Well, we’re firmly ensconced in Camp Schoeller whiling the morning away. Oshkosh, baby, 2008 edition! 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 […]
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Controlled flight into a rock quarry. The experimental airplane flew through a 100 foot deep rock quarry at high speed at an estimated altitude of 20 to 30 feet above ground level. One witness said he waved at the airplane as it flew directly toward him then banked away from his bulldozer and pitched up […]
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Interesting article in this month’s Kitplane’s Magazine (local) about using short-wave HAM radio to track your aircraft online. SWEET! Where do I sign up? Seriously, this sort of thing is right in my wheelhouse. Here’s a good website (local) describing how it works, but I’ve ordered the hardware and will be setting this up as soon […]
Read MoreOK, some good news for a change. The fixes and changes are finally completed, and we (Beth) flew tonight. It’s been a long two week outage, and we’re getting ready to depart to Oshkosh on Friday, so it was particularly sweet to see her back in the air. So, how’d it go? Well, sort of a mixed […]
Read MoreOMG. Could this take any longer? Seriously. We started putting things together last night, and BINGO, the factory trim spring blasts the back of the radio. I guess my idea of “slightly left of center” and the factory’s don’t match up very well. This brings up a point that I reflect on more and more […]
Read MoreWell, we’ve been down a week now, and we’re still not ready to fly. We’re adjusting the new toe-brake system, and still have some work on the factory trim system, and then we can start putting things back together. Hopefully another couple of days will finish it up. We’ll see.
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