and his Wing Walkers are part of the show.

It was maybe 15 years ago, and I lived in Harvard. I was using my Nikon camera with a long lens to take pictures of  cornfields from Hebron to Lake Geneva, Wis. My then-husband was thinking about getting cheaper electricity from Wisconsin to fuel a plant he worked at in Hebron, and he wanted aerials of the landscape.

Well, I’d eaten pizza an hour or so before. And the motion of the zooming in and out of the lens and Dacy banking to this side and that so I could get better pictures did me in. Anyway, I hurled into a coat I was carrying with me. Dacy was polite and tried to make me not feel too embarrassed. But I was.

Every time I hear about Dacy and his Wingwalkers making appearances at the Rockford air show or at the one in Janesville, Wis., I get dizzy all over again just thinking about the stunts they’re pulling.

Dave Dacy and the Wingwalkers