End of an Era

As we prepare for Airventure 2016, we do so with a heavy heart. We’re starting to close the book on the journey we started 15 years ago. It’s been a good run, but we’re listing our beloved 44 Victor Fox for sale. We have struggled with this choice for months, and I’ll try to explain […]

Getting ready for 2016 flying season

We’ve had a low start to the 2016 season, but we’re getting rolling now. I’d meant to do my annual condition inspection last fall, but had held off thinking we might send our MT prop back go Germany for overhaul, which I ended up not doing. This year’s edition included changing the batteries in our 406 ELT, […]

More Brake Bleeding

The brake on the Velocity seem to cause everyone heart ache. We got rid of our parking brake a while back because it made it even harder. The new Cleveland brake system has 2 master cylinders on each side of the airplane, run in series, which run to a common reservoir. This is convenient from […]

Condition Inspection Change Tracking

It seemed like a good idea to track the compression checks across the cylinders by year so we can see if there are any substantial changes. Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 2017 2016 75 74 76 73 76 75 2015 2014 74 74 74 75 74 74 2013 76 73 75 75 76 […]

2015 – N224SM – Terry Mueller – Velocity XL/RG – Moultrie,GA – 0

Terry reports that, on a recent flight, his gear retracted after riding over a bump in the pavement. This aircraft had a previous accident also. This past weekend I did some flying as usual to Tifton GA for work. Saturday took a short flight to Spence field in Moultrie GA to take in a car […]

We lose Carlos

We got the sad news today that our canard-loving friend Carlos had finally lost his on-again off-again battle with cancer. Some day I hope none of will have to count the loved ones we’ve lost to cancer, but not today. Carlos was such a sweet, honest, and good-natured man with a deep desire to help […]