Condition Inspection 2010

So, we’re busily doing our Condition Inspection. We’re also getting our air cleaner box installed, and will check that the air bypass door doesn’t open at full power once we get our in-motion coverage back on Monday. We’ll also be getting our transponder recertified and pitot/static calibration by CF Airtronics on Monday. Finally we’ll need to […]

APRS Ham Radio Tracking of Aircraft

OK, so this is seriously cool. My buddy Mark pointed this out to me, and I think it’s great. I’d been looking at this Kenwood radio ever since I got my Ham license, but knowing that you can hook it up to an AvMa G5 and track other (aprs equipped) airplanes in flight is too cool for school. Since Mark will […]

Engine Annual 2010

Time for our Annual (condition inspection). Ray, our tech counselor, came over with this compression checker and we checked each cylinder. Next, we cleaned each plug and pulled the fuel injectors and filter screens and put them in the ultrasonic cleaner with some Hoppe’s gun cleaner (recommended by our engine shop). Next we checked all of […]

Dave Spano Upholstering, Part II

Today Dave started installing the headliner… For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur. Quis aute iure reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum […]

Funday Sunday 2010

This weekend was kind of a washout, literally and figuratively. It poured in town all weekend, and Sunday was consumed with EAA48’s Funday Sunday and a Chapter 974 meeting. I have gotten most everything on the GRT up and running properly, calibrated the fuel level probes and the like. I’m still having a small issue getting the Trio Pro […]

Builder Data Plate II (builder dataplate)

After we painted the airplane, and I saw this style dataplate on my buddy Mark Riley’s airplane, I had to upgrade to it. It’s a custom Velocity data plate, engraved with our information! I’ve added another view where hopefully you can read the entries. We set our gross weight to 3,100 lbs, though we don’t […]