Well I spent the whole weekend (OK, not the whole thing, we saw Get Smart last night, but damn near 10-9 on Saturday) working on the plane. The good folks at the Lebanon Airport Maintenance shop got the plane back to us, and I busily tried to get it ready to fly. First we found […]
Read MoreI just heard that Jack Morrison has had an accident in his e-Racer, N345JM, and it has been lost (Jack’s recap–News Report). Happily Jack was able, in quite extreme circumstances to get her back to the runway, and was essentially unharmed. Jack’s plane was beautiful, and he’s always been so gracious to us, that it […]
Read MoreI blew my top today at the airport. It doesn’t happen very often, and I’m not proud of it. We’d been assured that our local shop had all of the parts they needed to put our fuel system back together today, and I’d done all of the work I needed to do in the evenings […]
Read MoreSo, we’re washing the fuel tanks to make sure we’ve gotten any debris out of them, as we keep having issues with junk getting to the fuel injectors. So, we filled one tank at a time and pumped it dry – into 5 gallon drums – and then strained the fuel through coffee filters. There […]
Read MoreDifferent day, different story. This time, we got the prop in operational order, went out for some testing, and after 2 passes plugged an injector. Now, I have to give huge props to my lady – Elizabeth handled it like a champ. I was on the ramp monitoring the frequency, and as she turned crosswind […]
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Well, well, well. The ups and downs life brings to you are THOROUGHLY on display today. The highest of highs the last two days, and today just the opposite. We were going to take N44VF out and stretch her legs, and we’ve found a good-sized slice in our prop, about midway in the length. No […]
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