I was lucky enough to get a new camera for my birthday. This little gem is made for snowboarding and the like, so it can really handle high light conditions, and won’t get overexposed when the airplane turns towards the sun. ContourHD mini camera (for awesome HD flight footage!)
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It doesn’t take long after you start calling your airplane 44-Victor-Foxtrot to become 4-Victor-Fox. If you say Victor Fox a few times, it starts to really sound like someone’s name. If you think about it too long, it starts to sound like a Fox’s name who’s just won something. Thus, the idea for our mascot […]
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No new pictures, but the wing-to-strake junction is good to go, and the wings will be coming back off soon. We have a little fiddling with the cowling do do yet. The new SS flex brake lines have replaced the nylaflow on the legs, and the reservoir has been moved under the nose hatch. Along […]
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We’ve managed to mount the defogger in the nose, but haven’t wired it yet. We also refilled the brake lines (after pulling a vacuum on it for a few days to degas the fluid). Also removed the old wheel, moved the tube and tire, shortened the wheel spacers (thanks Jerry) and reinstalled it with the new Nylon nut […]
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Here we’re de-oiling the belly. I’ll report back once we’re sure if this worked or not. Degreasing belly Belly prepped Paintbooth 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 […]
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Since we’ve decided to paint ourselves, we figured we needed a design. We’d talked with the folks from Air Graphics at Osh Kosh pretty much every year, so it was a natural fit to go back to them. We shared with them our initial thoughts and they worked up a few designs for us to comment on, and we […]
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