www.PSFmagazine.com | November/December 2021 | 23 22 | November/December 2021 | Powered Sport Flying Some of the trikes of Trikefest Left and Below: The Flightdeck Bar and Grill at Rochelle Airport Weight Shift Control Trikes he cut away at 10,000 feet. It was somewhere within five miles of the airport, which was surrounded by endless miles of corn and soybean crops three to five feet tall – so finding it was a long, long shot. But Ken and Deb Sutz of Georgia decided to give it a try, spotted it after about an hour and a half of searching, came back (after collecting it with a land vehicle) and collected their $500 cash, which they immediately donated to the Trikefest benevolent fund. The following day, a skydiver was accidentally sucked out of an ascending jump plane at 3000 feet, and was hooked on the tail. She cut away her main and pulled her reserve, but was severely injured in the process, and went down out of control, miles from the airport. Again, the trikes were asked if we could help in an effort to find her. We spotted her three miles west of the airport, about a half mile out into a bean field, barely moving, but thankfully alive. We flew the trike down low enough to read the closest street signs and radioed that back to the jump center, who conveyed that to the paramedic team that was already out looking for her. She had broken ribs and a broken shoulder, but eventually made a full recovery. We also had fireworks, a band, and the airport has a pretty cool bar and grill restaurant on the field called the Flightdeck that is within a short walk. This coming summer, the plan is to hold the PreOsh Trikefest at Cushing Field Airport again (its been at Cushing 15 out of the 20 times–65 miles sw from Chicago) on July 22 and 23, 2022. Cushing is an old farm that was converted to a country airport in the 60s and is a lot more casual than Rochelle. You can camp anywhere on the grounds (except on the runway) and we (A&M Airsports) take care of the coffee/donuts and a bbq , so people don’t have to worry about starvation, but donations are appreciated! Other than that, we’ll just be hanging out, catching up with old ‘bar-fly’ buddies, talking about how much better we are than the ‘stick-heads,’ and just winging it, as usual.• Ken and Deb Sutz, the happy winners of the $500 reward The happy owner of the recovered parachute Bud Cushing giving a brief presentation on the history of aviation and Cushing Field Krucker Cygnet owned by Cranwill Joseph
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