Apparently Fred and a passenger (Manny Lewis) were practicing touch-and-go take-off and landings, and forgot to latch the door. They executed an emergency return to the airport, but forgot to deploy the landing gear, and bellied it in when they realized the mistake. The passenger door is the one departed from the airplane, so I […]
Read MoreMy “first flight” in my airplane… I apologize in advance for the tilted cockpit video, I didn’t rotate the lens fully… 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 […]
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This was the first year that we were able to work the Mid-Eastern Regional Fly-In (MERFI) into our schedule. It’s a shame, since it’s so close to us, but that’s the deal. We took the short flight a bit after lunch time and arrived at just exactly the wrong moment – just as the Sport […]
Read MoreJust a quick entry to note the passing of a legend, Paul Poberezny, founder of EAA. I had the honor and pleasure of spending an afternoon with him at KHAO for a Wing’s Weekend presentation. I found him to be a kind, humble, normal everyday kind of guy that loved airplanes as much or more […]
Read MoreFunny thing about having an airplane… you promise tons of folk’s rides, and you really mean it. But for some reason they mostly don’t happen. Well, there’s all sorts of reasons, when you’re at the airport you’re headed somewhere, and when you’re not, well, you’re not there. Folks aren’t going to call you when they’re at the […]
Read MoreWe’re getting a bit back in to the swing now that we’re more-or-less settled into the new house, and it looks like we have the old house sold finally as well. So this morning went went to breakfast at Urbana Grimes Field (which will be hosting MERFI shortly) with our local Chris and Penny in […]
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