Update 1: Congratulations to Tom and Loretta Irion for winning the Gold Lindy. Warning: This page is picture-heavy and will take quite awhile to load…. Oshkosh Airventure 2015 started off with a bang for us, literally. I hit something with the prop the day before we planned to pack for the show, and took a nasty nick in […]
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UPDATE 1: So, the consensus was that it’s probably best not to fly right now. Scott at the factory gave us some advice on how to repair it, but I didn’t have time to do that before we wanted to leave, and since we’ll see MT (and all of the other prop dealers/shops)… we’ll probably […]
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Just a quick update to say that we’re T-minus 5 days to Oshkosh 2015. We’re planning on flying in with, and rooming near, the Rileys again this year, with a planned arrival midday Saturday. Look for us in Homebuilt parking…
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Allen had a forced (road) landing due to blade failure. One blade gone could fail the 2nd, I’ll agree – you can focus in on the only photo I took, it is attached – I’ll let Burrall, Allen and Craig discuss propeller failure modes…we haven’t seen Catto’s flying apart – one interesting thing was that […]
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Well, we’d planned to fly to the Vectron Dayton International Airshow today, but we got a hurricane… or rather the remnants of a tropical depression, and it’s raining, and raining, and raining. Sometimes you just can’t get a break. For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt […]
Read MoreA funny thing happened on the way to flying with my autopilot… a LED burnt out. Not a big deal, and they said they’d never seen one ‘just fail’ like mine did – they’d seem them blow up from over voltage, but those always show signs of abuse, and mine didn’t. Lucky me. No worries, […]
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