The Fox leaves home without me

The Fox leaves home without me

We told you a few weeks ago we got our building buddy Jerry checked out by John from the factory in our plane. This weekend he and Linda are going to fly the Fox to see our other buddy Andy Millin. He just finished his 40 hour fly-off, and together with our other friend Mark will be trying […]

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New Pitch Trim Spring

New Pitch Trim Spring

I’ll try to get a picture of the new pitch trim spring, but it’s just like the last one except maybe twice or a little better as think, and much much stiffer. This is literally a half and hour change, just pull your current spring and use it as a guide to drill the holes […]

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New Pitch Trim Spring installed

Apparently the best kept secret in the Velocity community is that pretty much all of the XL’s need more pitch trim than the standard spring provides. We’d been dealing with this ever since our last (panel and interior) upgrade, where at pattern speeds the pitch trim ran out on final and we had to hold […]

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Flight School Closes!

Wow, this might be a serious set back. I just found out, minutes before my scheduled lesson, that my flight school has closed and sold their airplanes, yet another victim of the closure of the Blue Ash Airport. The owner of Blue Ash Aviation inexplicable decided to take the Warrior off the airport for a […]

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Flight Training Lesson 17 – To Sportys, not….

Today Pete and I both had things we wanted to pick up from Sporty’s Pilot shop, and since it’s local (at the Clermont County Airport), we decided we’d fly down there today and pick it up before they closed at 6. So, off we went, fat, dumb, and happy. As we setup for the downwind […]

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[Video] Cockpit video of flying to the Dayton Pilot’s club BBQ

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