RAIN OPS: Push Crew, North 40 ????️????️????????

July 19, 2025 — 6:44 p.m. The B2OSH gaggle kissed the grass, throttles quiet, and Oshkosh exhaled. Then the sky changed its mind.

Fine needles of rain stitched silver onto the Bonanza’s wings until every rivet gleamed. Our blue B2OSH shirts darkened shade by shade as the call went out: “Hands on the spar—ready… push!”

The scene snaps into focus:— Palms flat along the wet leading edge, fingers well clear of ailerons, shoulders set like a scrum line.— Raindrops bead and race across the aluminum; a tiny GoPro blinks stoic on the right wingtip, capturing the whole muddy ballet.— Someone jogs past with bright yellow chocks on a rope like a lasso; another eyes the tire tracks to line up on the staked tie-downs.— Grass squelches under sneakers and boots; you can smell avgas, rain, and cut clover.— “Hold—rudder clearance… good! Walk it, walk it… push!”

The Bonanza V-tail (N8346D, a 1958 BEECH J35 ) is heavy—a beautiful kind of heavy that asks for teamwork. We move as one organism: wing walkers calling inches, a tail spotter guarding the VOR blade, a cockpit check through rain-speckled glass. The leading-edge tap, the micro-corrections, the soft grunt when the mains roll over a rut. Then: click—the mains settle exactly where we want them. Chocks in. Straps out. Stakes bite the earth.

In the last frames, the second ship (N57RB) eases into view—the one I flew in with Tim from LSE—nose glistening, prop ticking, that same rain-lit sheen. We trade nods in the downpour. No speeches. Just the quiet satisfaction that comes from putting an airplane to bed in a storm with your people.

“In formation we fly; in weather we arrive—because on the ground we push together.”

???? Mission Complete: Airplanes aligned. Tie-downs taut. North 40 humming. Rain still falling. Spirits way up.

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