Birthday Luggage

My brother Dave and his family got us some sweet Oakley luggage for our birthdays (mine is a couple of days prior to the Misses’, which keeps me from missing it, handily). They know we’re keen to take trips in the airplane, and this is a great size for a long weekend for two, and […]

[Picture Album] 2012 Velocity Midwest Dinner

Velocity Midwest Dinner January 20 2012 We had several couples Reiff and Melissa Lorenz (XL/RG Builders) Brett and Elizabeth Ferrell (XL/FG Flying) Chuck and Patricia Less (SE/FG Flying) Jerry and Linda Brainard (XL/RG Building) Tim and Lura-Beth Rhodenbaugh (XL/RG Flying) Bill Stockman (SE/FG Flying) Vaughn and Emma Pleasant (SUV/Flying) and their daughter and her husband […]

Flight Training Lesson 27, Night Cross Country

I’m back from vacation, and show is Pete (he’d flown to Florida in an RV-7 based on the field)… so, it was time to get in my required night cross-country. The days are getting shorter, so we were able to knock it out without being out too late. We took the relatively easy flight up […]

Painting the new nose pant

We had a nose pant quite awhile ago, but it met a sad end in a sub-par landing… Meet Rev 2.0… We have been flying with Andy’s nylon nut for some time, and because of it can run quite a bit of compression on our anti-shimmy Belleville washers. Hopefully that will be enough to keep us from […]

Installing the SkyRadar-D ADS-B

One of our purchases this year was the Radenna SkyRadar-D, for dual band. We already had the Garmin GTX330ES, the ES giving us ADS-B out capability and TIS in, but we had been using a WxWorx reciever for our weather information into the GRT EFIS. That worked really well, and actually has a bit better radar resolution (at least […]

Nose Pant 2.0

Here we go again. Nose pants are notorious in Velocity circles for getting chucked off for various offenses. I can only hope we can spare this one. Jerry has set up the paint booth in his shop to paint the underside of N202VB, so he was kind enough to shoot this too. I’m hoping to […]