[VIDEO] Velocity N44VF Landing Practice

Check out the prettiest plane in America as she practices take-offs and landings. I captured a couple of different angles this time out.

Working up to Rough River 2011

Elizabeth’s been out of town quite a bit since we got back into the air, so she went out to get comfortable in the plane this weekend and get a few more of our “5 hours” of flight testing that’s probably required for our probably major changes over the winter. It happens that my company […]

[Picture Album] Victor Fox model

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Getting a Victor Fox model

A few weeks back we got some bids for a mahogany model of our airplane. These are available pretty afford-ably with a generic white paint scheme (via eBay), but we wanted our paint on it. There are a couple of places that do this, I think all in the Phillipines, and it takes awhile, but we’re pretty […]

Myrtle Beach (non-flying) vacation

We just returned from a week at Myrtle Beach, and we didn’t fly. I wasn’t going to post about it at first, but this is exactly the kind of vacation the plane would be perfect for. Yes, we should get an instrument rating, and yes, we didn’t have the 5 hours of “major change” test […]

MT Propeller ordered

In our continuing saga to get a constant-speed propeller, we’ve finally made our deposit on the MT, and gotten a tentative shipping date of 11/04/11. The prop is the MTV-9 (MTV-9-B/LD178-102a to be exact) with a Aero Technologies PCU5000X governor and P-622 spinner, with our custom paint. We going with American Propeller again since they […]